The Humane Society of the United States and other animal-protection groups have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture in an attempt to halt the opening of planned horse-slaughter facilities in New Mexico, Iowa, and three other states.
A state code provision diverting 17 percent of monies from Pennsylvania’s Race Horse Development Fund has lapsed with the adoption of the state budget for the 2013-14 fiscal year.
The New York Thoroughbred Breeders (NYTB) will host its annual members meeting and cocktail party on Saturday, Aug. 10, at the Fasig-Tipton sales pavilion in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The event coincides with the Fasig-Tipton New York-bred preferred yearling sale.
Mecke, an Indiana-based stallion and multiple Grade 1 winner whose résumé includes the 1996 Arlington Million, was euthanized June 26 due to the infirmities of old age. He was 21 years old.
Chief White Fox, one of only a small handful of Thoroughbreds to be registered as “white” by The Jockey Club, broke his maiden on July 1 at Mountaineer Park in his ninth career start.
The New Vocations annual Charity Horse Show, set for July 6-7 in Delaware, Ohio, will offer $6,550 in prize money for its Thoroughbred competitors.
Multiple Grade 1 winner Smiling Tiger has been retired from racing, and will stand at Premier Equine Center in Oakdale, Calif. in 2014 for an advertised fee of $5,000.
Cockney Rebel, winner of both the English and Irish 2,000 Guineas in 2007, has relocated to Haras de Saint Arnoult in Exmes, France, where he will stand for the 2014 breeding season, Racing Post reports. The 9-year-old son of Val Royal previously stood at the National Stud in Newmarket.
In an exciting weekend of stakes action across North America, Obviously and Wise Dan stood out with performances that, if all goes well, should set them on course to face off this November for a second time in the Breeders’ Cup Mile at Santa Anita Park.
Although he has already been through an auction ring twice in his young life, it doesn't appear likely that bargain purchase Debt Ceiling will change hands again anytime soon.
