This year, give your favorite horse owner the gift of a stress-free tax season with the American Horse Council’s 2006 Tax Handbook. This 1,000-page guide for horse owners and breeders explains the Internal Revenue Code as it pertains to
Ouija Board has been withdrawn from the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Vase (HK-I) at Sha Tin Racecourse Sunday due to soreness in the splint bone of her left foreleg.
The mare had been expected to conclude her
The ASPCA (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) has coordinated a historical exhibit at the Empire State Building to run through the end of the holiday season.
The five exhibit windows feature different aspects in the
Workers are busy turning land that once housed a private horse farm into a public park that will feature horses, while also trying to teach environmental lessons to visitors.
The Springfield, Mo., Parks and Recreation Department’s Equine
While the brother of a South Korean rider killed in an eventing accident arrived in Qatar on Friday to collect the body, equestrian officials defended their decision to continue running the cross-country competition after the man died in
Animal safety workers removed five “significantly underweight” horses from a property in Rye, N.H., where the owner had been convicted of cruelty to animals in 1999.
One of the horses required serious medical attention and is at a local
A young zebra at the Virginia Zoo in Norfolk, Va., has died in a freak accident following a rabies shot.
Zoo spokeswoman Alison Swank says zookeepers administered the shot with a blow dart gun, but the zebra bolted, struck a fence and fell
Horse owners’ familiarity with equine infectious anemia (EIA) varies greatly by where they live, the size of their operation, and how they used their horses, according to the National Animal Health Monitoring System’s (NAHMS) Equine 2005
A New York state appeals court has upheld the 45-day suspension and $3,000 fine against leading trainer Todd Pletcher after one of his horses was found with a banned substance following a 2004 race at Saratoga.
The Appellate Division of the
A new park designed to commemorate northeast Lexington’s role in the history of thoroughbred racing is in the planning stages, with proponents saying it will help the city and blacks reclaim their places in racing history.
The park will be
Thoroughbred trainer D. Wayne Lukas received a standing ovation Sunday (Dec. 3) following his keynote speech that opened the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) convention in San Antonio, Texas.
The Hall of Fame trainer
Members of the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium (RMTC) are expected to recommend regulation of anabolic steroids in racehorses, but the timetable for the regulations remains up in the air.
RMTC officials earlier in the year said
South Korean eventer Kim Hyung-chil was crushed by his horse after missing a jump on a muddy equestrian course at the Asian Games in Doha, Qatar, on Thursday (Dec. 7), raising concern over how organizers managed the event.
It was the
Trainer Cole Norman was suspended for six months and fined $1,000 by the Delta Downs stewards after two horses he saddled in the Jean Lafitte Stakes Nov. 3 at Delta Downs tested in excess of the permitted levels of total carbon dioxide (TCO2). H
Beginning Jan. 1, 2007, the American Paint Horse Association (APHA) will introduce exciting changes to its Gelding Plus and Paint Preferred incentive programs. Offering a potential $193,000 in added money through the programs, APHA gives owners
Wild horses rounded up on the Carson National Forest northeast of El Rito in Taos, N.M., are available for adoption.
A contractor has captured 31 horses on the Jarita Mesa in an effort to reduce the population in the area.
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