A Colorado woman could face multiple criminal charges after Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden seized animals, including 16 allegedly malnourished horses, from her Animal Angels
Santa Anita Park canceled live racing for Jan. 7 because of continued problems with its Cushion Track surface.
The Southern California racetrack also scrapped its Jan. 5-6 programs. The surface doesn’t properly drain, and a storm dumped
The American Horse Council (AHC) today released a statement expressing the group’s support of the USDA proposal to amend the regulations governing the commercial transportation of equines for slaughter. The proposed changes would extend the
Autopsy results are expected for a woman whose family says she was trampled by a police horse while trying to pet it.
The accident occurred outside a shopping mall in suburban Henrietta, N.Y., when Susan Banker, 51, of Lima approached a
The Louisiana State University (LSU) School of Veterinary Medicine will host its 26th Annual Open House on Saturday, March 1, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
This year’s theme is Veterinarians in the
Horse owners can stave off winter-induced horse withdrawal and get some equine education through The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine. The school will be hosting a series of classes to provide timely and practical updates on
Tendon injuries are an important cause of wastage in athletic horses, particularly (when injuries occur in) energy storing tendons–such as the superficial digital flexor tendon (SDFT)–which act like springs to contribute to movement.
The California Horse Racing Board will meet in special session by teleconference Jan. 8 to consider allowing the Los Angeles Turf Club to move some or all of its racing dates to Hollywood Park if the drainage problem that
Fire officials said a mudslide flooded horse stables in an Orange County canyon with mud and debris.
Fire Capt. Mike Blawn said no people or animals were hurt in the slide Sunday afternoon in Modjeska Canyon, which burned during last fall’s
Santa Anita officials canceled racing for Jan. 5 after Southern California was hit with the first of a series of rainstorms the previous evening. The Cushion Track synthetic surface, installed at Santa Anita this past summer to replace its main dir
The New Mexico state Transportation Department has been sued by a Rowe woman who said she was injured when her vehicle struck a horse on N.M. 34.
Gina Bazan was driving near Rowe early Jan. 29, 2007, when she struck the animal ”running
A downturn in the housing industry is being blamed for a shortage of equine shavings that has resulted in sharp price increases and changes in the methods some owners use to manage their horses.
“The cost of shavings has increased by 70% in
Curly is on its way to becoming the fashion in France–not only in the hairdressers’ salons, but in the stables, including a new equestrian center just north of the Riviera.
Since 2000, American Bashkir Curly breeding farms have been popping u
A Reno County, Kan., man has been arrested on multiple animal cruelty charges after two horses died on his farm.
Sheriff’s officials launched an investigation of 43-year-old Dwayne Pike in November after a deputy spotted several horses on his
Sheriff’s deputies have arrested a rural Mansfield, Ill., man following the death of three horses on his farm.
Piatt County Sheriff’s Department Chief Deputy Todd McCabe said that he arrested Richard Pagel, rural Mansfield, for aggravated
The finalists for the 2007 (Thorougbred) Eclipse Awards were announced Jan. 4, with many of the categories, as usual, dominated by winners of the Breeders’ Cup World Championships races.
It is possible that nine of the 10 (flat) Eclipse winner
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