More than 1,400 readers of TheHorse.com responded to a poll asking, “What’s your favorite “mixer” to encourage horses to consume oral medications?”

Gather your friends and load up your horses for the first-ever QuarterFest: A Celebration of the American Quarter Horse. This one-of-a-kind event, May 1-3 in Murfreesboro, Tenn., will be a chance to cure your cabin fever and revel in the arrival of

You’ve bought presents for everyone else, now’s the time to treat yourself to some fabulous equestrian artwork from TheHorse.com. There is only one week left until the end of the 20% coupon offering, so now’s the time to act! The offer ends January

The President’s Inaugural Parade has a long tradition of including horses in the festivities, and this year was no different. With more than 200 horses representing 10 teams from throughout the United States, riders helped make this histori

The Southern Ohio Ladies Aside team is counting itself lucky after an accident involving one of their horses and a Secret Service truck at Tuesday’s President’s Inaugural Parade in Washington.

Mouse, an Appaloosa ridden by Deb Fuller, was

Members of the Kentucky Walking Horse Association (KWHA) declined to re-elect two controversial members to the group’s board of directors during their annual meeting Jan. 10.

Former President Earl Rogers Jr., and former Vice

California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) Secretary A.G. Kawamura is announcing the formation of the Equine Advisory Task Force. The task force will act as liaison between the industry and the department in matters relating to

Love them or hate them, one of the main concerns about synthetic tracks is how to determine if they are doing what they were intended for–provide a safe, consistent racing surface.

In California, where four major racetracks use different

The Washington State University (WSU) College of Veterinary Medicine recently established a $25,000 scholarship to honor the former dean, Warwick Bayly, BVSc, MS, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM. The fund will help students following in his footsteps in

Veterinarians with the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission (KHRC) and management at Turfway Park are looking into reasons why the number of catastrophic injuries over the Polytrack surface spiked during the recently concluded holiday meet at the

A Kentucky lawmaker is preparing racing-related legislation with a primary goal of funding the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission, equine drug testing, and supplements for purses and stakes at the state’s racetracks.

The draft bill authore

The Horseman’s Card, a Visa created in 1991 to help support the Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center in Lexington, Ky., contributes to equine research with every purchase.

Officials of the University of Kentucky’s Department of Veterinar

A black Shetland Pony who closely resembles the pony “Little Black” in the Walter Farley book Little Black, A Pony, has a new home with the Black Stallion Literacy Foundation at Arabian Nights in Orlando, Fla. The pony was donated by the

One of only 30 ambulances designed specifically for horses will be on display at the 2009 Midwest Horse Fair in Madison, Wisc., on April 17-19, 2009.

The equine ambulance, purchased by Morrie Waud, has special features to help stabiliz

An 18-year-old Arabian stallion was thought to be killed by the kindness of strangers. According to the U.K. newspaper Daily Express, the stallion, which was purchased for ?10,000 (or