Equestrian Sport
Honour for trakehner stallion Windfall The eventing stallion Windfall has won the American Trakehner Association’s (ATA) Trakehner Forderverein Award for 2008. From Horsetalk.co.nz. Read more >>
Kentucky Governor Beshear Announces Aid to Projects for Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games 2010 Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear announced plans to earmark unused funds for state park projects to ready the Kentucky Horse Park for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games 2010. From USEF. Read more >>
In Other News
Composting helping Kentucky farms go green Some Kentucky horse and cattle farms looking to cut costs have found the answer on the bottom of their shoes. Literally. From Kentucky.com. Read more >>
Deputy Involved in Fatal Shooting A confrontation over a horse turned deadly when an off-duty northern Kentucky sheriff’s deputy shot a woman wielding a weapon and threatening him, authorities said Tuesday. From MSNBC.com. Read more >>
Rose Parade is leaner, meaner Equestrian units, which are thought to slow the parade down somewhat, have been cut fairly drastically in the last couple of years, though the 2009 numbers are unchanged from 2008. From Contra Costa Times. Read more >>
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