https://www.youtube.com/embed/8hTarWb0C9M?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&start=7&wmode=transparent First Taste of Freedom This horse was so hungry that she stuck her head in an electric fence looking for food. But now she’s gotten plenty to eat and feels like a whole new horse. Today she’s about to find out she has a whole field of grass to run in! via Starving horse becomes …
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We changed NPR’s published title which was “11th Racehorse Dies At Santa Anita Park Since December,” to the title above. Here’s why. It’s subtle, we know, but when reports say a racehorse dies or has died at a racetrack it sounds like it couldn’t be helped, or that the horse was somehow at fault. This […] …
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Photo showing the ‘as found’ condition of his corral, with water buckets flipped over and everybody looking the other way. RELATED: Tiny Footprints. via New Foal Day 14 — Western Horse Watchers Association
I have sat down to write a blog post close to a hundred times. I type it and then change my mind over and over again. I have sat down to write a blog post a handful of times. Typed it up, posted it, and then deleted it. I say a handful of times, but […] …
Check out this tweet. How do you feel about comparing the production of horses to the assembly line production of automobiles? via Ky Thoroughbred industry refers to breeding as assembly line production — Tuesday's Horse
© Jessica Hedges TWO GOOD FRIENDS by Ken Cook I’ll tell this one straightforward and try not to leave undone, the building of a friendship I watched while being spun. The scene, a grassy horse trap on a crisp October day after men had saddled up and rode out on their way. I spied a […] …
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The BloodHorse reports: Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine’s New Bolton Center have planned a multidisciplinary study to explore the effects of the combined use of Lasix and bisphosphonates in racehorses. Led by Dr. Mary Robinson, assistant professor of veterinary pharmacology and director of the Equine Pharmacology Laboratory at Penn Vet’s […] …
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https://www.youtube.com/embed/IlCIP2OSYyI?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent It is amazing how horse racing keeps on going. Always, always the same repeat offenders. It is time, well past time, for horse racing “American style” to go. They — not people like us who care about these horses — have brought them here. Many more racehorse doping arrests will be made. What we …
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1 tonne equals 2,205 pounds which equates to a total of approximately 1,746,019,229 pounds of horse meat produced around the globe in 2018 from approximately 5 million horses — a staggering 1.75 billion pounds of horse meat. via Horse slaughter and horse meat production — A global perspective — Tuesday's Horse
HORSE CANADA | by AMY HARRIS How would equine industry members describe the welfare status of Canadian horses? Which horses do they believe are the most at risk? And what do they believe threatens horse welfare? These are just some of the questions a research team at the University of Guelph set out to answer. […] …
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