Sport & Industry

The Palace and Park of Versailles, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is reading to host the equestrian disciplines for the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics.

Aachen is among the bidders for the 2026 FEI World Championships in six disciplines. It was the host of the 2006 World Equestrian Games.

Billed as the longest and toughest horse race in the world, the Mongol Derby has been won by a Scandinavian rider for the first time.

“Maintaining a robust, sustainable network of retirement and second-career opportunities for horses … means protecting them not only during their competitive careers, but after they’re no longer competitive, too.”

“The modern use and care of domestic and sport horses is largely at odds with the needs of nature,” Horse Sport Ireland’s Insights Report says.

Equine Guelph was the first centre in Canada to create a comprehensive online equine learning portal that included certificate and diploma programs.  

“Whilst we know it is not a long-term sustainable solution to ship food from the UK to Gambia, desperate times call for desperate measures.”

Dry salt therapy, also known as halotherapy, is said to help with respiratory and skin health in horses.

Veterinarians worked hard to save the life of Sunny, as a lipoma strangled eight feet of his small intestine. He was given a 10% chance of survival.

“The ethics of horse use concerns the moral proposition that individuals or society takes in relation to how horses ought to be treated.”

Despite the indispensable contribution working equines make to goals such as No Poverty, Water and Zero Hunger, they remain largely invisible in the eyes of decision and policy makers.

Charity staff in Spain are working hard to keep their equines cool and hydrated in the searing heat.

The 2022 Kentucky Equine Survey has measured and analysed core population, demographic, and economic data in the state’s signature equine industry.

Grant goes to help Pennsylvania-based event support the construction of more than 20 new fences.