The European horses have arrived at Churchill Downs for Friday and Saturday’s exciting Breeders Cup races. This little video shows you the convoy of horse vans bringing them to the track, and the grand dame herself, France’s Goldikova, stepping lightly…
For research underpinning the humane treatment of horses in sport, and the whipping of racehorses by jockeys during Thoroughbred races in particular, Professor Paul McGreevy and his team at the University of Sydney Faculty of Veterinary Science receive…
Eventers from around the world will launch a calendar fundraiser at the 2011 Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials. The goal? This project is specifically planned to raise money to get Claire Lomas, an event rider who was paralyzed from the chest down in a …
Journalist Darryl Chamberlain visited the site of the equestrian events for the 2012 Olympic Games, in London’s Greenwich Park, just before the start of the July 2011 Greenwich Park Eventing Invitational, or London 2012 Equestrian “Test Event” and pro…
The Veterinary Teaching Hospital at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington is closed and has been placed under a voluntary quarantine following the admission of a cutting horse that had been at an event in Utah last weekend. Upon examinati…
Horse deaths this week in California and Colorado have been linked to suspected exposure to the neurologic form of Equine Herpes Virus at a cutting horse event over Mother’s Day weekend in Utah. Animal health officials in at least three states are inve…
A second farm in Colts Neck, New Jersey has been quarantined by state officials as part of an effort to protect horses in the state from an outbreak of the neurological form of Equine Herpes Virus, Type One.