Nearly every week the Standardbred Retirement Foundation has revealed that nearly every week, it has found finds trotters and pacers tagged for slaughter who were either homed by past owners or trainers with good intentions, or were given to an organization for this...

Want to get out on your horse and mingle (safely) with others, but don't feel like going to a show? How about trying the Alexandria Equestrian Association's Pleasure Pace July 11 (july 12 raindate). It's being held at Vetter Farm on Spring Mills Road in Holland...

Equestrian impresario Mark Bellissimo married eventer and Horse Scout CEO Lucienne Elms earlier this month in a private North Carolina ceremony “with just a handful of witnesses, together with the couple’s two dogs,” according to the Horse Scout website. “I have...

The Alexandria Pleasure Pace in Hunterdon County is set for July 11 with a rain date of July 12. It's being staged in lieu of the annual trail pace traditionally held in late September. Thiks pace will be at a new location with a requirement for pre-registration...

It isn't officially summer yet, but the questions have been coming for weeks about what will happen to the three shows on the North American Indoor Circuit this October and November. The organizers of the Pennsylvania National, the Washington International and the...

Three Vermont Summer Festival shows that could not be held in their namesake state due to Covid restrictions are moving to HITS-on-the-Hudson, where they will be combined in a six-week series with three HITS Saugerties (NY) Summer Series shows. The joint effort will...

The pandemic has claimed the September 5-star Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials, which is cancelled for the first time since it was founded in 1961. A statement from the event explained, "our absolute priority is the health and safety of our community, including...

Due to the pandemic (where have you heard that before?) the National Horse Show will implement a 25 percent reduction in the number of points required to qualify for November's ASPCA Maclay Finals in Lexington, Ky. National officials will monitor Maclay riders'...

The popular series of wine and equine from Rutgers Cooperative Extension, Natural Resource Conservation Service and North Jersey Resource Conseration & Development has gone virtual (like almost everything else...). So you have to supply your own wine. Each webinar...