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Equestrian Sport

Twelve US Horse/Rider Combinations Head to the 2009 Rolex FEI World Cup Final
The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) will be represented by the following Horse/Rider combinations at the 2009 Rolex FEI World Cup Final to be held April 22-26, 2009 in Las Vegas, NV. From USEF. Read more >>

Equine Welfare

Ill. House rejects permitting horse slaughter
The Illinois House has rejected a push to overturn the state’s ban on slaughtering horses for meat. From Chicago Tribune. Read more >>

Horse Health

Ohio works with federal partners to trace contagious equine disease
The Ohio Department of Agriculture is closely working with its partners at the U.S. Department of Agriculture to trace a contagious equine disease. From The Press News. Read more >>

In Other News

Radcliff artists paint Gallopalooza horses
A fiberglass horse, painted to represent Kentucky’s modern civil war, rode up to Louisville on Monday in the bed of a pickup. From The News Enterprise. Read more >>

Clip-clopping to the rescue
A rock sailed through the air and cracked Sgt. Roger Lefebvre in the face at a police anti-brutality march last month. His Plexiglass visor bore the brunt of the shock. What upset him more was that his partner, on whom he was sitting, also received a rock in the face. From Montreal Gazette. Read more >>

You Can Win a Morgan Horse!
Have you always dreamed of owning your own Morgan horse? You can, thanks to the American Morgan Horse Association, Team Morgan, and Copper Beech LLC! From AMHA. Read more >>

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