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New Year, Same Resolve

A new year has begun. How many resolutions have you made? Broken any yet? Mine include getting home and barn emergency kits together. I’ve had them in the past, but when we checked after the hurricanes made preparedness an issue in our lives,

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New York Requiring Kentucky Health Papers

Dr. Anthony Verderosa, Chief Examining Veterinarian for the New York Racing Association (NYRA), conveyed to the Kentucky State Veterinarian by telephone earlier this afternoon (Dec. 31, 2005) that effective immediately, all horses shipping onto

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Fires Force Horse Evacuations

Smoke rising from wildfires in Los Angeles County, Calif., provided an uneasy backdrop for rescue teams tending to animal evacuees housed at Pierce College, located just eight miles from the fires. The college housed up to 225 horses along with

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Dual Classic Winner Afleet Alex Retired

Cash is King Stable’s Afleet Alex, winner of this year’s Preakness and Belmont Stakes (both gr. I), has been retired. Trainer Tim Ritchey announced Thursday the son of Northern Afleet has been retired due to a recently detected injury believed t

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Coping in the Wake of Fair Hill Barn Fire

The sight is devastating. Charred posts and jagged pieces of tin are jutting into the air from the blackened remains of what was a 40-stall horse barn on the peaceful rolling hills of the Fair Hill Training Center.


Just to the left of on

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Painter Richard Stone Reeves Dies at 85

Richard Stone Reeves, perhaps the greatest modern-day horse painter, died Oct. 7 at Eastern Long Island Hospital in Greenport, N.Y. He was 85.


Over the years, Reeves had been commissioned by top owners and breeders to paint portraits of

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Kentucky Considered for 2010 World Games

The Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Ky. is one of three locations being considered to host the 2010 World Equestrian Games (WEG). The Federation Equestre Internationale (FEI, the governing body for international equestrian sport), will announc

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Two Horses Shot in Oregon; One Dies

“It’s just the biggest heartbreak you can imagine,” said Doris Mataya, owner of Laddie, a 14-month-old registered Paint colt and his pregnant dam, Lady. The two horses were shot multiple times in Mataya’s pasture between midnight and 7 a.m. on

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Filly’s Burned Tail Amputated

Dixie, the spotted saddle horse who was set on fire on Aug. 19, had to have her tail amputated, said her owner, Vonda Hamilton, of Erwin, N.C.


Brian Garrett, DVM, had given Dixie a 60% chance of survival following the attack, but though

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Veterinarian Alexander Harthill Dead at 80

Alexander Harthill, DVM, a renowned Central Kentucky racehorse veterinarian known as “Derby Doc” to his colleagues, died July 16 at 80 years old.

Harthill died at Hospice and Palliative Care in Louisville, Ky., after complications from a

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Horse in Australia Identified as Samood

The horse believed to have been Dubai Excellence when sold to stand at stud in Australia has been identified as Samood.


Michael Ford, keeper of the Australian Stud Book, confirmed that recent DNA test have confirmed the horse presently i

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Florida Stallion Tour d’Or Dead

Prominent Florida stallion Tour d’Or, one of the last major stallions stemming from Secretariat’s male line, was euthanatized in late July after foundering. The 23-year-old Secretariat grandson by Canadian champion Medaille d’Or stood since the

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Another “Seabiscuit” Equine Actor Retired

A Thoroughbred retirement organization has purchased one of the 10 horses that portrayed Seabiscuit in the 2003 film about the horse, says the Miami Herald in a July 21 article.


The Herald article quoted Michael Blowen,

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