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Horse Business
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$4.5 Million to Be Awarded at Cinch National Finals of Team Roping
The United States Team Roping Championships (USTRC), the national governing body for the sport of team roping, is set to host more than 7,000 teams as it stages the estimated $4.5 million Cinch USTRC National Finals of Team Roping October 22-30 in Oklahom
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America's Favorite Equestrian
America's Favorite Equestrian is an interactive fundraising effort presented jointly in partnership by The EQUUS Foundation and The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) to raise funds to advance the equestrian sport on an annual basis.
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Amicus Equine "Pay It Forward" Program
The equine lifestyle is a special one. It is hard to put into words the bond between a rider and their horse. Yet so often we forget how fortunate not only we are, but our horses as well.
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Arizona Governor Signs Horse/Ag Bill
Gov. Jan Brewer has signed legislation that will codify a property tax break for commercial horse properties. Brewer's short signing letter said the bill "statutorily clarifies the treatment of equine properties as agricultural." Her staff was
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ASPCA Concerned About BLM
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, is reminding everyone that comments addressed to The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the agency that oversees our countryâs wild horses and burros, are due by today, March 30, 2011, on
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Merck Appoints New Executive
Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced the appointment of Richard R. DeLuca Jr. as executive vice president and president, Merck Animal Health, effective September 15, 2011. DeLuca, 48, will report to Kenne
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Baucus Supports End of Ban on Horse Slaughter
Montana's senior U.S. Senator Max Baucus applauded House and Senate Appropriations Committee leaders for answering his call to end a misguided ban on domestic horse slaughter. House and Senate Appropriations Committees eliminated the ban in the Agric
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BLM Hosting Wild Horse Tour
The Bureau of Land Management is hosting an all-day public tour of two wild horse long-term holding pastures in Hominy, Oklahoma, about an hour from Tulsa. The tour, which will take place on Saturday, June 4, 2011, from 8 a.m. â 5 p.m., will give the pu
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Wild Horses Threatened by Government Agencies
According to Joe Camp, writer, creator of Benji, and an authority on wild horses, a new court battle "to once and for all give wild horses their rightful place as an Indigenous Native Species in the Western United States" is taking place right now.
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Breeders Cutting Thoroughbred Population
Geoffrey Russell, Keeneland's director of sales, has a message for the struggling Thoroughbred industry. Breeders have done what was needed on their part to get the business [no-glossary]out of its slump; now help is needed from elsewhere.