By LANCE BENZEL as published on The Gazette A Peyton man who let a dozen horses starve — two of them until they died in knee-deep manure — avoided jail Tuesday. Prosecutors instead brokered a plea deal allowing Brian Holloway, 53, to serve two years on supervised probation. […]
By: Maricar Cinco of the Philippine Daily Inquirer After surviving the eruption of Taal Volcano, horses rescued from the Volcano Island may end up in slaughterhouses, as butchers dangle thousands of pesos before their disaster-stricken owners to get their hands on the animals. Jay Tolentino, a volunteer veterinarians […]
By Neil Vigdor as published on the New York Times It was a grim trifecta and a familiar result for Santa Anita Park: Three horses died in three days this past weekend at California’s best known and most scrutinized racetrack. All three horses were euthanized, two after breaking […]
Source: Los Angeles CBS Another racehorse has died after breaking an ankle at Santa Anita Park, just one day after a 5-year-old gelding was euthanized at the Arcadia, CA track. Saturday’s death of Uncontainable is at least the 41st horse death at Santa Anita since December 2018. The […]
by Kim Powell as published on AZFamily.com An Arizona lawmaker met with the U.S. Forest Service and sent them a letter requesting an extensive investigation and transparency with the public regarding the investigation into the shooting deaths of wild horses in Heber. Last week, 15 horses were found […]
Source: Multiple A report on the death of Mongolian Groom in the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Santa Anita says veterinarians missed opportunities to remove the gelding from the $6 million race because of time constraints or deficiencies in the process used to evaluate horses. In the 20-page report […]
So far this year, 15 of the iconic wild horses associated with the American West have been found dead in Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest Authorities know from necropsies what killed four of a dozen wild horses that were recently found dead in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests. The iconic symbols […]
NewsPressNow.com Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest officials say eight horses have been found fatally shot in the Heber-Overgaard area. They say the horses were found Friday with gunshot wounds by Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests Law Enforcement investigators on the Black Mesa Ranger District along State Route 260 between Payson and Show […]
Source: Heber Wild Horses Freedom Preservation Alliance “Earlier Saturday we were told more horses may have been found shot” Forest Service has not given us any confirmation or details but said the investigation is ongoing. Until we get confirmation we will not post or share posts that are […]
By Josh Cascio as published on Fox13News.com A Zephyrhills, FL woman says three intruders tried to slaughter her horses for their meat over the weekend. Brena Kramer showed FOX 13 News a few of the injuries sustained by her horses, including cuts near their eyes and rope burns near […]
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