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Horse Breeding

February 23, 2021February 23, 2021 BRIEF
horses, Kentucky, regulation

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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Appeals Environment Government 

Trainers Given Fines for ‘Sored’ Horses Will Get New Hearings

February 16, 2021March 3, 2021 KAILA PHILO
animal cruelty, D.C. Circuit, horses

The highly technical decision out of the D.C. Circuit turns on the illegal appointments of the administrative law judges who

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Environment Government Health 

Wild Horses

December 11, 2020December 14, 2020 BRIEF
BLM, horses, Medical

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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Criminal International Sports 

Irish Rider Sentenced in France for ‘Disgraceful’ Abuse of Horse

November 27, 2020November 27, 2020 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
animal cruelty, France, horses, Ireland, sentencing

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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Criminal Entertainment Health Sports 

Sprawling Racehorse Doping Case Expected to Get More Unwieldy

November 17, 2020November 17, 2020 NINA PULLANO
doping, horses, Medicine

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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Science 

Indian Fossils Support New Hypothesis for Origin of Hoofed Animals

November 6, 2020November 6, 2020 CARSON McCULLOUGH
evolution, fossils, horses, India

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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Entertainment Environment Science 

Cells at San Diego Zoo Lead to Cloning of Endangered Horse

October 15, 2020October 15, 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS
endangered, horses, Medicine, Research, San Diego, zoo

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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Entertainment Government Sports 

Jockeying

October 13, 2020October 14, 2020 BRIEF
California, horses

Owners of the race horses Justify and Hoppertunity complain the California Horse Racing Board is trying to revive disqualification efforts over a substance that doesn’t call for disqualification simply to dispose of a civil suit filed by the horse that came in second place.

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Appeals Entertainment Sports 

Sixth Circuit Denies Relief for Owners of Disqualified Derby Horse

August 28, 2020August 28, 2020 KEVIN KOENINGER
due process, horses, Kentucky, Sixth Circuit

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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Appeals Entertainment Law Media 

Horse Racing

August 20, 2020August 24, 2020 BRIEF
Arizona, gambling, horses, injunction, Ninth Circuit

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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Appeals Law 

Kentucky Supreme Court Considers Historical Horse Racing Slot Machines

August 14, 2020August 14, 2020 KEVIN KOENINGER
gambling, horses, Kentucky

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.

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Environment Government National 

Animal Cruelty

July 31, 2020August 3, 2020 BRIEF
animal cruelty, horses, USDA

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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Environment Government 

Wild Horses

July 9, 2020July 10, 2020 BRIEF
horses, open meetings, Oregon

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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Appeals Environment Government 

Wild Horses

July 2, 2020July 6, 2020 BRIEF
BLM, horses, Ninth Circuit

The Ninth Circuit upheld a ruling in favor of the Bureau of Land Management in an action challenging its Antelope and Triple B complexes plan. The bureau did not violate the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, as animal advocacy group Friends of Animals had claimed. 

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Appeals Entertainment Sports 

Horse Owners Fight Kentucky Derby Disqualification at 6th Circuit

June 16, 2020June 17, 2020 KEVIN KOENINGER
due process, horses, Kentucky, Sixth 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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Employment Entertainment Sports 

Horse Meth

June 9, 2020June 10, 2020 BRIEF
doping, horses, methamphetamine

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.

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Business Entertainment Environment Government 

Chicago Puts a Halt to Horse-Drawn Carriages

April 24, 2020May 7, 2020 LISA KLEIN
animal rights, Chicago, eldSports, horses

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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Law 

Wild Horses

March 31, 2020April 1, 2020 BRIEF
animals, EPA, fertility, horses, Oregon, pharmaceuticals

A federal court in Oregon ruled in favor of an animal advocacy group, finding that the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision not to initiate a special review of its use of the drug ZonaStat-H to control the fertility of wild horses was “arbitrary and capricious.”

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Criminal Entertainment Sports 

Feds Sweep 27 in Racehorse Doping Probe

March 9, 2020 NICK RUMMELL
animals, doping, horses

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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Appeals Business Consumers 

Horse-Drawn Buggy

March 2, 2020March 3, 2020 BRIEF
automotive, crash, horses, Insurance

An injured motorcyclist was properly denied uninsured motorist insurance benefits after an accident with a horse-drawn buggy whose driver was uninsured, an appeals court in Kentucky ruled, finding that the buggy cannot be considered a motor vehicle due to the absence of a motor.

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