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March 30, 2007

Three cutting-edge horse research projects have been awarded nearly $NZ500,000 in grants from a Canadian research fund.

The $NZ498,000 given by the Heather Ryan and L. David Dubé Veterinary Health and Research Fund will be used by scientists based at the University of Saskatchewan’s Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM) to investigate equine endotoxemia, neonatal Rhodococcus equi pneumonia, and genetic ocular disorders. Continue Reading »

Found this in the Chicagoist.com this afternoon.

March 30, 2007

Chicagoist hasn’t ever eaten horse meat. We don’t really have a moral objection to it, any more than we have a moral objection to eating veal, lamb, chicken, frog legs, fois gras, and on and on; we just haven’t eaten it.

But some people do have a moral objection, and those people are feeling pretty happy after the nation’s only operational horse slaughterhouse, DeKalb County-based Cavel International Inc., Continue Reading »

Howdy from South Africa!

I am in the process of immigrating to Canada, and often visit the NorthernHorse website (looking for my potential new horse, LOL) and I really like the new look. I just wanted to say well done!

I like the provincial flags next to the links, that helps a lot! I will be moving to Saskatchewan, hopefully by middle July this year.

Keep up the good work!
Kind Regards
Liezel Hattingh
Pretoria, South Africa.

The Ontario Harness Horse Association is once again offering its members the chance to win tuition to a course offered by the Equine Science Certificate Program at Equine Guelph.

The Equine Science Certificate program allows students to study equine science affordably and conveniently, using the internet on their own computers. Continue Reading »

National Geographic has a beautiful free wallpaper you can download. It is a picture of Francois Gauthier riding Snow Gun at the World Equestrian Games.

Langley, BC
By Anne Patterson
Mar 25 2007

The newest addition to the local Langley, BC riding club scene is dedicated to the proposition that size does matter.

The BC Draft Under Saddle Club, started last year by Andrea Walker and Dawn Germscheid, was created by two heavy horse lovers who wanted to create opportunities to show draft and draft-crosses in their own classes. Continue Reading »

You can now hide the map that automatically appears within your ad. To turn your map on or off, please log-in and choose to ‘edit’ your ad. You will see the new map toggle just above the horse location fields.

Credit:
Lorianne Garrison, The Ottawa Citizen, ottawa citizen
Published: Monday, March 12, 2007

A major Ottawa horse show that brought an average of 20,000 people to the area each year has been canceled over a financial conflict with the city.

The 2007 Capital Classic Show Jumping Tournament and Festival won’t run this year because the city downloaded expenses to the event and increased show costs by 70 per cent,  Capital Classic president Ralph Shaw said Monday.

The show had been paying $30,000 rent a year to use the 270-acre Nepean National Equestrian Park, including upkeep like watering the grounds, staffing the park and extraneous costs that the city now says  must come from the show’s coffers, Mr. Shaw said. Continue Reading »

Credit:
Bloodhorse.com

http://news.bloodhorse.com/

The newly completed equine genome map will be an invaluable asset for those looking to breed and manage the ideal equine athlete, as well as giving researchers a whole new set of tools for investigating equine disease.

According to Dr. Claire Wade, a senior research scientist at the Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, by testing horses for an array of genetic traits linked to athleticism, it will be easier to decide which horses are likely to succeed. Continue Reading »

Police in Hong Kong are investigating an elaborate device found embedded in the turf at a world-famous horse track which was apparently designed to shoot poison darts at the horses at the start of a race.

A track supervisor unearthed the device on Wednesday morning while making routine checks of the starting points for races scheduled that evening at the Happy Valley racetrack, according to the statement released by the Hong Kong Jockey Club. Continue Reading »