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The Virginia Equine Extravaganza returns to Richmond’s Raceway Complex October 27-29, 2006, for the third annual equine symposium and first-ever three-day Virginia-based colt-starting competition emceed by horse behavior expert and clinician
When U.S. presidents receive gifts, the items are acknowledged, then packed away in a government warehouse to await the opening of his future library.
It’s been the fate of many pairs of cowboy boots and hats, expensive rugs, glinting
The Welfare and Safety of the Racehorse Summit opens Monday at Keeneland in Lexington with a session of presentations and panel discussions that will be open to the public. The session, which will be held in the Keeneland sale pavilion, will run
Angry demonstrators and rabbis as well as a ban on gambling failed to stop the inauguration of Israel’s first horse racetrack, as thousands of fans cheered the four-legged competitors.
It’s not much at this point — just a collection of
Researchers at Michigan State University (MSU) have reported in a pilot study that a bee pollen-based product shows promise in improving athletic horses’ feed intake.
A colt from the first crop of Smarty Jones became the highest-priced horse sold so far this year at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co.’s fall mixed sale when he brought $170,000 Wednesday (Oct. 11). Clear Sky Stable purchased the chestnut weanling
Canadian-born and California-based J. Paul Reddam faces the possibility in less than a month of having as many as six runners in this year’s Breeders’ Cup World Championships. Reddam’s possibles for next month’s Breeders? Cup include Juvenile
A northeast Georgia woman faces a drunk driving charge after riding a horse onto a highway, where she was hit by a car.
Authorities say 22-year-old Heather Darnell of Mountain City also was cited for entering a traffic lane. She remains
Blood-Horse Publications, parent company of The Horse: Your Guide To Equine Health Care and TheHorse.com, has announced that the holiday edition.
Australia’s Herald Sun reported today that a Thoroughbred racehorse drowned after bolting, crashing through a racetrack railing, and
Like all good detectives, Joyce Trammell worked the phones, wrote letters, traveled and ran across a little bit of luck.
Trammell, a researcher for the Kentucky Derby Museum in Louisville, Ky., was trying to find all of the missing
Two jockeys who were thrown from their horses on opening day at Portland Meadows have been released from a Portland hospital, track officials said. One rider’s horse had to be euthanatized.
Jose Rivera Jr. was released Sunday night after
Veterinarians changed Barbaro’s cast Monday, officials at the George D. Widener Hospital said today (Oct.10).
“We placed Barbaro under general anesthesia to remove the old cast on his right hind limb and took new radiographs to assess the
The North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service Horse Husbandry Section at North Carolina State University will kick off its 2006-2007 Extension Horse Short Course and Clinic Series in October with an introductory level horse judging short
The market – fueled by sales of horses fetching enormous sums – is growing. More horses than ever are being sold, according to Keeneland sales director Geoffrey Russell. And encouraged by small farms like Monticule that have made big splashes at sal
Scientists have shown the protozoan parasite that causes equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM) might enter the horse’s central nervous system hidden in leukocytes (white blood cells) that cross the blood-brain barrier.
“Horses are
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