Design and maintain a healthy horse operation
For the second time in six months, tragedy struck one of Thoroughbred racing’s showcase events. The arrival of a new racing surface, however, could usher in an era of safer American tracks.
Pine Island was fatally injured and Fleet Indian
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Horses are delicate creatures. Despite their size and strength, they can be afflicted by a host of ailments. Their use in equestrian sports, their curious nature, and their boisterous social interactions can easily put them in injury-causing
Racing may have been winding down on Saturday, Oct. 28, the final day of Keeneland’s fall meet in Lexington, Ky., but top stakes contenders were taking advantage of the opportunity to get in one last work over Polytrack before the Breeders’ Cup
The New Jersey Department of Agriculture issued a quarantine Oct. 26 on more than 1,000 horses at Monmouth Park in the wake of positive test results on at least one horse for the neuropathogenic strain of the equine herpes virus.
At least
Churchill Downs is putting the finishing touches on quarantine and isolation facilities that will house foreign participants set to compete in the 23rd
A Cabinet minister Friday berated the trainers of a Japanese racehorse hailed as the nation’s best ever after it tested positive for a banned substance following a third-place finish at the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.
The Japan Racing
Stalling–is it the best way to house your horse, a necessary evil, or something that should be avoided? As it turns out, there is no answer that will apply to all horses. Stalling is a common practice that has been used in the horse industry fo
As Keeneland officials noted with a laugh, it couldn’t have been better scripted. But sometimes in horse racing, things have a funny way of coming together despite numerous factors. And on Friday, opening day at the Lexington racetrack, they did
Tax relief for the horse industry, not racetrack gaming, will be the focus of the Kentucky Equine Education Project (KEEP) during the 2007 General Assembly session, according to the chairman of the organization.
KEEP this year authored
Owners of some of the 18 horses killed in a St. Clair County barn fire are finding out that they did not have enough insurance to replace all of what they lost.
Farm owner Beverly McCollum owned nine of the horses killed in the Sept. 9 fire
Change has been constant in the equine industry during the past couple of decades, ranging from sophisticated health care and treatment to improved living quarters for horses in our care, custody, and control.
When the horse was the prime
You’ve heard the names: Cushion Track, Polytrack, Tapeta, StaLok. They are the trademark names of the major players in racing’s latest frontier: the new North American market to replace dirt tracks with synthetic ones.
Pardon the pun, but o
Demi Song bounced his way into Canadian Thoroughbred record books at Woodbine Aug. 30 when the gelding won the first race over the track’s new Polytrack surface.
Woodbine is only the second track in North America to hold a race meeting o
Woodbine Racetrack unveiled its state-of-the-art Polytrack racing surface for training today (Aug. 27).
Hundreds of horses galloped, jogged, or walked while 84 recorded timed workouts ranging from two furlongs to seven furlongs during th
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