Photo by Lucy Reyna, Horseback Magazine NTRA, (RMTC) – At its October 6 meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona, the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium board of directors heard important updates from the race day medication, drug testing initiative (DTI) and research committees. Items presented for discussion included penalty guidelines, race day medication administration, security and surveillance,...
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SYLVESTER, TEXAS (RTTH) – Australian and 2012 Road to the Horse clinician Dan James first caught the eye of Road to the Horse producer Tootie Bland when he first took to the arena at the 2011 Project Cowboy, co-produced by the dynamic blonde and Extreme Mustang Makeover creator Patti Colbert. “I kept my eye on...
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By Steven Long HOUSTON, (Horseback) – Three years ago when former Texas Parks and Wildlife parks director Walt Dabney issued a moratorium stopping shooting of wild burros in the vast Big Bend Ranch State Park animal advocates quieted down. The shootings were halted after a flurry of bad press in the local Big Bend Sentinel...
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PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL RICK PERRY UNDER FIRE FOR WILD BURRO SLAUGHTER WASHINGTON, DC (WBPL) – More than 75,000 people across the nation have joined an increasingly popular campaign on Change.org calling on Texas governor and Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry to stop the extermination of wild burros on state land. News of the online petition campaign’s rapidly...
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U.S. Equestrian Delegation Heads to the 2011 Pan American Games – By the Numbers LEXINGTON, (USEF) – The United States Equestrian Federation’s (USEF) delegation packs up and begins to head South of the Border next week – get ready Guadalajara. Dressage lands first on October 11. Eventing follows on the 15th and Jumping comes in...
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GLADSTONE, NJ (USEF) – Fourteen-year-old Lillie Keenan, of New York, NY, was a front runner today in the first two rounds of competition for the 2011 Platinum Performance/USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Finals-East. Held at the USET Foundation Headquarters in Gladstone, NJ, the Talent Search Finals celebrate a momentous 30th anniversary this year. With...
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Federal Judge Orders BLM to “Answer” Wild Horse Inhumane Charges, Allegations documented in striking video HOUSTON, (WHFF) – On October 6th, 2011 the Honorable Judge Howard McKibben ordered that the Motion for Injunctive Relief in the matter Laura Leigh v. Ken Salazar addressing “Humane Treatment” be answered. The matter addresses alleged inhumane conduct at...
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