The 17-year-old youth who shot dead the mum of a donkey foal within minutes of his birth has been jailed for 11 months and 15 days.
International Equestrian Federation officials may soon be reaching for their own painkillers as the headache grows over new drug regulations.
A muster aimed at removing more than 2500 horses from northern Nevada rangeland has been postponed because of legal action.
German researchers have found mycotoxins in all 62 commercial horse feeds sampled in a recent study.
Ira Hanford, the jockey who won the 1936 Kentucky Derby has died in Florida at the age of 91 after a long illness.