Horses in the Headlines Archives

When Donkeys Are Worth More Dead Than Alive

The world's donkey population will be cut in half within the next five years if the current pace of demand for "ejiao" keeps up. Derived from boiling the hides of...

Sir Mark Todd May Resume Training After Serving Four Month Suspension

Olympic Gold Medalist Sir Mark Todd was issued a four-month suspension by the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) independent Disciplinary Panel on April 14, 2022. The ruling came in response to...

Dressage Coach Who Shot Former Student Found Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity

New Jersey based Olympic Dressage coach Michael Barisone stood trial this week for the survived shooting of his former student Lauren Kanarek on August 7th, 2019. The jury found Barisone...

Horses in Ukraine: How to Help

As conflict continues to rage in Ukraine, the situation grows more dire for equestrians evacuating the war zone with their horses. The Ukrainian Equestrian Federation Charity Foundation (UEFCF) estimates upwards...

War and the Wild Horses of Chernobyl

In its efforts to invade Ukraine, Vladimir Putin's troops took control of the Chernobyl nuclear plant in late February. Troops seized the exclusion zone around it, which is now a...

Horse Transportation Safety Act Reintroduced in U.S. House by 105 Members of Congress

Horses have long been a part of the American story, since Christopher Columbus' second voyage brought Spanish horses first to the Virgin Islands, and, in 1519, they were introduced on...

New Hope Stables Still Fighting

It's been a month of heartbreak and stress for New Hope Stables. The North Carolina farm lost four horses and has been caring around the clock for more than a...

Getting Answers and Reflecting on Bigger Questions from the Tulsa Horse Trailer Incident

When I first saw the videos from Tulsa, Oklahoma showing a truck and horse trailer driving through a crowd of protestors blocking a highway and getting attacked, my reaction was...

Temporary Injunction Halts Planned Culling of Australian Wild Horses

The Australian state of Victoria has temporarily halted its plans to shoot wild horses after a cattleman filed an injunction in the Supreme Court of Victoria to stop the cull....

Home Off the Range: What the $35 Million Population Control Plan Means for America’s Wild Horses

Wild horses are an iconic feature of the American West, but now on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, their future as a symbol of freedom on the frontier is threatened. ...

Dressage Shooting Shines a Harsh Spotlight On the Already Embattled SafeSport

In a case that seems tailor-made for its own, ripped-from-the-headlines TV special, the equestrian community made mainstream news again last week for the very worst of reasons. On Wednesday, August...

Emanuel Andrade Returns to Instagram After Horses Seized by FBI

Equestrian Sport is in the mainstream media again this week! And for once, it's not a puff piece on the talented rich kids of show jumping. It's something much, much worse:...

Op Ed: Banning Chicago’s Carriage Horses Isn’t Helping Anyone

A vote on a proposed ban on carriage horses in Chicago was postponed earlier in October. The Committee on License and Consumer Protection chairwoman said she believed that there needed...

Barn Fire Claims 23 Thoroughbreds at Kentucky Training Center

Every horseman's worst nightmare became a gut-wrenching reality for Eric and Kay Reed early Sunday morning when they received a call that one of the barns at their Mercury Equine Center...

10 Lessons Every Horse Person Can Take Away from the Presidential Debate

Did you watch the debate last night? Did you learn a lot? Were you inspired to be a better American? The first 2016 Presidential Debate was filled with cheers, jeers,...

Charlotte and Valegro Are Back in NYC! So Naturally, We Made Them a Travel Guide

It's fall in New York City which can only mean two things: Pumpkin Spice lattes are back at Starbucks, and Charlotte Dujardin is back at the Rolex Central Park Horse...

UPDATED: BLM Will Not Euthanize 45,000 Wild Horses

After days of speculation regarding the fate of 45,000 wild horses and burros currently housed in the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) off-range holding pens, the Bureau has responded to...

Watch Kaley Cuoco Have the ‘You Ride Horses?!’ Convo With Jimmy Kimmel

To any one of her many equestrian fans, Kaley Cuoco is a celebrity second, and a high-jumpin' horse girl first. But like any horse girl whose day job happens to entail making...

Now’s Your Chance to Own a Piece of “War Horse” Puppet History

When Michael Morpurgo, the children's writer who first penned the book, War Horse, in 1982 heard that Nick Stafford was planning to adapt his story for the London stage, his first...

Canadian Man Saves Little Girl from a Team of Runaway Horses

Calvin Stein of Madoc was harnessing his own horses and waiting for his turn to compete at the Tweed Fair in Ontario when he noticed a commotion brewing not far...

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