Welfare and Industry

Discussions about the welfare of our equine friends

Dutch Rescuers Succeed in Saving Horses

Rescuers on horseback lured a stranded herd of about 100 horses off a mud-soaked knoll where they had been stranded for three days and led them through receding floodwaters to safe ground Friday.

Before they could be saved, 19 horses drowne

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Mother, Daughter Sell Art to Cover Cost of Horse Care

It all started with a blind horse.


Dianne Hooker said her daughter Fawn, now 14, went horseback riding for the first time when she was seven years old and became completely enthralled with the animal.


“She fell in love with

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Fla. Donkey Draggers Going to Jail

Two Escambia County, Fla., men accused of dragging a donkey behind their pickup will be going to jail. Matthew Ramsey and Terry Skinner were sentenced yesterday to nearly a year in jail and placed on two years’ probation.

They will also hav

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For Love or Money?

Was it for love, or money? H.L. Mencken wrote that when someone says “it’s not about the money,” it is about the money. This cynicism is more clever than true. For most of us, most of the time, it’s about both. It has to be.

Let’s be

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Therapeutic Riding Center to be Featured in

The Saddle Club will feature the Flying Changes Center for Therapeutic Riding of Topsham, Maine, in two special Saddle Club Video Journals to be broadcast on public television stations across America in November 2006.

The

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Vartanian Accused of Methamphetamine Violation

The California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) has filed an accusation against Thoroughbred racehorse trainer Gregory Vartanian for several rule violations after a horse in his care tested positive for the Class 1 prohibited substance methamphetamine

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Missing Selle Francais Stallion Found Deceased

A Selle Francais stallion reported missing from Cherokee County, Ga., last month had fallen in a well on the property where he lived. Venus Du Vey’s owner, Anne DuPard, has thanked the horse community for its support and a fund has been set up i

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