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One horse dead, One hurt in ‘horrible’ mistake
One of two quarter horses dragged behind a trailer near Homedale, Idaho, last week will likely be OK, Owyhee County Sheriff Gary Aman said Friday, from the Idaho Statesman. Read more >>

Horse Killed In Crash
One horse is dead and two others are hurt after the semitrailer they were in flipped on its side in Eau Claire County in Wisconsin Saturday night, from Yahoo. Read more >>

Galloping incentives
A horse breeders’ fund begun in Kentucky last year was primarily aimed at the thoroughbred industry but has drawn a number of quarter-horse operations, from the Lexington Herald-Leader. Read more >>

RLPB continues to fight horse flu
 While Equine Influenza is easing, Rural Lands Protection Boards (RLPB) are busier than ever in their efforts to help control and eradicate the disease, from the Mudgee Guardian. Read more >>

Secrets of the horse’s heart
One day in the 1980s, Dr. Carol Cottrill, a Lexington, Ky., physician renowned for taking care of newborn babies with congenital heart problems, was asked to make a house call and consult on a young female patient battling potentially fatal respiratory difficulties. The patient was a horse, from the Lexington Herald-Leader. Read more >>

Wellington, Fla., horse industry survives its worst year
Wellington’s equestrian community putting hard times behind it, from the Sun-Sentinel. Read more >>

FEI World Cup™ Dressage Stockholm November 29 – December 2
Today Swedish star rider Jan Brink managed to win his second car within a week time. At the biggest yearly event of the Globe Arena at the Stockholm International Horse Show Jan Brink was the best in the second leg of the Western European League of the FEI World Cup™ Dressage, from the FEI. Read more >>

FEI World Cup™ Driving: Stockholm (Swe) 1-2 December 2007
Australia’s Boyd Exell has won the third leg of the FEI World Cup™ Driving competition in Stockholm, Sweden. Exell put down a superb performance, which was closely followed by over 10.500 enthusiastic spectators in the Globen Arena, from the FEI. Read more >>

Sinterklaas Arrives on Horse in Dutch Embassy in Sofia
The Dutch community in Bulgaria welcomed Saturday Sinterklaas who arrived in the embassy of the Netherlands in Sofia on a white horse, to give presents to the children who were good during the year, from Novinite.com. Read more >>

Cowboy featured in the 2008 Men-of-Mortuaries calendar
“Mr. March” is a hunk to die for, from cnews. Read more >>