Tying the horse that nearly won the 2019 Kentucky Derby to a massive doping ring, prosecutors unsealed four federal indictments Monday against 27 trainers, veterinarians and other figures from the racing world.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service erred when it rejected a petition by an international advocacy group to list a population of wild horses in Montana as threatened or endangered, a federal judge said Tuesday.
Read moreA third horse has been rescued from a strip mine site in Kentucky where 20 horses were found fatally shot.
Read moreRuis Racing, whose horse Bolt d’Oro finished second to eventual Triple Crown winner Justify in the 2018 Santa Anita Derby, sued the California Racing Board in superior court, claiming it covered up that Justify tested positive for an illegal substance after the Santa Anita Derby.
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A German veterinarian has lost his appeal over the death of a champion dressage horse belonging to a member of the Swarovski family.
Read moreIn the never-ending battle over wild horses, the Friends of Animals sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in federal court, fighting a 10-year plan to drug and castrate wild horses in Lassen County, California.
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In a glimpse of the future, an entire sports event has been run on horse manure. The world’s governing equestrian body on Monday praised a climate-friendly scheme by a Finnish equestrian event to generate all its electricity needs from horse manure, saying the initiative paves way to cutting reliance on fossil fuels in horse sports.
Read moreA federal court in Oregon recommended that the Environmental Protection Agency review its use of ZonaStat-H, a vaccine used as birth control for wild horses. The court found that its decision not to review the vaccine was “arbitrary and capricious.”
Read moreMore than 30 race horses have died in the last year at Santa Anita Park in Southern California, prompting outrage from activists and elected officials across the Golden State. But organized protests of the facility by animal rights activists will not take place on racetrack property, a Los Angeles judge ruled Thursday.
Read moreThe Third Circuit delivered a victory Tuesday to a New Jersey horse racing group that has sought millions in damages from the National Football League and other sports leagues in a long-running legal saga over sports gambling.
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A new report says Justify won the 2018 Triple Crown after a failed postrace drug test at a California track that could have kept the horse out of the Kentucky Derby.
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Prized horses are blistered and maimed to obtain a show-winning gait, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture illegally withdrew a federal rule that would prevent it, the Humane Society said this week in a federal lawsuit.
Read moreMonarch Content Management claims in a federal complaint that Arizona House Bill 2547, set to take effect Aug. 27, interferes with its right to broadcast out-of-state horse races to Arizona.
Read moreShowing Animals Respect and Kindness claims Pro Rodeo Productions of Poway and the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association illegally and cruelly shock-tame horses in the chutes to give them the appearance of “bucking broncos,” in San Diego Superior Court.
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The National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board and the Bureau of Land Management met Wednesday to discuss some of the challenges currently facing public land management, most notably the issue of horse and burro overpopulation.
Read moreOver a year after the Supreme Court struck down a federal law that barred sports gambling in most states, a New Jersey horse racing group told the Third Circuit on Tuesday that it is entitled to damages to the tune of $150 million.
Read moreCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Wednesday giving state horse racing officials the authority to suspend racing events to protect the safety of horses or jockeys.
Read moreState and national racing officials told California lawmakers Wednesday that a recent spate of horse deaths at a Los Angeles area track is an “anomaly” and restated their position that they maintain the “gold standard” in health and racing practices.
Read moreThe owners of Maximum Security, the horse controversially disqualified from this year’s Kentucky Derby, brought a federal lawsuit against the state’s Horse Racing Commission seeking to restore the horse’s victory.
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