Discussions about the welfare of our equine friends
The BLM is seeking public comment on two potential wild horse gathers this summer or fall to help maintain healthy wild horse populations on healthy lands in Northwest Colorado.
Several equine veterinary and horse welfare groups are hoping to help victims—humans and animals alike—of a volcano eruption in Guatemala.
Justify’s connections have committed to donating a percentage of earnings from Saturday’s Belmont Stakes to support New Vocations’ mission to rehabilitate, retrain, and rehome retired racehorses.
The U.S. Forest Service is planning to gather approximately 1,000 wild horses from the Devil’s Garden Plateau Wild Horse Territory.
More experienced riders held their eyes on a specific point more frequently than less experienced riders, who shifted their vision frequently to look at more things, researchers found.
The BLM Idaho’s Owyhee Field Office will release 26 wild horses to the Sands Basin Herd Management Area, nearly all of which was burned by the 279,144-acre Soda Fire in 2015,
The Charleston Carriage Company is accusing the Charleston Animal Society, Ellen Harley, and Charleston Carriage Horse Advocates with decimating false information about a 2016 incident involving one of its carriage horses.
Crews responded to a fire in a barn housing 24 horses at the Mount Hope Training Center, in Middletown, in the early hours of June 2 and were unable to save any horses.
The Deerwood Wild Horse Ecosanctuary, in Laramie, Wyoming, in partnership with the BLM, will host a free public day on June 9, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The BLM plans to remove all wild horses from in and outside herd area boundaries because there are insufficient resources available to maintain healthy horses and rangelands over the long-term.
Researchers said many equestrians’ “preconceived ideas” about behaviors they associate with mares, stallions, and geldings could have serious consequences for training and welfare.
Dr. Pamela Wilkins, a professor at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine since 2008, received the Boehringer-Ingelheim WEVA Applied Research Award in April.
The nonprofit Salt River Wild Horse Management Group will oversee the Arizona herd’s day-to-day management.
Horseback riding is a unique sport, in that it’s an “individual” sport with two participants—horse and rider. That also makes it special in the way it’s coached and learned, researchers say.
It’s the question that always ignites a fierce debate in the racing world: Should people be able to race Thoroughbreds under the influence of therapeutic medication?
A Colorado man has been charged with setting a barn fire that killed six horses earlier this year.
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