South Valley business owner to release children’s book on rescue horses

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (May 20, 2024) — Kendra Loring has been working with rescue horses at Enchanted Equine Adventures since 2013. That’s when she set out to give the horses a new purpose in life.  Loring says they work to teach the horses to be used for riding lessons, including therapy rides. “Therapeutic horseback riding is…

Illegal racetrack secretly built in Valencia County

Illegal horse racing has been taking place across the U.S. for quite some time, usually in offbeat, out of the way areas mostly in temporary, makeshift circumstances. Alarming as that is, there is now other disturbing news — an illegal racetrack is being built in Valencia County, New Mexico, and their potential neighbors are anything…

Wild horses still protected under prevailing laws in New Mexico

WILD HORSES (Ruidoso News, Mar. 28, 2017)   —  With the dust finally settling on the New Mexico Legislature’s 2017 session, most of the bills and memorials dealing with wild horses died in committee. The dead include House Bill 446 called Wild Horse in Statute and the accompanying House Memorial 102, Protection of Wild Horses.…

Horseracing Wrongs reports 32 deaths at Sunland Park in 2014

Horse racing in the United States regularly kills its horses. This is not news to horse advocates. We know how and we know why. We have covered horse racing extensively over the years. We have been able to excel at this with the contributions of Jane Allin's well detailed and documented reports. Major newspapers have…

Lujan Grisham to challenge zoo’s purchase of horse meat

• Cross-posted from Channel 4 KOB, Albuquerque, NM » New Mexicans who oppose the slaughter of horses may soon score another victory as U.S. Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-NM) prepares to pick a battle with the Albuquerque BioPark. Few zoo visitors were aware that New Mexico's largest zoo purchases tens of thousands of pounds of horse…

Too big to fact check? ‘Not our job’ says AP Editor

by VICKERY ECKHOFF 89 mainstream media outlets picked up the AP's flawed Valley Meat coverage. Only one (The Christian Science Monitor) responded to public requests for correction. A series of 18 AP news stories that repeated significant factual errors for a year and a half will not be corrected, according to AP West Editor, Traci…

Racing, slaughter and the movie 50 to 1

Horse racing is an international sport once thought of as the Sport of Kings. In too many instances in this modern age it is anything but. There seems to be at least one shining example. Horse racing experts point to Hong Kong as a place where it is still done well. On the other end…

NM Stewards ban racehorse trainer for 16 years for Viagra positives

by JANE ALLIN The Paulick Report states: Quarter horse trainer John Stinebaugh has been suspended 16 years and fined $40,000 after four horses in his care tested positive for Sildenafil, the active ingredient in the human erectile dysfunction drug Viagra. The horses were competing in Rainbow Futurity and Rainbow Derby Trials at Ruidoso Downs last…

Two dozen captured wild horses find refuge at Horse Spirit Ranch

U-T San Diego reports: WRITTEN BY EDWARD SIFUENTES BONSALL — A Southern California animal rights group says it has rescued nearly two dozen wild horses captured in New Mexico and the animals are now being sheltered at a Bonsall ranch. Most of the horses arrived Saturday, after being caught by state wildlife officials weeks ago…

Efforts to block horse slaughter in the US will continue

HSUS PRESS RELEASE November 1, 2013 A federal judge in the court case regarding horse slaughter in the U.S. has reversed course from her initial ruling and cleared the way for U.S. Department of Agriculture inspections of horse slaughter plants in several states. The Humane Society of the United States will not only appeal the…