To date, 36 championship contenders have owners and/or trainers pledging a percentage of their Breeders’ Cup purse earnings to New Vocations.
Mary Lassaline, DVM, PhD, MA, Dipl. ACVO, is heading the UC Davis equine ophthalmology service.
Filmmaker MJ Isakson is completing a film documenting the sport of ‘reined cow horse,’ its horses, and its legends.
The 20-year-old stallion has been standing at stud in Japan and is expected to be back in Kentucky by late November.
In a statement, agricultural authorities said they receive daily complaints about horses roaming residential neighborhoods and that gathers only take place when the horses pose a danger to themselves or to the public safety.
The filly was euthanized the evening of Oct. 28 at Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital after a paddock accident at Lane’s End Farm.
Emily Champion, DVM, who practiced veterinary medicine at Delta Downs racetrack, was the victim of a homicide Oct. 26 while visiting her parents at their rural western Kentucky home.
Ross Russell, DVM, was suspended and fined $20,000 for allegedly administering cobalt to a horse before a race and several other offenses.
A state committee voted to draft a resolution calling attention to wild horse management and the animals’ environmental impact on the state’s rangelands.
Of the 2,049 respondents, 698 (34%) said their horse receives hay twice per day, while 573 (28%) said their horse has continual access to hay.
The new feature within the ICE BlackBox app allows users to create a short video record of suspected animal cruelty incidents, as well as to establish GPS coordinates of the alleged crime.
One vet recommends taking these preparation steps to help reduce the impact of an outbreak.
I have a 17-year-old that has a fractured navicular bone that has calcified. I have seen magnetic bell boots available on the market and was wondering if these would help with the pain. Is there any type of treatment or surgery that can repair this?
Officials at a Lexington, Kentucky, equine drug-testing laboratory blamed recent long delays in processing samples on a spike of nearly 100 times the number of usual suspicious results this year compared with 2013.
Starting in 2015, trainers convicted of some medication violations will not be able to transfer horses to assistant trainers or other employees to race in the Breeders’ Cup.
The BLM will gather approximately 120 excess wild horses from in and around the Triple B and Silver King herd management areas.
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