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“What I saw … was a once in a lifetime opportunity to make the sport safer for horses and jockeys, to serve the overwhelming majority of horse people who want to win fairly and who want to play by the rules.”
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Study in northeast Oklahoma involved repeated full-body examinations of 88 horses for ticks.
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Berardini, 18, has succumbed to complications related to laminitis, and Mastercraftsman, 15, has died of a heart attack.
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A senior PETA official writes to International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach outlining the organisation’s concerns.
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Isabell Werth’s star mare Bella Rose will have one last competition before she is retired at Aachen next month.
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“Understanding the cause of impaired reproductive performance is essential in terms of maintaining productivity and efficient stud breeding strategies.”
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A brighter future awaits three donkeys who had been abandoned and left neglected on a British farm when their owner moved.
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“This study provides evidence that horses have high socio-cognitive abilities to understand not only the pointing gesture but also the attentional state of humans.”
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“A reluctantly aging former Olympian maneuvers to maintain control of his tiny equestrian fiefdom of moneyed misfits in small-town Texas.”
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World Horse Welfare’s popular rescue pony Moses is heading to a new home, as the charity’s four centres prepare to open to the public after a year-long pandemic-pause.
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Despite health warnings against its use in humans, farm supply stores in the US report increased demand for non-prescription invermectin products intended for animal use.
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Chlamydia psittaci is an emerging pathogen that must be included in routine microbiological diagnostic testing of all equine abortions, researchers say.
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“We are disappointed the Senate continues to treat the ongoing slaughter of tens of thousands of horses as anything but an urgent matter.”
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Rome’s ancient Circo Massimo, home to chariot racing more than 2000 years ago, will host a showjumping event for the next five years.
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More than 85% of respondents have experienced an increase in horse-keeping costs, findings show.
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Changes to Modern Pentathlon are planned for the next Olympics, and both the world and British governing bodies are undertaking a review of the women’s competition at Tokyo 2020.
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“The new hepatitis B virus appears to use an unknown receptor for entry into the host cell,” the researchers report.
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Hay supplementation reduces bacterial diversity, but a rich range of bacteria remained present, researchers found.
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“Transportation can induce stress in healthy donkeys and have some effect on the composition of the fecal microbiota.”
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Britain’s Joe Choong won gold in the men’s Modern Pentathlon at Tokyo 2020, with the jumping contest running rather more smoothly than the women’s event.
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