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Tough Sale: Horse Head-Butts Real Estate Agent

Real estate can be a tough business. But sometimes it’s a real beast, Erika McKinney has learned.


McKinney won a trip to the hospital when a horse bit her and knocked her into a tree during a property showing Nov. 10.


McKinney an

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International Disease Report Second Quarter 2006

The International Collating Center, Newmarket, England, and other sources reported the following disease outbreaks:


Contagious equine metritis (CEM) was confirmed among mares and stallions on several non-Thoroughbred breeding premises in

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Proliferative Enteropathy in Horses

Lawsonia intracellularis, a well-known pathogen of swine and hamsters, is now frequently recognized within the equine species. It is an obligate, intracellular, curved, gram-negative bacterium that resides freely within the apical

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Association Works to Protect Equine Actors

The sole purpose of the American Humane Association (AHA) is the safe use of animals in films. Horses are among those animals, and there are AHA representatives on every set checking out the setup, vetting the horses, providing their input on th

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Jockey’s Guild Sues Its Former Attorney For Negligence

The Jockey’s Guild has filed a lawsuit against the organization’s former legal counsel claiming he and others were negligent in their responsibilities to protect the financial interests of the Guild and its 1,300 member-jockeys at race tracks

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S.C. Man Dies After Car Strikes Horse

A 32-year-old Union, S.C., man has died after the car he was driving struck a horse in western Union County.

George Holloway was heading home to Union from Greenville on Thursday night when his Ford Focus hit a horse crossing state Highway

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Irish Officials Confirm 27th EIA Case

On Nov. 16, officials with Ireland’s Department of Agriculture and Food confirmed the 27th case of Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA) since the outbreak began in mid-June.

This latest case was confirmed following analysis of a blood sample take

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Preparing Your Horse for Winter

Here are tips in four different areas of horse management to help your horse not only survive, but thrive during cold weather so you have a healthy and willing partner when warmer temperatures return.

Nutrition

Forage, or hay,

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Stolen Pony Recovered After Five Years

Stolen Horse International (SHI) has reported that a stolen black-and-white pinto pony gelding was recently returned to its Vale, N.C. home, five years after it was declared missing by its owners.

Heidi Courneya was surfing the Internet

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Rubber-Matting Stable Fork

Tired of replacing poor-quality pitchforks every season? Frustrated with forks that pierce your beautiful rubber stall mats?

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