BY JOHN SIMERMAN as published on NOLA.com There’s no shortage of thoroughbreds boxed into the trailers that rattle into the dirt parking lot at Dominique’s Livestock Market in Opelousas on Tuesdays, to be sold to the highest bidder… And there’s plenty of unwanted attention around the stockyard’s auction […]
News provided by Canadian Horse Defence Coalition A Nanos Poll was taken across Canada in June 2019 by Ottawa, ON lobbying firm, The Parliamentary Group. Findings show that over two-thirds of Canadians say they are uncomfortable or somewhat uncomfortable with the export of horse meat from Canada for […]
Source: KTLA.com Two horses were killed in a freak collision at Del Mar during training on the second day of its season The accident occurred Thursday morning when Charge A Bunch, trained by Carla Gaines, threw rider Geovanni Franco, turned sharply and collided with Carson Valley, who was […]
by Anis Heydari · CBC News Deaths have prompted renewed calls to end chuckwagon races, rodeo CALGARY, CA –Three more horses had to be euthanized after going down during the final night of the chuckwagon races at the Calgary Stampede, bringing the total number of horses that died […]
by: Canadian Horse Defence Coalition “The law in regard to the live export of horses for slaughter is clear…” Last fall, the not-for-profit animal protection group, the Canadian Horse Defence Coalition (CHDC), filed for judicial review in the Federal Court. The lawsuit challenges violations of two sections of […]
Opinion by Jennifer Caudill as published on the Reno Gazette Journal Thousands of horses are chased violently by helicopters into captivity in already overcrowded corrals to await a fate that, even in 2019, could end in slaughter. .. Last August in Wyoming’s Red Desert, across approximately 700,000 acres […]
Source: Equine Advocates This is an excerpt from a press release from Senator Bob Menendez about the introduction of the Safeguard American Food Exports (SAFE) Act that was introduced in the U.S. Senate yesterday: “Menendez, Graham, Whitehouse, Collins Drop Bipartisan Bill to Criminalize #HorseSlaughter for the Purpose of […]
By Chuck Culpepper and Jacob Bogage “Foremost among the core values of the Breeders’ Cup are the safety and integrity of the competition, and we hold ourselves, our host sites and our competitors, to the highest standards of both,” … The 36th Breeders’ Cup, set for Nov. 1-2 at Santa […]
by Press Release Equine Advocates will throw its biggest party and fundraiser of the year on Thursday, August 1, at the Canfield Casino in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Kentucky is this year’s theme as Staci Hancock and Carol and Tracy Farmer will be Equine Advocates 2019 award recipients. Terry […]
by Cody Benjamin as published on CBS Sports Protesters had long campaigned for an end to the horse racing season at the facilities Less than a month after owners of Santa Anita Park, a Thoroughbred race track in Arcadia, California, kept the facility open despite more than two […]
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