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The hearings for the six riders suspended for positive substance tests at the 2008 Olympic Games have begun, but the Tribunal of the F?d?ration Equestre Internationale (FEI) has not yet reached a decision in five of the cases.
Questions and concerns abound surrounding the use of oral joint health supplements for horses with osteoarthritis, and so researchers continue their quest to determine if and how glucosamine works to decrease pain and inflammation caused by
Curlin, racing’s $10 million horse, arrived at Santa Anita on Sunday, Sept. 28, and settled in at Barn 27. Sherwood Chillingworth, executive vice president of the Oak Tree Racing Association, was on hand to welcome Curlin and Scott Blasi,
The old warrior Evening Attire, a stakes-winning Thoroughbred racehorse at age 10 and earner of nearly $3 million, has been retired due to a suspensory injury, co-owners and breeders Tommy Kelly and Joseph and Mary Grant announced Sept. 28.
It didn’t take majority owner Jess Jackson and trainer Steve Asmussen long to make plans for Curlin, winner of the Sept. 27 Jockey Club Gold Cup Invitational at Belmont Park. The colt departed Belmont Park Sunday morning and is on way to Santa
The International Collating Centre, Newmarket, England, and other sources reported the following disease outbreaks.
A single non-Thoroughbred horse in France and four non-Thoroughbred horses on two premises in Switzerland were confirmed
An article today (Sept. 28) at racingandsports.com.au said Racing Victoria in Australia has canceled all hurdle racing in the territory for the remainder of the
Curlin made racing history by winning the $750,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup Invitational (gr.I) at Belmont Park in New York on Sept. 27. Curlin’s victory, which was worth $450,000, made the colt the richest North American-based Thoroughbred of
Tests on 74 horses have come back negative after a horse had a “weak positive test” for equine infuenza.
All eyes will be on reigning Horse of the Year Curlin as he takes aim at Cigar’s all-time earnings record in the $750,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup Invitational Sept. 27 at Belmont Park.
Eight horses will challenge Curlin, the defending Gold Cup
The University of Kentucky’s (UK) Equine Initiative unveiled a new Web site this month. The updated Web site launch coincides with the start of the fall semester and reflects the tremendous progress that’s been made in equine programs since
A Kentucky state judge signed an order Sept. 25 that could possibly pave the way for the minority interest in defending Thoroughbred Horse of the Year Curlin to be sold by sealed bid.
The order, which was signed by Franklin County Special Judg
Skeptics continue to doubt the effects of glucosamine and other oral joint health supplements, but mounting research seems to be proving, one step at a time, that there is more to these products than meets the eye.
Canadian researchers, led
Trainer Larry Jones, who earlier this year saddled the winner of the Kentucky Oaks and the following day had a filly finish second in the Kentucky Derby, said he plans to retire by the end of 2009.
“It is just time to quit,” Jones said Sept
The Olympic horses and riders might have left the equestrian venue last month, but the lights at the Hong Kong Jockey Club’s Sha Tin facility are only now beginning to dim, as the Paralympic Games came to a close only a couple weeks ago.
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Today the F?d?ration Equestre Internationale (FEI) Tribunal has issued its decision in the positive medication case involving the horse Mythilus ridden by Courtney King-Dye, and representing the U.S. Dressage Team at the 2008 Olympic Games in
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