Soring horses to induce the “big lick” is far from the only questionable training & show tactic SHELBYVILLE, Tennessee––Keith Dane, senior director of equine protection for the Humane Society of the United States, was optimistic after the 86th annual Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration in Shelbyville, Tennessee concluded over the Labor Day weekend that an end […]
Wild horses: reintroduced in Kazakhstan, shot Down Under, gathered here
A horse is a horse is a horse of course, except in public policy PRAGUE, SYDNEY, WASHINGTON D.C.––Conservationists on June 7, 2024 paradoxically cheered the simultaneous reintroduction of wild horses to Kazakhstan and Mongolia, and the ongoing massacre of 8,000 wild horses in Kosciuszko National Park, New South Wales, Australia, with another 5,000 slated to […]
Wild horses chased by choppers in U.S.; shot from choppers in Australia
Australia has no Wild & Free-Roaming Horses & Burros Act DAVIS, California; SYDNEY, Australia––“Now through February,” American Wild Horse Campaign currently warns via social media, “over 7,000 wild horses will be chased by helicopters, ripped from their families, injured, or in the worst case, killed. “The survivors will be funneled into overburdened holding facilities, sometimes […]
Spain seeks more wild horses, even as U.S. & Australia seek fewer
Wild horses are being reintroduced in part to help prevent wildfires MADRID, Spain––Wild horses have been restored, in the names of fire prevention and protecting biodiversity, to three different Spanish conservation areas, scattered across the northwestern Iberian peninsula, and are actively conserved and protected in another, to the extreme south. The Spanish horse restorations come […]
Fire, horses, & Santa Anita: ashes, ashes, they all fall down?
A global warming connection to record racehorse deaths? ARCADIA, California––All eyes concerned about horses and horse racing have had the Santa Anita Park turf and track surfaces under microscopic examination since Ash Wednesday, March 6, 2019. Yet hardly anyone so far seems to be looking at the possible track-hardening effects of soot and ash deposition […]
Down Under drive to kill brumby wild horses brings bill to save them
Man from Monaro stands in the bootprints of The Man From Snowy River SYDNEY, Australia––In a reversal of fortune as abrupt as a stallion wheeling on hind legs to strike at an aggressive rival, the wild horses of Kosciuszko National Park in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales are suddenly slated for protected […]
Under the Skin: How ejiao threatens the common ass
The Donkey Sanctuary saddles up Free download from https://www.thedonkeysanctuary.org.uk/under-the-skin/full-report Reviewed by Merritt Clifton BEIJING––Can demand for a commodity that constitutes only one ten-thousandth of the global market for traditional Chinese medicine really pose what Donkey Rescue World blogger David C. Duncan calls “an existential threat” to barnyard animals as abundant worldwide as donkeys? This is […]
Pimlico death again raises question: why do bettors favor beaten horses?
Did “a right-handed rousing” contribute to winning horse’s apparent cardiovascular collapse? BALTIMORE, Maryland––“Rallied under a right-handed rousing” by jockey Horacio Karamanos, according to the Pimlico Race Course chart-writer, the official record-keeper for the race, Homeboykris charged from behind to win the first race of the May 21, 2016 card culminating in the Preakness Stakes, the second […]
Eight times as many wild horses Down Under as in U.S., plus camels
Contraception considered but more culling expected SYDNEY, Australia; DENVER, Colorado––The brumby issue in Australia and the mustang issue in the U.S. differ chiefly in that the Australian federal government estimates it is dealing with about five times as many wild horses, sharing habitat with livestock and feral camels. While the U.S. now has nearly 80,000 […]