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Hennessy Dead of Apparent Heart Failure

Coolmore Stud?s talented stallion Hennessy reportedly died of apparent heart failure Aug. 9 at Haras La Mission in Argentina. The 14-year-old son of Storm Cat out of Island Kitty, by Hawaii, had shuttled to Argentina for the Southern Hemisphere

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Gas Leak a Possible Cause of 27 Horse Deaths

A natural gas leak might have caused the deaths of 27 ranch horses in southern Idaho near Malta, according to an online report from Twin Falls? Times-News.


A spokeswoman for Northwest Pipeline said company personnel found 16

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Hoofing It with John Henry

If you’ve visited the Kentucky Horse Park sometime in the past few months, you might have noticed a small, dark brown gelding, utterly unremarkable apart from his obvious age, walking with purpose with bright eyes and pricked ears among the sleek

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U.K. Authorities Testing More Cattle for FMD

British authorities were testing for a new outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD) Friday, after cattle in a herd grazing several miles away from an initial cluster of cases were suspected of falling ill, raising fears that the virus is

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Olympic Equestrian Test Event to Begin Saturday

A test event to discover any issues with the venue constructed for the 2008 Olympic equestrian competition will begin Saturday. This will be the first equestrian event hosted at the Olympic site in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong Jockey Club completed

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WNV, EEE Found in Massachusetts Mosquitoes

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MPH) announced Aug. 10 that Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus and West Nile virus (WNV) have been detected in mosquitoes in Bristol, Norfolk, and Suffolk counties.


According to the MP

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ASPCA to Award Maclay National Championship Trophy

Officials with The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), a sponsor of the 32nd Annual Hampton Classic Horse Show, will present the ASPCA Maclay National Championship trophy on Friday, August 31. R. Scot Evans, equine

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Diving Mule Act Concerns Animal Activists

Five bucks buys a ticket to Bill Rivers’ Saturday night rodeo and the chance to see three mules jump off a 24-foot-high platform into a six-foot-deep pool of water.

Rivers says the crowd goes wild for his “High Diving Aqua Mules” act. But

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Vaccine Lab Implicated as Source of FMD Outbreak

Foot and mouth disease (FMD) is so highly contagious–and such a threat to farm economies–that the United States won’t allow researchers to work with the virus on the mainland. But in Britain, a lab making Foot and Mouth vaccines was located

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