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United States Equestrian Federation Seeks Artists to Design Prestigious Award
The inaugural presentation of the United States Equestrian Federation (USEF)
EQUUS Foundation Humanitarian Award will take place at the USEF Pegasus Awards
Dinner during the Federation's Annual Meeting on January 16, 2010.
The EQUUS Foundation is searching for equine artists to design the... | read »
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Drug Testing Comes to Polo
Months after the freak death of 21 polo ponies in Palm Beach County, the
United States Polo Association says it will start to randomly test ponies.
A common dietary supplement, selenium, can be fatal in large doses. The
ponies that died in Florida had extremely high levels of selenium in... | read »
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Soft Market for Hunters/Jumpers
The New York Times recently took a rare look at the market for Hunter/Jumper
horses.
The article entitled, For Equestrians, A Buyers Market in Horses, ran in the
business section of the New York Times two weeks ago. The article speculated
that prices on sport horses in the hunter/jumper... | read »
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British Study Blames Mismatch Between Horse and Rider for Horseback Riding Dangers
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) recently reported on a study
performed by Professor David Nutt noting that horseback riding in the UK
accounted for 10 deaths and 100 traffic accidents each year.
Dr. Nutt told the BBC he found many serious accidents resulted from a
"mismatch... | read »
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Horse Found, Cowboy Still Missing
A riderless palomino, which belongs to 45-year-old Gene Roberts, was found
tangled in the bottomlands near Dayton, Texas.
Roberts was chasing an errant cow when the Trinity River began overflowing.
The horse was tangled in the underbrush and his saddle had slipped.
The cowboy was wearing a... | read »
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AAEP Foundation Identifies Equine Research Needs
An American Association of Equine Practitioners Foundation study has
identified the areas of horse health that have the most pressing need for
research.
Equine veterinarians participated in the 2009 AAEP Membership Equine Research
Study to assist the equine industry in directing its... | read »
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Pulitzer Winner Turns to Horses, Again
Jane Smiley, Pulitzer Prize recipient and author of "Horse Heaven" and "A
Year at the Races" has released a young adult novel geared toward horse-loving
girls.
In the story, "The Georges and the Jewels,"12-year-old Abby Lovitt's father
buys and sells horses, and Abby is his helper, riding... | read »
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Red Sox Success Could Bring Back Boston Mounted Unit
The Boston Herald is reporting that city officials are concerned about crowd
control should the Boston Red Sox make the World Series. In the past, the
Boston Police Department had used its mounted force to control rioting crowds at
Fenway Park after the Red Sox won the World Series in 2004.... | read »
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Birth Control for West’s Wild Herds?
The Washington Post is reporting that the government plans to sterilize wild
horse herds and relocate some to sanctuaries, according to Interior Secretary
Ken Salazar. "We have a huge problem -- out-of-control populations of wild
horses and burros on our public lands," Salazar told the Post... | read »
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Cattle Drug May Eliminate Equine Parasite
Sciencedaily.com reports that researchers studying imidocarb dipropionate,
used to treat diseases like Texas fever, also referred to as cattle fever or
babesiosis in cattle, found it may be effective for horses as well. B.
caballi, a blood parasite transmitted by ticks, is one of the culprits... | read »
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| The registration of more than 2 million of the now more than 5 million horses in
the American Quarter Horse Association registry and a growth in membership
numbers from 276,500 to more than 350,000 are examples of the success of the
customer service-driven management model that Bill Brewer... | read |
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