Colonial Downs invites horsemen across the country to discover if their Thoroughbred, bred outside of Virginia, qualifies as Virginia Certified; therefore, eligible to enter in the many ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I was intrigued when John Cianci told me about the February luncheon at the Tiverton VFW Post. The special guests were … horses!

Queen Camilla visited Smitten Farm in Virginia to highlight the U.S. horse racing industry's health and welfare efforts She met with breeders, conservationists and organizations supporting retired ...

Thousands of wild horses near Lake Tahoe are becoming increasingly hazardous to drivers in Nevada — but residents in the state have no legal means to control the population on their own, according to ...

Grace Purdum was happy when the thoroughbred mare known as Mare #1 kicked her in the leg one morning. "In our industry, that’s a good thing," said Purdum, the president of Hope for Horses, a horse ...

Richmond, Va.-based BES Studios and its client, the Virginia Equine Alliance (VEA), were awarded a prestigious Telly Award this past week in recognition of a 60-second TV commercial titled "Virginia ...

The Virginia Department of Agriculture confirms a horse in Virginia has tested positive for West Nile virus. The unvaccinated quarter horse in Orange County, north of Charlottesville, showed ...

SOMERSET, Va. (ABC7) — Animal rescues are designed to help animals that have been mistreated and have nowhere else to go. But the recent seizure of nearly 100 dying and emaciated horses from a ...

I’m not suggesting horses are reversing the decline in farmland, but they are the only positive side of that equation that I am aware of. So for all horses do for us, I welcome them visitors and ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — If you’ve seen Virginia Beach police officers on horseback, at the Oceanfront for example, they’re part of the Virginia Beach Mounted Patrol. I stopped by the Virginia Beach ...

The racing office at Laurel Park barred horses shipping in to run from Virginia yesterday, taking precaution against the spread of equine herpes virus, which last winter led to the death of four ...