Popular Breeds Of Horse News for 01/21/2010



Horse owners on alert after outbreak of swamp fever (Daily Mail)
More than a million British horse owners were on alert last night after two horses tested positive for the deadly disease swamp fever...

Horse owners advised not to panic over threat of swamp fever or EIA outbreak (Horse and Hound)
Officials hope the two cases of swamp fever or EIA discovered in Romanian horses imported to Wiltshire will have been contained thanks to the harsh winter weather..

Funding problem set to dominate for years to come (Irish Examiner)
Former Minister for Agriculture Ivan Yates caused many a head to nod in agreement when, during a recent address to the annual lunch of the Dublin Greyhound Track Bookmakers, he commented that the first priority for Greyhound and Horse Racing folk should be to have the respective industries returned under the umbrella of the Department of Agriculture...

Speed Gene Makes Picking Racehorses a Safer Bet, Scientists Say (BusinessWeek)
A speed gene in horses is enabling thoroughbred owners to sort would-be sprinters from plodders from just a teaspoonful of the gallopers blood...

Irish horse racing industry shows decline (RTÉ News)
2009 saw significant contraction across the key measures in the Irish horse racing industry...

Horse world's big spenders not immune to economic crunch (CNN)
If thoroughbred race horses are the oil of Kentucky, then Lexington is OPEC and the Keeneland Auction is its commodity exchange...

This stud horse is helping rebuild Haiti (Toronto Star)
A champion race horse standing at stud near Guelph is doing its part to help victims of the earthquake in Haiti...

Trying times for horse nonprofit (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
The recession is hitting the equine community hard. Horse North Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to rehabilitating and placing unwanted horses as well as education and preventative care, has been swamped...

Visiting elk country (Los Angeles Times)
Roosevelt elk, the largest of the North American elk, inhabit the Pacific coastal rain forests and mountains. They're kin to deer but larger, graze on grasses rather than legumes and leaves, and communicate more distinctively than deer...

Riske Creek quarter horse breeder nets success (Williams Lake Tribune)
Riske Creek resident and horse breeder Len McClure is coming off his best season yet, with his horse Casino High winning four awards at the Alberta Quarter Horse Racing Association year-end banquet...



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