For the first time in history, a Preakness winner was bred to a Preakness winner with the mating yesterday of Curlin, Horse of the Year in 2007-08, to Rachel Alexandra, Horse of the Year in 2009, at Lane's End Farm in Lexington, Ky.
According to sources in Lebanon, twenty-one race horses have been euthanized recently in an attempt to control the highly contagious Glanders disease.
Today, Windridge's programs assist more than 120 participants weekly in a 10-county region and employ six PATH Intl. Credentialed Professionals, two PATH Intl. instructors-in-training, 21 horses and more than 60 volunteers.
Defra, the Government's department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, has confirmed that a horse in Cornwall has tested positive for Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA), commonly known as 'swamp fever'.
Salmonella bacteria can be a deadly problem in horse barns, as evidenced by the outbreak at the University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton Center in May 2004. Since that outbreak, researchers have turned their attention to how the disease spreads and the
âDozens of fantastic horses are available for adoption and these historic mustangs are a beautiful array of paints and sorrels of various ages and sexes.â
âMichael Keaton, Katherine Heigl and Willie Nelson have joined a growing list of celebrities calling on Congress to pass legislation to protect horses from an abuse known as âsoring.â
So far, eight states have reported West Nile virus infections in mosquitoes, birds or veterinary animals and Mississippi has reported one human case.
For over twenty years, the Heritage Discovery Center and Rancho Del Sueno have conserved and cared for the herd of the Colonial Spanish Wilbur-Cruce Mission Horses; Now they are in desperate need of donations to keep the herd intact.
Trainer of I'll Have Another, Doug O'Neill, has been ordered  suspended for 45 days after a nearly two-year legal battle during which he  vigorously denied that he gave one of his horses an illegal performance-enhancing mixture.