Steve Kraus will join the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine as head farrier, effective Nov. 1. He will continue the great work of Michael Wildenstein, who has been with Cornell since 1991, and has accepted an early retirement incentive offered by New York State. Kraus specializes in trouble shooting under-performing horses around the Finger Lakes Region of Central

The New Jersey Department of Agriculture announced an initiative to ensure that horse owners and dealers are aware of–and following–the longstanding regulations for bringing horses into the state from another state.

A Montana couple is offering a $500 reward for information that leads to the arrest of the person/persons who cut hair from the couple’s horse’s tail earlier this month. Beaverhead County resident Bob Riley said he and his wife, Connie, discovered someone had cut about four feet of hair from their Morgan horse’s tail on Oct. 17. Hair from the tails and mane of three ho

In an effort to help reduce the number of unwanted and inconvenient horses being bred in Kentucky, the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington is hosting its first Free Gelding Clinic on Saturday, Dec. 4. This free clinic is being provided by the Kentucky Horse Park in partnership with the Kentucky Equine Humane Center and the Kentucky Horse Council, with funding provided by the American

Super Saver, winner of the 2010 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands, has been retired from racing and will stand at Kenny Troutt’s WinStar Farm near Versailles, Ky. “The final decision to retire Super Saver was a difficult one that may not be popular with fans but should be very popular with our breeders,” said Elliott Walden, WinStar vice president and racing ma

The International Collating Center, Newmarket, United Kingdom, and other sources reported the following disease outbreaks. Contagious equine metritis (CEM) was reported from Germany, Italy, and the USA. A single mare case was reported out of 1,183 animals tested in Germany. Italy recorded T. equigenitalis infection in one non-Thoroughbred mare and two non

The University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine will host the national Student American Veterinary Medical Association (SAVMA) Symposium at the veterinary school campus beginning March 24, 2011. This student-organized program will be bringing between 1,100-1,400 veterinary students from every veterinary school in the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean, as

In a Sept. 20 press release from American Veterinary Medical Frontiers Inc. (AVMF), details regarding “Nora,” a “healthy, well-cared-for, friendly horse,” according to the press release that was bred by Robert J. Tashjian, VMD, associated with the AVMF for her natural immunity to equine infectious anemia (EIA) were relayed and the devastating news of her government-mandat

When it’s late at night, your horse needs help, and you have nowhere to turn, is your veterinarian or veterinary technician the one you can count on? Does he or she consistently provide your horse with a standard of care that allows you and your horse to get back to doing what you love? Give these professionals the recognition they deserve by nominating them for the Bayer Animal Health

More than 480 readers of TheHorse.com responded to a poll asking, “How knowledgeable are you about equine rabies?”

Six horses are in USDA/Animal and Plant Health Services (APHIS) custody after U.S. Border Patrol agents impounded them from a pair of alleged smugglers near the California-Mexico border.

Providing horses a continuous supply of clean water is part of the foundation of good husbandry. Several different water sources might be found on a horse farm: ponds, streams, lakes, and automatic waterers or troughs supplied by well water or city w

The Breeders’ Cup announced Oct. 26 that a record 184 horses have been pre-entered for the 2010 Breeders’ Cup World Championships to be held at Churchill Downs on Nov. 5-6. The full list of all horsed pre-entered for all 14 races of the Championships will be announced on Oct. 27. “Based on the commitments received by our racing department, if the fields hold together

A 2-year-old mare from Monmouth County, N.J., was euthanized this month after contracting Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE). This is the first 2010 case of EEE to be reported in the state. The mare was not vaccinated against EEE, which causes inflammation of the brain tissue and has a significantly higher risk of death in horses than infection from West Nile virus (WNV), a viral d

A federal court judge has denied wild horse advocates’ motion for an injunction to prevent a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) mustang gather in Colorado.

The BLM began gathering wild horses that had moved outside of the

The operator of a West Virginia equine rescue will pay a $1,000 fine and is prohibited from owning animals for five years after pleading guilty to one count of misdemeanor animal cruelty under a plea deal entered in Berkeley County Magistrate Court on Oct. 21.