Horse Slaughter
An end to Canada’s horse slaughter industry in sight?
Canadian Horse Defence Coalition Press Release ORANGEVILLE, Ontario — On May 31, 2012, the Canadian Horse Defence Coalition (CHDC) released its report “CFIA and the Art of Evasion” in response to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s deflection tactics to questions concerning the welfare of horses in Canada’s horse slaughter plants, as well as the safety [...]
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- Horse advocates want fines on NM slaughterhouse
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Thanks to O’Neill Joe Drape reports horse security tightened by New York Board
Cross-posted from the New York Times by JOE DRAPE The 144th running of the Belmont Stakes may or may not produce horse racing’s 12th Triple Crown champion, but New York racing officials are taking measures to ensure that I’ll Have Another’s bid to sweep the series is contested on a level playing field and without [...]
Allegan Mustangs freed on California sanctuary
Cross-posted from MLIVE Michigan Written by ROSEMARY PARKER ALLEGAN, MI — The Michigan Horse Welfare Coalition reports that four more mustangs from a herd whose adoptions failed after they were brought to Michigan have been sent back to California for release in a sanctuary there. The DreamCatcher Wild Horse & Burro Sanctuary is home, too, [...]
Penny Chenery speaks out on horse racing, drugs and the Triple Crown
UPDATED 9:17 pm EST “I think it is regrettable. And it isn’t the horse’s fault and this is probably a very good horse. I don’t know Mr. Reddam personally but I think he should be embarrassed that the trainer he has chosen does not have a clean record.” So states Penny Chenery, referring to the [...]
War horses: Remembering the millions who fought and died in human battles
There was a real-life model for the horse in the Steven Spielberg film “War Horse.” EILEEN BATTERSBY in a brilliant article for the Irish Times, writes: His name was Warrior, and he went to war in 1914 with his owner, a British general named Jack Seely. Both survived, defying even the horrors of the Somme. [...]
Sid Gustafson DVM discusses alkanization, Lasix and milkshaking
Cross-posted from The Rail, New York Times By SID GUSTAFSON DVM Human athletic regulators have deemed Lasix a doping agent, and horseracing regulators will eventually have to come to that appropriate conclusion. Lasix has significant potential to alter and enhance racehorse performance. As well, in my experience as both an attending veterinarian and a regulatory [...]
Ray Paulick asks when is a ‘milkshake’ not a milkshake. In horse racing.
Ray Paulick of the Paulick Report asks the $15,000 question: How does a horse get an elevated carbon dioxide level without being administered a “milkshake,” a procedure that involves tubing a mixture of baking soda, water, and possibly other substances into a horse’s stomach four to six hours before a race? The question is in [...]
Horse cloning and embryo transfer legal issues discussed
By UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE One of the hot topics discussed during the 27th Annual University of Kentucky Conference on Equine Law, held May 3, 2012, in Lexington, was the legal implications of cloning and embryo transfer in the horse industry. While the legalities of these topics are not discussed frequently in Kentucky, [...]
The O’Neill brothers, the meaning of milkshakes and fixing of horse races
Doug O’Neill, trainer of Triple Crown contender I’ll Have Another, seems an affable enough guy. But the most devilish among us usually have a charming side. What appalls me about Doug O’Neill is that he drugs racehorses then acts as if he knows absolutely nothing about it. His brother Dennis is even more unbelievable. He [...]
Horses and human history
From NIGEL TALLIS, Exhibition Curator, British Museum For 5000 years the horse has been an ever-present ally in war and peace. Civilisations have risen and fallen on their backs and evidence of the horse’s use is everywhere to be seen. Yet somehow, following the increasing pace of mechanisation in the 1930s, we have so quickly [...]
Tennessee Walking Horse trainer caught on video abusing horses offered probation in plea deal
DUANE GANG, writing for The Tennessean reports: CHATTANOOGA — A plea agreement with prosecutors likely will keep nationally known Tennessee Walking Horse trainer Jackie L. McConnell out of prison. McConnell, 60, featured in an undercover video beating and applying caustic chemicals to horses’ hooves, pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Chattanooga. He could have [...]
