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USEF to Host Clinics for Veterinarians

The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) will present two clinics in 2008 for veterinarians involved with national-level horse shows. These clinics are designed specifically for show veterinarians, testing veterinarians, and senior

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Ohio Forms Horse Industry Advocacy Group

The Ohio horse industry, in an effort to make its voice heard around the Buckeye State, has formed a coalition similar to the Kentucky Equine Education Project (KEEP), a horse industry advocacy group in Kentucky.

Early members of the Ohio grou

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Michigan Horse Seizure Affecting County Budget

 Jackson County, Mich., is taking a budget hit after tending to horses seized last spring in an animal cruelty investigation.

As of Nov. 30, overtime wages for county animal control employees had come to nearly 400% of the amount budgeted

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Readers Respond: All I Want For Christmas

More than 1,000 readers of TheHorse.com responded to a poll asking, “What are you planning to get your equine family member(s) this holiday season?


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Kentucky Equine Education Project Raises $4 Million

Many horse industry figures were in the spirit of giving Dec. 7 during the Kentucky Equine Education Project stallion season auction, billed with the tag line, “No Time to Hold Your Horses.” The auction was held for the first time since 2004 to

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New York City Ban on Carriages Will Be Proposed

The horse-drawn carriages that clip-clop around Central Park in New York City could be banned under City Council legislation to be introduced at the urging of animal advocates who say the horses are treated inhumanely.


Councilman Tony

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Horse Race Fixing Alleged at Delaware Park

A small sponge was inserted in the nostril of a horse at Delaware Park in an attempt to fix a race in October, State Police said.

Detectives are investigating the incident in which a small sponge was found in the nostril of 2-year-old filly

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Tulsa Police Officer Injured in Collision with Horse

A Tulsa, Okla., police officer is recovering from a head injury he sustained when his patrol car collided with a horse on a city street early Monday morning (Dec. 3).


Police say Corporal Randy Solomon was following an ambulance shortly

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Be Prepared

With natural disasters, hindsight is 20/20. If we are concerned about our horses, then we must plan for them.

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11 Horses Survive, 25 Perish in Utica, NY, Blaze

Samantha Bossone and her horse Zippity Zulu always seemed to have a special bond whenever they went riding together, Bossone’s mother said Wednesday.

“She cared for my daughter on her own,” Gina Bossone said of the chestnut-colored quarter

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British Court Upholds Ban on Foxhunting with Dogs

The image of Britons in scarlet coats galloping over fields as their dogs chase foxes is fixed in the popular imagination. But Britain’s highest court ruled Wednesday that laws banning the hunts must stand.

Hunters had appealed two bans: on

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Malibu Wildfire Mostly Contained

Favorable weather and an aerial assault early helped firefighters nearly contain a blaze Monday that destroyed dozens of homes along winding canyon roads, the second major fire here in as many months.

A cool breeze blowing in from the

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