HorseChannel Newswire

Equestrian Sport

2nd Annual Junior/Young Rider National CCI1* Team Championships
2nd Annual Junior/Young Rider National CCI1* Team Championships for 14-21 year olds will be held at the Hagyard Midsouth Three-day Event and Team Challenge, October 15-19 in Lexington, Kentucky for Areas I, II, IV, V and VIII and at Galway Downs Three-day Event and Horse Trials, October 31-November 2 in Temecula, California for Areas VI, VII, IX and X, from the USEA.  Read more >>

Equine Behavior

Horse moms tend to be nicer to sons
Mothers in overall poor condition, though, invested more in their daughters, from MSNBC.  Read more >>

Equine Welfare

Jockey hurt, horse dead after racetrack accident
A two-horse spill in Monday’s fifth race at the Fort Erie Race Track has sidelined a female jockey for the balance of the Ontario thoroughbred racing season, from the Niagara Falls Review.   Read more >>

4 injured when horse-drawn carriage tips over
Christina West, 63, of Rhode Island, was in fair condition yesterday in Rhode Island Hospital, four days after the horse-drawn carriage she was riding in struck a stone wall and tipped over, from Projo.com.  Read more >>

Human Interest

Napoleon enthusiasts plan memorial for horses killed in Austerlitz
Napoleon enthusiasts in the Czech Republic announced Tuesday they want to build a memorial to horses killed in the battle of Austerlitz, in which Napoleon defeated the Austrian and Russian armies in 1805, from the Leader-Post.  Read more >>