America’s Horse, July 30, 2008 – The American Quarter Horse Foundation is proud to announce the 2008 America’s Horse Cares grant recipients. America’s Horse Cares is a program of the Foundation that funds therapeutic riding centers.
In order to receive funding through America’s Horse Cares, the center must be certified as a North American Riding for the Handicapped Association-approved [...]
America’s Horse, July 30, 2008 – The American Quarter Horse Association and the Cowboy Mounted Shooting Association have joined forces to promote the exciting sport of mounted shooting and the usefulness of the American Quarter Horse in shooting competitions.
Long known as the world’s most versatile horse, American Quarter Horses are displaying their quickness and dependability in [...]
In a brief survey of online news, there have been reports of rabies in Florida, Idaho, Kentucky, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Missouri, New Hampshire, and Texas this year. Many of these reports involved humans encountering rabid wild animals that were captured and subsequently tested positive. Continue reading…
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Aggressive research efforts to discover how the sarcoid-causing bovine papillomaviruses (BPV) are spread either within or between horses have resulted in the identification of BPV genetic material (DNA) in circulating blood cells. This novel finding suggests a possible mechanism by which horses prone to developing sarcoids become latently (invisibly) infected and potentially contribute to the [...]
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In 1968, the U.S. Surgeon General proclaimed that the war on infectious diseases had been won. Unfortunately, this statement was not true. Ongoing outbreaks of disease in humans and animals worldwide have established repeatedly that the war on infectious diseases is not over. Outbreaks of infectious diseases in horses will continue to occur as surely [...]
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FORT WORTH, Texas—The American Paint Horse Association’s (APHA) annual two-week World Championship Paint Horse Show run made its stop at the Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth, Texas, June 21 through July 5. Dubbed as “the largest Paint Horse show on earth,” the event lived up to its name as it saw 1,289 Paint [...]
America ’s Horse, July 25, 2008 – The American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame & Museum presents its first show and sale when “America’s Horse in Art…The Horse that settled the West” takes place August 14 through November 14. The exhibit will take up wall and floor space in the Scharbauer Gallery.
Most of the pieces [...]
The use of double-decker trailers to transport horses for any purpose would be banned nationwide if a new bill recently introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives becomes law. But some equine welfare advocates say the bill is flawed. Continue reading…
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In this exclusive report, The Blood-Horse investigates whether the Thoroughbred racehorse is as tough today as it was 30 to 40 years ago. Editors of The Blood-Horse recently sought the answer to this question by producing a comprehensive review of 34 years of historical Thoroughbred stallion progeny records pulled from The Jockey Club’s extensive database. [...]
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Lexington, Ky. – Join TheHorse.com and Heidi Brady, PhD, on Thursday, Aug. 7 at 8 p.m. EDT for a free live one-hour video presentation that will shed some light on the fight against parasite infection: Strategic Deworming, sponsored by Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health. Brady, accompanied by Wendy Vaala, DVM, will be available to answer viewer questions [...]
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