Spring Training: Getting Your Horse Ready to Ride
Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service
February 28, 2008
To prepare for warmer weather, you should start getting your horse ready by checking his feet.
To prepare for warmer weather, you should start getting your horse ready by checking his feet.
The Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event is set to return to the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Ky., April 24-27. The event features some of the world’s best horses and riders vying for top honors.
This year’s event has the added attraction of
After extensive debate among Kentucky Democratic House leaders over whether or not a number of licenses should be set aside for racetracks in a proposed expanded gaming bill, the
More than 200 researchers, veterinarians, breeders, and other equine professionals participated in the 34th annual French Equine Research Day held Feb. 28 in Paris, France. The event, sponsored by the French National Stud, provides a forum
Almost exactly six months after the horse industry in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, ground to a halt due to an outbreak of equine influenza, government officials today declared the state free of the virus.
“It’s official, horse flu has
On Feb. 28, TheHorse.com hosted a Webinar on “Understanding Equine Influenza.”
State Agriculture Commissioner Ken Givens is urging farmers approved for cost share assistance through the Tennessee Agricultural Enhancement Program (TAEP) to make their purchases now in order to receive reimbursement.
The TAEP is a program t
More than 1,100 readers of TheHorse.com responded to a poll asking, “How many nights annually do you spend in the barn with a sick or pregnant horse?”
Four horseshoers and two equine veterinarians who have helped raise the level of care for horses feet have been inducted into the International Horseshoeing Hall of Fame and the International Equine Veterinarian Hall of Fame, respectively.
As wildfires continue to skip across Texas, the blazes have not yet caused mass evacuations of horses in affected areas, emergency management officials said on Wednesday.
“We’ve had a number of fires over the past several weeks
U.S. Rep. Ed Whitfield of Kentucky opened a Feb. 27 congressional hearing on the use of steroids in sports by claiming leaders of horse racing have repeatedly failed on promises to self-regulate medication issues.
Whitfield, a Republican
A Kentucky casino proposal continues to sit on Capitol Hill in Frankfort, as a bill for a constitutional amendment failed to pass out of committee Feb. 26.
An overflow of horse industry members packed into the Kentucky state capitol Feb. 26 to
An expected surge of air traffic in conjunction with the 2010 FEI Alltech World Equestrian Games has expedited a $4 million expansion at the Georgetown-Scott County, Ky., Airport.
The expansion includes a ramp extension and a new terminal
The Iraqi military indefinitely banned all motorcycles, bicycles, and hand-pushed and horse-drawn carts from Baghdad’s streets on Sunday, two days after a bomb hidden under a horse-drawn cart exploded downtown, killing three civilians.
U.S.
The Racing Medication and Testing Consortium (RMTC) has funded a research project to study threshold levels and withdrawal times of four approved anabolic steroids. But the timing of the study, which should be completed by August, could make it
Horse owners gathered Feb. 20 at the SmartPak Retail Store in Natick, Mass., to hear a lecture on keeping weight on a hard keeper, presented by Lydia Gray, DVM, MA, medical director/staff veterinarian for SmartPak.
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