Racing Victoria has breathed fresh air into the Thoroughbred industry in Australia by going against the recommendations of its sister states in the wake of an equine influenza outbreak, but the problem is far from resolved.
The Victorian
Keep your boots, long johns and snow shovels handy this winter if you live in the East, the Farmers’ Almanac’s forecast suggests. Residents of the West, however, can look forward to a milder winter this time around.
“Mother Nature is going to be sort of two-faced,” almanac editor Peter Geiger said.
The almanac’s 2008 edition, which goes on sale Tuesday, foresees plenty of snow acros
Racing is expected to resume in most Australian states by the weekend, but the movement of all horses continues to be banned following the country’s first outbreak of equine influenza.
A casualty of the equine emergency is the mounted polic
Horse owners are invited to a symposium on equine healthcare Saturday, Oct. 6, from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. The symposium will be hosted by Oklahoma State University Center for Veterinary Health Sciences and Department of Animal Science, Division of
Colorado State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences announced Aug. 27 the establishment of the Iron Rose Ranch University Chair in Equine Reproduction, funded with a $3 million gift.
The chair will enhance the
A Lewisburg, Tenn., man charged with animal cruelty was not performing military service in Iraq as The Associated Press reported, but was actually stateside when Marshall County
One of the most frustrating aspects of diagnosing and treating lameness in horses is that they can’t tell you where it hurts. But a relatively new technology to the equine world is helping some veterinarians pinpoint lameness problems. Bruce
A Thoroughbred veterinarian infected by the killer Hendra virus was admitted to a hospital in Queensland Aug. 27. The vet contracted the virus after performing an autopsy on a Thoroughbred in his clinic last week.
There are reportedly
An apologetic Russell Baze was suspended for 15 days by Bay Meadows stewards and fined $2,500 Aug. 26 for misusing his whip as the result of a complaint arising from an incident at the Bay Area track last week.
“I’m not going to try to
There now are 51 confirmed cases of equine influenza in horses at eight premises, and 18 other properties where equine influenza is suspected in New South Wales (NSW), said Department of Primary Industries Minister Ian Macdonald today (Aug.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) will distribute oral rabies vaccine baits to prevent the spread of raccoon rabies in portions of West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania.
Tom Chambers, PhD, who heads The OIE Reference Laboratory for Equine Influenza at the University of Kentucky’s Gluck Equine Research Center in Lexington, says there is more than one strain of equine influenza known to be in circulation in the
The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services Division of Public Health Services announced today that a horse in Kensington has died from Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE).
“EEE is a serious disease and, as with humans, the key
A news story on News.com.au, quoted New South Wales Primary Industries Minister Ian Macdonald on Aug. 28 saying six police horses in Sydney tested positive for equine influenza, and all horses at that police depot were in quarantine.
In a press release from the New South Wales (NSW) Department of Primary Industries on Aug. 28, Minister Ian Macdonald said at least 58 horses are now infected with equine influenza on nine confirmed properties. Another 615 horses are in formal
In El Paso, Texas, a truck pulling a horse trailer collided with five parked cars, killing four racehorses, El Paso police said. The driver and two horses survived.
Police said they believed that a medical condition suffered by the
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