Bettors Sue Medina Spirit Trainer Over Kentucky Derby Win Fouled by Doping Scandal
Horse race bettors claim they lost thousands of dollars when a colt who later tested positive for a steroid was crowned winner of the Kentucky Derby.
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A class of jockey’s valets sued to stop Churchill Downs from preventing them from picketing on the sidewalks around the horse-racing track, claiming it got permits for all surrounding public sidewalks so the striking valets can’t picket.
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Horse Breeding
Three Kentucky horse breeders brought a federal lawsuit against the New York-based Jockey Club, the sole registry for thoroughbred horses in North America, to challenge a new rule limiting the number of times a thoroughbred stallion can mate each year.
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Trainers Given Fines for ‘Sored’ Horses Will Get New Hearings
The highly technical decision out of the D.C. Circuit turns on the illegal appointments of the administrative law judges who handed down the fines.
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The wild horse conservation group Return to Freedom sued the Bureau of Land Management to stop the agency from carrying out plans to spay wild mares using an invasive and inhumane surgical procedure.
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Irish Rider Sentenced in France for ‘Disgraceful’ Abuse of Horse
An Irish show jumping rider has been sentenced for cruelty towards his horse that died after he forced the exhausted animal to gallop on a track with excessive use of a whip, court officials and lawyers said Friday.
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Sprawling Racehorse Doping Case Expected to Get More Unwieldy
Nearly two weeks after bringing a superseding indictment in an already massive doping prosecution of racehorse trainers and veterinarians, federal prosecutors told a judge Tuesday more charges and more defendants could be in store.
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Indian Fossils Support New Hypothesis for Origin of Hoofed Animals
After over a decade of research and hundreds of new fossils recovered from the hot mines of India, researchers say they have uncovered new details regarding the evolutionary history of Earth’s most famous hoofed animals.
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Cells at San Diego Zoo Lead to Cloning of Endangered Horse
Little Kurt looks like any other baby horse as he frolics playfully in his pen. He isn’t afraid to kick or head-butt an intruder who gets in his way and, when he’s hungry, dashes over to his mother for milk.
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Sixth Circuit Denies Relief for Owners of Disqualified Derby Horse
The owners of Maximum Security, the horse that crossed the finish line first in the 2019 Kentucky Derby but was later disqualified, lost in the Sixth Circuit on Friday when the court held the disqualification was not reviewable under state law.
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The Ninth Circuit upheld the denial of a preliminary junction in a case challenging an Arizona statute that requires any simulcast of live horse racing that originates outside the state to be offered to all commercial live-racing permittees and “additional wagering facility” in the state.
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Kentucky Supreme Court Considers Historical Horse Racing Slot Machines
An educational nonprofit organization argued before the Kentucky Supreme Court on Friday that “historical horse racing” slot machines are illegal under state law because they do not qualify as pari-mutuel betting.
Read moreAnimal Cruelty
A federal judge in Washington dismissed the Humane Society’s lawsuit against the Department of Agriculture for stripping federal protections against horse soring, a practice that involves the intentional infliction of pain to a horse’s legs or hooves to achieve a high-stepping gait prized in the show ring.
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The Central Oregon Wild Horse Coalition sued the Crook County Commission, claiming it held a meeting without adequate notice where they took action “which could result in the ultimate extinction of the Ochoco wild horse herd,” in Deschutes County Court.
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Horse Owners Fight Kentucky Derby Disqualification at 6th Circuit
The owners of Maximum Security, the horse that crossed the finish line first but was later disqualified from the 2019 Kentucky Derby, argued before a Sixth Circuit panel Tuesday to revive their due process case against the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission.
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A horse trainer sued Canterbury Park racing track in Scott County Court, Minn., claiming two of its employees, not him, were responsible for two horses he trained testing positive for methamphetamine, resulting in disciplinary action against him.
Read moreChicago Puts a Halt to Horse-Drawn Carriages
Horse-drawn carriages will soon be a thing of the past in Chicago, the city council voting Friday to stop issuing licenses for the tourist attraction.
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