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Equestrian features from around the world.

Keisha with a visitor while she is recuperating.
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Horse ambulance a life saver for winning race filly Keisha

September 1, 2021September 1, 2021 Jo Starr 10764 Views 3 Comments

A quick-thinking driver and a custom-built horse ambulance helped save the life of a filly who sustained a fractured tibia mid race.

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Duke was rescued as a foal in May 2020.
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From abandoned foal to YouTube star: Teeny, tiny Duke makes his debut

September 1, 2021 Horsetalk.co.nz 9997 Views 0 Comments

Equestrian vlogger This Esme shares her first week with rescued Welshie Duke, a tiny pony with a huge personality.

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Para dressage horse Solitaer40, ridden by Kate Shoemaker (USA) at Tokyo 2020.
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The amazing “sixth sense” of para-equestrian horses

August 30, 2021September 2, 2021 Horsetalk.co.nz 6900 Views 0 Comments Olympics 2020

“As living beings with thoughts and feelings of their own, horses are extremely sensitive to the specific needs of an athlete’s disability, and are highly perceptive to verbal and non-verbal cues.”

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Exmoor ponies in the Milovice Nature Reserve. Photo: Atillak, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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Grazing horses benefit butterflies in Czech conservation initiative

August 30, 2021 Horsetalk.co.nz 6044 Views 0 Comments

The presence of horses, cattle and bison presumably increased butterfly species richness and abundance by altering vegetation conditions.

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Grade IV individual gold medalist Sanne Voets with Demantur at Tokyo 2020.
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Para riders prepare to strut their freestyle stuff at Tokyo 2020

August 30, 2021August 31, 2021 Horsetalk.co.nz 4874 Views 0 Comments Olympics 2020

“When the horse, rider and music all come together in a perfect fit, that’s when the magic happens.”

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Rich Fellers and Flexible in 2014.
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Showjumping’s “comeback king” Flexible dies at 25

August 28, 2021August 31, 2021 Horsetalk.co.nz 7126 Views 0 Comments Obituary

Flexible, who has died peacefully in his paddock, overcame three potentially career-ending health issues to stay at the top of the game.

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Charlie Watts has died at the age of 80.
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Arabian horse breeder, Rolling Stone drummer Charlie Watts dies at 80

August 25, 2021August 28, 2021 Horsetalk.co.nz 18379 Views 2 Comments Obituary

Best known for being part of one of the world’s most enduring rock bands, Charlie Watts was also well known in equestrian circles for the breeding of Polish Arabian horses.

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The FDA says: "You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y'all. Stop it."
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FDA on ivermectin use for Covid: “You are not a horse. Stop it”

August 24, 2021August 28, 2021 Horsetalk.co.nz 6381 Views 0 Comments

“Animal drugs are often highly concentrated because they are used for large animals like horses and cows, which can weigh a lot more than we do. Such high doses can be highly toxic in humans.”

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Horses being transported to slaughter in Europe. Proposals have been put to the UK and Welsh Governments to halve the current maximum journey length to 12 hours.
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Maximum long distance horse transport limit put to UK Government

August 23, 2021August 28, 2021 Horsetalk.co.nz 6125 Views 0 Comments Slaughter

A proposal to halve the current maximum journey length to 12 hours have the support of international charity World Horse Welfare.

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Sanne Voets of The Netherlands on Demantur N.O.P. at the 2018 World Equestrian Games.
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Hot competition expected among para dressage riders at Tokyo 2020

August 23, 2021August 28, 2021 Horsetalk.co.nz 6557 Views 0 Comments Olympics 2020

There are 78 Para-Equestrian riders from 27 nations taking part in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Among them, one of the sport’s most enduring athletes, a strong contender for a ‘triple-triple’ and a Para-Equestrian legend going for a record number of medals.

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Wild horses from the Onaqui HMA in Utah, which was recently gathered by helicopter.
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The outrageous treatment of America’s wild horses and their legal habitat

August 22, 2021September 1, 2021 Craig C. Downer 59379 Views 45 Comments Comment, Wild horses

The so-called “Path Forward” plan presently adopted by BLM and USFS is, in my professional opinion as a wild-horse ecologist, a “wipeout” plan, in that it “wipes out” generations of natural adaptation to the particular ecosystems from which these equines came.

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“Para Sports, like Para Equestrian, have shown the world that a disability is only disabling when it prevents someone from doing what they really want to do.”
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#WeThe15: Horse sport’s FEI backs global disability campaign

August 21, 2021August 28, 2021 Horsetalk.co.nz 9396 Views 0 Comments Olympics 2020

A global movement to represent the world’s 1.2 billion people with disabilities has been launched by the International Paralympic Committee

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Saint Boy at the Minakuchi Riding Club in Shiga Prefecture on August 11.
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Shorter course, improved welfare promised for pentathlon horses

August 20, 2021August 28, 2021 Horsetalk.co.nz 9037 Views 0 Comments Olympics 2020

A simpler course with lower obstacles will be part of the “new” Modern Pentathlon format to be introduced in 2022.

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A sweet pony named Doughnut is looking for a new home where he can hang out with equines his own age.
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One-eyed, super-cute pony Doughnut seeking a new home

August 18, 2021August 22, 2021 Horsetalk.co.nz 4601 Views 0 Comments

Doughnut, 21, is on the mend after having an eye removed. The 11.2hh native pony is looking for a new home with ponies close to his own age.

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The free CHIO Aachen app.
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Aachen horse show goes paperless in new sustainability initiative

August 18, 2021 Horsetalk.co.nz 1614 Views 0 Comments

No more paper or plastic bags at Aachen as show strives to avoid waste and improve sustainability.

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Racing in the US finally has its chance to “right our badly listing ship” following an emphatic showing of support for the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act (HISA) from Jockey Club Chairman Stuart S. Janney III.
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US racing’s new Act the best chance for reform, Jockey Club boss says

August 16, 2021August 18, 2021 Horsetalk.co.nz 2250 Views 0 Comments EAS, OTTB

“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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Mastercraftsman 2006-2021.
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Laminitis, heart attack claim leading thoroughbred sires in their prime

August 15, 2021August 18, 2021 Horsetalk.co.nz 3224 Views 0 Comments Laminitis, Obituary

Berardini, 18, has succumbed to complications related to laminitis, and Mastercraftsman, 15, has died of a heart attack.

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The arena for the jumping phase of the women's modern pentathlon.
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PETA seeks an end to horse sports at the Olympics

August 15, 2021August 18, 2021 Horsetalk.co.nz 5420 Views 0 Comments Olympics 2020

A senior PETA official writes to International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach outlining the organisation’s concerns.

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Isabell Werth and Bella Rose competing in the Deutsche Bank Prize 2019.
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Bye, bye, Bella: Retirement for star dressage mare Bella Rosa

August 14, 2021August 16, 2021 Horsetalk.co.nz 7884 Views 0 Comments

Isabell Werth’s star mare Bella Rose will have one last competition before she is retired at Aachen next month.

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Three neglected donkeys whose hooves had grown so long they were struggling to walk, are now recovering.
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Hoofing it on the road to recovery: Abandoned trio nursed back to health

August 14, 2021August 17, 2021 Horsetalk.co.nz 6176 Views 0 Comments

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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