The Racing Medication and Testing Consortium is developing a five-prong plan to implement equine drug testing standards similar to those used by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
The action, announced Sept. 24 after board meeting of the RMTC,
A week and a half after Hurricane Ike slammed into Galveston, Texas, horse rescue groups working the scene are scaling back their involvement as horse owners return to reclaim their animals and start the long rebuilding process.
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European cloning company Cryozootech announced Sept. 18 the birth of the clone of Calvaro 5, Swiss rider Villi Melliger’s top-ranked jumper who died in 2003.
It took five years to clone this horse successfully. After a few failed attempts for
The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission approved a statewide ban on certain kinds of whips in harness racing.
The commission on Monday unanimously approved the ban on whips and riding crops that have strands of material at the end called a
Some horse thieves are at work in Buena Vista County, Iowa–but they’re only after the tail.
The sheriff’s office said three people reported chopped tails just in the past week. Major Doug Simons said each case appears similar–someone went
Hurricane Ike barreled across the warm, energizing waters of the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday on its way toward the Texas coast.
Forecasters said the Category 1 storm was already strengthening over open waters after leaving Cuba and could grow
Residents of the Gulf Coast are watching anxiously as Hurricane Ike trudges toward areas still cleaning up after Gustav.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry put 7,500 National Guard members on standby as the National Hurricane Center warned the storm
Horse advocate John A. Hettinger, a member of the Board of Trustees of the New York Racing Association (Thoroughbreds) and Chairman Emeritus of the Grayson Jockey Club Research Foundation, died Sept. 6 at his Akindale Farm in Pawling, N.Y., afte
The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has advised the public that it is amending the regulations regarding the importation of live horses, ruminants, swine, and dogs by removing Panama from the lists of regions where
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