There is no basis for any of the following other than the wisdom of a very wise old cowboy. Everyone called him Boss, because he was. He managed the horse corrals where I got my first real job. Boss was the perfect image of the old West, a tobacco-chewing, spittin'...
"When a horse gets older, you can expect physical changes. Typically, they lose muscle tone, and they certainly move a lot slower."Those words of wisdom are from a course I recently took on aging horses. Nothing surprising there, but the next day, in an entirely...
It isn’t unusual for us to bring in a horse that has been so starved, beaten, and abused that they have given up on the will to live. They are some of the hardest cases to bring back from the edge of death. There is...
Wildlife ecologist and champion of wild horses Craig C. Downer is fronting a new documentary showing the positive contributions that wild horses and burros make to ecosystems. Over the years Downer has been fighting to protect wild horses and burros from elimination on the...
“Rebecca is Superwoman,” says Barbara Mackey, Habitat for Horses board member and founder of the Bill and Barbara Mackey Foundation for Animal Welfare, run by the Greater Houston Community Foundation. “She is so tenacious, no matter what obstacles come up. She is there 24/7....
ARCADIA, Calif. (AP) — Santa Anita's troubled racing season has come to a close after the deaths of 30 horses at the Southern California track rattled the industry and led to Hall of Fame trainer Jerry Hollendorfer being banned when four of his horses were...
Equine herpesvirus myeloencephalopathy (EHM), the neurologic disease linked to equine herpesvirus type 1 (EHV-1), was confirmed in a Montgomery County, Texas, reining Quarter Horse on April 9, 2019. The positive horse attended a reining event in Ardmore, Oklahoma, the week of March 18. TAHC staff has...
The famed horse racing track, Santa Anita Park, is up and running after being closed for much of last month following a spike in racehorse deaths. Since the end of December 2018, 23 thoroughbreds have died — mostly due to injuries from racing or training....
When you think of horses at risk of performance-limiting respiratory disease, which ones top your list? Racehorses? Three-day eventers? While it’s true these equine athletes do require a properly functioning airway to perform at their best, researchers recently identified another group of horses in which...
TURTLECREEK TWP. — A horse drowned on Monday night during a race at Miami Valley Gaming and Racing in Warren County. Bill Crawford, executive director of the Ohio State Racing Commission, said driver Kayne Kauffman was knocked from the sulky cart being pulled by the horse during a...