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When Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Funny Cide is welcomed at the Kentucky Horse Park this Friday, Dec. 5, it will signal a new era of complete retirement and rest for a
Using emergency regulations, the Louisiana Racing Commission has banned the use of anabolic steroids in racehorses effective Jan. 1, 2009.
Racing commission executive director Charlie Gardiner said the regulations were adopted Dec. 2 via
The Horse Trust, a U.K. equine welfare organization, has announced that based on recent research the group funded, some cross-country course designers are putting horses at risk for damaging falls by incorporating “potentially dangerous”
A horse in Pella, Iowa, died after being struck by a United Parcel Service truck Monday evening, The Associated Press has reported.
In the month since its launch, 20 Thoroughbreds have found new homes via TheHorse.com’s free listing service for Thoroughbreds available to good homes. See the list of horses that
Springside, who suffered a fracture to her right-front pastern after capturing the Nov. 29 Demoiselle Stakes by 9 1/2 lengths at Aqueduct, is recovering well at the University of Pennsylvania’s New Bolton Center in Kennett Square, Pa.
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When evaluating a feeding program it is vital to know how to calculate cost per head per day.
A search party is combing the desert around Arizona’s McDowell Mountain Park, after a 7-year-old grey Arabian horse competing in an endurance event lost his rider and disappeared, according to Phoenix television station
As soon as my 20-year-old gelding was diagnosed with equine Cushing’s disease, I eliminated glucosamine from his diet.
Standards help to ensure, manage, and effectively monitor risk of use for products and ingredients for horses.
A Kentucky state judge has denied the private bid by majority owner Stonestreet Stables for the minority interest in reigning Horse of the Year Curlin, ordering the pertinent parties to work out their differences on their own.
Franklin
Call Again Cavalier, a horse ridden by Britain’s Mary King, was euthanized yesterday after he fell during the inaugural Express Eventing International Cup,
Horse of the Year Curlin closed out his record-setting career at Churchill Downs Nov. 29, as he was paraded in front of fans on the final day of the track?s Fall Meet.
The 4-year-old colt, whose career earnings of $10.5 million set a
According to an article on www.chinaview.cn, today (Nov. 29) was the first time since 1949 that people on mainland China were allowed to bet on horse raaces … sort of.
A “testing
If the drug capsaicin is found in any future samples from equine atheletes in International Equestrian Federation (FEI)-sanctioned events, the results will be treated as doping, not medication, according to veterinary committee chairman John
Dobbin, owned and ridden by Dover Saddlery employee Corinne Ashton, has been named 2008 Horse of the Year by the United States Eventing Association.
Dobbin, a 14-year-old Thoroughbred gelding is owned and ridden by Corinne Ashton who
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