Competition News & Issues

Clone of Show Jumping Gelding Born

Researchers announced the June 2 birth of a clone of the Warmblood show jumping champion E.T. The colt, named E.T.Cryozootech-Stallion, was produced to further the 20-year-old gelding’s line.

According to release from Cryozootech, a French

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Barbaro “Stable,” Has Laminitis

In early- to mid-July, Barbaro developed “acute, severe” laminitis in his uninjured left hind foot, and his prognosis for recovery was pronounced “poor” by Dean Richardson, DVM, Dipl. ACVS, chief of surgery at the University of Pennsylvania’s New

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Woodbine Debuts New Polytrack Surface

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

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Beezie Madden Leads Pack in Day One of WEG Show Jumping

The first qualifier and speed class for the individual and team FEI World Championships in show jumping has ended, and the 16 efforts put in front of the 116 show jumpers going round were a bit more than a few could handle. And for Team U.S.A.,

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WEG Photo Gallery: Cross Country Spill

Austrian rider Harald Riedl, and Davigna, an 8-year-old bay mare, fall during the cross country phase of eventing competition at the FEI World Equestrian Games. Both horse and rider are reported uninjured.

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Kentucky Thoroughbred Industry Reeling After Plane Crash

The Central Kentucky horse industry was reeling Sunday after several prominent members of the equine community and others were among the 49 people killed in the crash of a commuter jet shortly after takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Ky.

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Barbaro Might Soon Get Cast Removed Completely

Based on the latest examination of Barbaro’s injured right hind leg, there is a possibility the classic winner will soon have the cast removed completely.


The cast on the leg was changed Sunday (Aug. 27) by veterinarians at the Universit

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WEG Medals Awarded in Vaulting and Eventing

It was years in the making, but it came down to one minute in Aachen, Germany, and when that one minute was over, 18-year-old Megan Benjamin of Saratoga, CA, was the first female American vaulter ever to take a world championship. For the past 2

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Rave Reviews for Woodbine’s Polytrack Unveiling

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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National Turf Writers to Honor “Team Barbaro”

(from National Turf Writers Association release)


The individuals associated with undefeated Kentucky Derby (gr. I) winner Barbaro, veterinary surgeon Dean W. Richardson, DVM, Dipl. ACVS, and the University of Pennsylvania School

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