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Eventing Safety Summit ReportAs a response to an uncharacteristically tragic Eventing season the USEF and USEA held the first ever Eventing Safety Summit in Lexington, Kentucky, on June 7 and 8, 2008, from the USEA. Read more >>
Racing News
Trainer: Jockey ‘all I can come up with’ to explain Big Brown lossTrainer Rick Dutrow Jr. still blames Kent Desormeaux for Big Brown’s stunning last-place finish in the Belmont Stakes, but he wouldn’t object to the jockey riding the horse in his next race, from CBS Sports. Read more >>
Unanswered questions abound after Big Brown’s big lossOne of the most tumultuous and controversial Triple Crown seasons in history is finished, from Sports Illustrated. Read more >>
Christie’s to Auction Horse Racing BooksAn important group of horse racing books from the library of Sir Roderick William Cameron, founding member of the American Jockey Club at Jerome Park in 1866 and owner of Clifton Berley Stud in New York, will be auctioned at Christie’s in New York June 12, from BloodHorse. Read more >>
Equine Welfare
Animal Welfare Group Battles Online Censorship of Rodeo VideosBogus copyright claims used to block YouTube critique of animal mistreatment, from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Read more >>
No Unwanted Horses in Wellington!Equestrian Community in South Florida Rallies Around Pure Thoughts Horse Rescue as a united team, from Phelps Media Group. Read more >>
Horse shot twice in head, DASO looking for owner (2:14 p.m.)Doña Ana County Sheriff’s investigators are looking for the owner of a horse that wandered into a Radium Springs, N.M., area yard Monday morning with two gunshot wounds to the head, from the Las Cruces Sun-News. Read more >>
Kentucky man’s horseback tour ends earlyA cross country tour on horseback to draw attention to local police and fire fighters has come to a premature end, from WBIR. Read more >>
Molly The Miracle Horse Survives Hurricane and Dog AttackYou may have watched Big Brown try for the Triple Crown this weekend, from WOAI. Read more >>
Around the World
Two Months to Go to the 2008 Olympic Games: A Little about Hong KongIt may be difficult to believe, but in just over eight weeks’ time the equestrian events of the 2008 Olympic Games will be getting under way in Hong Kong after a whirlwind of frantic preparations, from the USEF. Read more >>
Govt to cover horse flu costThe federal government in Australia will cover the $100 million cost of eradicating last year’s equine flu outbreak, from Adelaide Now. Read more >>
EU tightens reins for horse trade Horses, donkeys and mules in the EU will have to have passports and be electronically tagged, the European Commission has decided, from the BBC. Read more >>
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