Two Missoula, Mont., men are charged in the fatal shooting of a horse in the Ninemile Valley earlier this week.
David A. Moorse, 21, and Jacob C. Scharff, 25, were each charged Thursday with accountability for criminal mischief, a felony
Shake You Down, the third-place finisher in the 2003 Breeders’ Cup Sprint who wound up running in $14,000 claiming races earlier this year, has been retired by owner Robert Cole and donated to the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation (TRF). Cole
“NTRA Racing to the Kentucky Derby,” the horse racing series on ABC and the ESPN networks, presents a pair of races from Turfway Park in Florence, Ky., today (March 24) from 5-6 p.m. (EST) on ESPN. The show will also feature an interview with
Nina Fout’s 2000 Olympic partner, 3 Magic Beans, was euthanatized on March 15 due to a degenerative spinal cord disease. He was 17.
“Beans” came to Fout “with a zero-dollar earnings record” from the racing string of her father, the late
Months after the equine community lost the Kentucky Derby Champion Barbaro to laminitis, veterinarians will gather in Seattle, Wash., at the 2007 ACVIM Forum on June 6-9 to discuss new ways to prevent and manage the disease that eventually led t
A 2-year-old Welsh Cob colt climbed into a bit of a predicament in southern England yesterday afternoon (March 23), when he became lodged inside of a van full of hay. Freeing the horse, named Triple Five, required 14 firefighters, a
A supervisor at Hong Kong’s Happy Valley racetrack uncovered a device believed to be a tranquilizer gun embedded in the turf track, Reuters reported on MSNBC. A police officer sai
While some of the differences between donkeys and their horse cousins are obvious, others take a little research to discover. Veterinary researchers from the University of Liverpool, U.K., performed a retrospective analysis on the rate and
Sahm, the sole male offspring from the great European mare Salsabil, was euthanized March 20 because of an ongoing intestinal disease. The 13-year-old son of Mr. Prospector stood at Sheikh Hamdan’s Shadwell Farm near Lexington.
Sahm race
The American Quarter Horse Association elected its 2007 Executive Committee on March 6 during the 2007 AQHA Convention in Houston. Frank Merrill of Purcell, Okla., took the reins as the Association’s president, and the committee welcomed ne
The Blue Grass Farms Chaplaincy Inc. (BGFC) will hold its annual golf tournament scramble fundraiser on Monday, May 14, at The Golf Club of the Bluegrass near Lexington, Ky. There are openings for individuals and teams to play, sponsorship
The BHS is launching the first part of their 2007 Ragwort Awareness Campaign, urging all concerned parties to get pulling to prevent the spread of Ragwort.
They will once again be holding two Ragwort Awareness Weeks; April 2-8 and
Teddy bear surgery, a dancing dog demonstration, and veterinary hospital tours are just some of the activities available to young and old alike at the Open House sponsored by students of the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine o
The video explains the health and fitness benefits of using a horse heart monitor for any horse or rider.
The British Horse Society has set out priorities to boost the Scottish equine industry.
Full cross-party support was given at the March 21 launch of an eight-page document detailing these recommendations. Members of the Scottish
Queen Elizabeth II is bringing some real royalty to the sport of kings.
The queen and husband Prince Philip plan to attend the Kentucky Derby on May 5 at Churchill Downs, Buckingham Palace said Wednesday. The visit is part of a six-day
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