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Jockey Club Launches Racehorse Injury Database

The Jockey Club has launched the Equine Injury Database system that will provide the racing industry with its first national database of racing injuries. The Equine Injury Database grew out of a proposal first put forth at the

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Trainer Suing Over Barn Fire, Six Horse Deaths

A Thoroughbred trainer claims in a lawsuit that an incorrectly installed vending machine caused a barn fire that killed six horses in western Kentucky.

John Hancock claims in his suit against Royal Crown Bottling Corp. that the faulty

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Report: Natural Nitrate Levels Caused Wild Horse Deaths

Federal officials probing the deaths of 71 wild horses on a military site ruled out high levels of nitrate in a pond, saying such rates occurred naturally.

Testing of a watering hole showed that the nitrate levels came from a combination of

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British Racing Group Stiffens Medication Policy

The British Horseracing Authority announced July 21 that trainers outside Europe need to say their horses have never been trained on non-therapeutic substances, particularly anabolic steroids, or face a ban from running in British races.

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Road to Nowhere: Tevis Hopefuls Head Home

Carrie Miracle-Jordan and Marilyn McCoy drove nearly 1,000 miles from Sierra Vista, Ariz., to Auburn, Calif., last week. Jordan planned to ride Stealawin, McCoy’s 10-year-old Arabian gelding, in the 100-mile Tevis Cup endurance race.

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Study: Positive Reinforcement Aids Equine Training


In a preliminary study on equine training, Michigan State researchers found that while adding positive reinforcement did not make horses learn a frightening task faster than horses that were handled using only traditional negative

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Shetland Pony Ambassadors Settled in Hong Kong



The Shetland ponies donated to the Hong Kong Equestrian Federation officially changed hands July 10 in a special ceremony. The American Shetland Pony Club donated the ponies to salute Hong Kong’s efforts in hosting the

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First Look at WEG Horse Park Layout, Venues

The World Games 2010 Foundation and the Kentucky Horse Park today released the first renderings of the Kentucky Horse Park venue plans for the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games, as well as the artistic renderings of a permanent indoor aren

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Oregon Horse Owners Face Rising Costs, Tough Choices

Tiffany Ostrander made one of the most difficult phone calls of her life to a horse rescue organization, asking if it might have room for her beloved 8-year-old quarter horse, Montana, or her 13-year-old pony, Trudy.


The 37-year-old Ben

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New Mexico Horse Tests Positive for West Nile Virus

A horse from McKinley County, N.M., has tested positive for West Nile virus, the first positive test for the virus in a horse this year.


That word from the state health department.


New Mexico has reported no human cases of West

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