Heading into the Labor Day holiday weekend, the Breeders’ Cup has enjoyed a significant increase in ticket revenue compared with last year’s comparable figures.
A Stormy Atlantic filly brought $124,012 ($130,000 Canadian) to top the selected session of the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society (Ontario Division) Canadian-bred yearling sale on Tuesday at the Woodbine Sales Pavilion in Toronto.
The first mare in foal to 2009 European Horse of the Year Sea The Stars to be offered at public auction is scheduled to go through the ring at the Goffs November breeding stock sale.
Shoppers at 166 Kroger stores in four states will be able to purchase Flex Grounds Pass tickets to the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games along with their grocery items from Sept. 1 - Sept. 24.
Kroger stores in Central Tennessee, Southern Illinois,...
Exercise intolerance often is first sign that a performance horse has an abnormal heart rhythm, said Kelsey A. Hart, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM, internal medicine clinician and graduate fellow in the department of large animal medicine at the University...
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has asked the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council (NAS/NRC), an independent, nonprofit group that advises government agencies on scientific issues, to review the agency's Wild Horse and Burro...
Know the facts on Horse Slaughter: Each year nearly 100,000 horses are slaughtered in the United States and processed for human consumption. In addition, many thousands of live horses are transported across the border to Canada for slaughter. After these horses are killed, their flesh is shipped to Europe and Asia for human consumption. Their owners are often totally unaware of the pain, fear, and suffering their horses endure before being slaughtered.
Get Involved! National Horse Protection League: A new online community dedicated to making every horse a wanted horse. Their mission is simple: to protect horses and help owners who can no longer care for their animals find a humane and loving alternative to cruel death or abandonment. Their immediate focus is on pressuring Congress to pass legislation that closes the slaughter houses for good.
Millionaire 7-year-old Grand Couturier has not been a factor in four starts this season, but his connections are hoping he will return to form in a race he won a year ago, the Bowling Green Handicap (gr. IIT) at Belmont.
Subfertility of breeding stallions -- meaning the horses are less able to sire foals -- is a well-recognized problem that has caused multi-million-dollar losses in the equine industry, experts say. Researchers believe they are making progress in solving the problem by using an approach that might provide tools and resources necessary to study subfertility without causing stallions the angst of providing testicular samples for testing.
Researchers have achieved another cloning first with the successful delivery of a foal using oocytes from a live mare, the first such clone in the world.
The same mutated gene that makes humans more susceptible to the potentially fatal West Nile virus is also responsible for the virus affecting horses, according to scientists in Australia.
Quality Road drew off to win the Woodward at Saratoga on Saturday by 4 3/4 lengths as the heavy favorite. Also on the card, Here Comes Ben was an upset winner in the Forego while C.S. Silk won the Addison Mallery Stakes. Get the results, charts, and photos here.
Mystician was a big upset in the $1 million Metro Pace at Mohawk on Saturday night. Also on the card, Idyllic won the She's a Great Lady stakes and Won the West took the Canadian Pacing Derby. Get the results, charts, and photos here.
She ran her down in the stretch to win by a length with Life at Ten finishing third. Get the results, chart, and photos here.
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Lost Soldier, sire of 2005 champion sprinter Lost in the Fog, died on Tuesday in his paddock at Doug Arnold’s Buck Pond Farm in Versailles, Kentucky.
El Don Quixote scored a 7 ½-length victory in a 5 ½-furlong maiden special weight race on Monday at Remington Park to become the first winner for English stakes winner and freshman sire Miguel Cervantes.
Victor Man drew clear to a 7 ÂĽ-length victory in his career debut in a six-furlong maiden special weight race for Alberta-breds on Monday at Northlands Park to become the first winner for stakes-placed winner and freshman sire Run to Victory.
Heading into the Labor Day holiday weekend, the Breeders’ Cup has enjoyed a significant increase in ticket revenue compared with last year’s comparable figures.
After posting an upset victory in the Forego Stakes (G1) on September 4 at Saratoga Race Course, suddenly Here Comes Ben appears to be one of the hottest sprinters in the country.
