URBANA, Ill. - Although equine dentists cannot have their patients lie down in a reclining chair for easy access to those hard to reach molars, the field has progressed greatly in the past 20 years.

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FORT WORTH, TEXAS—Cornelious “Paul” Cleveland, 73, of Houston, Texas, is among the newest inductees into the Cowboys of Color Hall of Fame.

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InCompass Solutions Inc. today announced that it has launched the Jockey Health Information System, a database that will store jockeys’ updated medical histories and make it possible for emergency medical personnel at racetracks to instantly access that information in the event of injury.

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LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Even though the majority of the state is in the midst of a drought, hay supplies are up from last year.

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DAVIS, Calif. -- Autumn is no time for an outdoor picnic, says entomologist Lynn Kimsey, chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology. It's fly season.

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Lexington, KY – A group of cross country course designers including USEF President and licensed course designer, David O’Connor, are taking another step in their continuing commitment to Eventing safety.

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The Equestrian Land Conservation Resource (ELCR) is pleased to welcome three new members into its Equestrian Partner program: New York Horse Park, Equitrekking and Camelot Equestrian Park Foundation.

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Now in its ninth year, the next AAEP Healthy Horses Workshop will be held on Saturday, Dec. 6 in San Diego, Calif., and will offer seminars addressing health topics that are important to the horse owner.

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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.--The Equine Science Center will host its annual Equine Science Update on Tuesday, December 9, 2008 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Cook Campus Center on the G. H. Cook Campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

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Extremely accomplished horse trainer and clinician John Lyons is getting ready for the 2009 Road to the Horse, not by practicing and improving his training techniques but by preparing for the competition physically.

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WASHINGTON--The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today signed the North American Rabies Management Plan with Canada and Mexico.

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MISSISSIPPI STATE, Miss. -- A physically active Greenwood woman is working from a wheelchair today rather than on horseback a year into her battle with West Nile virus that left her with polio-like symptoms and partial paralysis.

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Debbie Miller Atkinson passed away peacefully, on September 30, 2008, at Vanderbilt Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee.

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Veterinarians, like other licensed medical providers, have increasingly voiced concern over laypersons providing care without proper experience, training, or skills.

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The American Quarter Horse Association Nominations & Credentials Committee and Executive Committee recently approved the use of a Rule Change Proposal Form by members who want to submit proposed rule changes for the AQHA Official Handbook.

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The FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) today announced the availability of a new database of approved animal drugs.

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Battles have been fought in the name of religion, politics, honor, love and economics through the ages, but for the first time ever, rhinestones will be at the center of the fray when Road to the Horse crew and clinicians square off against Extreme Mustang Makeover trainers in the The Outrageous Rickrageous “Battle For The Bling” at Road to the Horse in Franklin, TN March 13-15, 2009.

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Lexington, KY – The United States Dressage Team and the United States Equestrian Federation received an unexpected decision on September 22, 2008 when the FEI Tribunal handed down its ruling regarding the positive medication test of Mythilus, Courtney King-Dye’s Dressage horse, from the 2008 Olympic Games in Hong Kong.

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A private showing of “The First Saturday in May,” the award-winning documentary from the Hennegan Brothers that profiles the connections of six Thoroughbreds, including Barbaro, on the road to the 2006 Kentucky Derby, will be held at the historic Kentucky Theatre in Lexington on Tuesday, October 14.

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URBANA, Ill. -- Many people think of farriers as blacksmiths, or someone who molds metal shoes for a horse's foot.

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