Getting on a horse in Iceland is not like being initiated into an exclusive equine cult.
Twenty years ago marked its bleakest year, with three equine fatalities and two riders seriously injured.
Unsurprisingly, many of the organizations focus on equine welfare, particularly Thoroughbred aftercare: rescue, retirement, re-training, re-homing.
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Some people consider it a performance enhancer, others an essential element of equine care.
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The public has seldom had such access to an equine superstar of her stature.
Treatment modalities include expressive art and equine assisted therapies as well as 12-step meetings.
Peterson cautions, though, that track surfaces are not one of the primary causes of equine injury.
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But one person who's not surprised is Larry Bramlage, an equine orthopedic surgeon from Lexington, Kentucky.
Ministers requested police assistance after equine DNA was found at Rangeland Foods, in County Monaghan.
To suggest the National Equine Database was required to do that is simply erroneous.
All of the hunt's rides are currently suspended following an outbreak of equine herpes.
And that includes zebras -- the horse's exotic equine cousin, which for centuries has roamed the African plains unsaddled.
Bramlage is the on-call supervisor who provides equine injury updates at the Derby and other major races.
The Burger Manufacturing Company (BMC) said the traces of equine DNA found were at 0.02% and 0.046%.
And she called on the government to reverse a "reckless" decision to end the National Equine Database.
Animal studies showed that squalamine controlled infections of yellow fever, Eastern equine encephalitis virus, and murine cytomegalovirus.
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The Scottish government plans to remove an exemption in current laws allowing the practice on equine animals.
Since the downturn, owners have cut back on their equine holdings, so the wait list has disappeared.
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Wayne McIlwraith to research the role that track surfaces, particularly dirt and synthetic ones, play in equine injury.
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He said only one test showed up equine DNA, but at just 0.1%, compared with a threshhold of 1%.
But for the fashionistas of the equine world, it may be worth it.
Paul Hancock of the facility said of eight food samples tested so far "all are negative for equine DNA".
Our first winter, she'd foundered (foundering is an equine wasting disease of the hoof), and developed sores and abscesses.
No entry requirements are necessary for the part-time taster courses covering subjects such as philosophy, equine nutrition and astrobiology.
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She's more about country living and was in her element watching an equine display by the Republican Guard in Paris.
Familiarity is not the only factor, but it is significant in keeping 3-year-old colts the excitable teenagers of the equine world relaxed.
Legitimate Grade 1, world-class equine athletes will be 20, 30, even 67-1 as was the case with Court Vision last year.
This has been done so many times by so many people that I am ashamed to manfully rap this dead equine.
"It's not about the horse, it's all about you, " notes Wyatt Webb, Miraval's "Equine Services Manager" and a psychotherapist for two-footed beasts.
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