Posted by on Feb 3, 2016 in Association News | 1 comment
Our handsome Hugo still needs to find a new home! He does do smiling, honestly, he was just sleeping in the sun!
He will be 21 in May, but is in great shape, and can be ridden. He is about 14hh.
His previous posts are below if you want to follow his progress with...
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Posted by on Jan 31, 2016 in Association News | 0 comments
Please watch this video below.
This is the end of the 120 km Endurance ‘competition’ at Al Wathba in Dubai. FIVE riders were disqualified for beating horses. One rider/crew wasn’t reported in time for beating his horse, so wasn’t disqualified. There is no further punishment. This is difficult viewing, but it must be seen. One horse is reported as having sustained...
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Posted by on Jan 24, 2016 in Association News | 0 comments
As has been documented elsewhere, despite the FEI short term suspension of the UAE in order for them to clean up their act, nothing has radically changed. At least 5 deaths so far this year. No information forthcoming on what happened to horses attributed the generic FTC, or horses that didn’t reach vet gates and are down as RET, or more remarkably horses that have sustained a...
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Posted by on Dec 11, 2015 in Association News | 0 comments
Due to changes in the guardians’ circumstances, Hugo needs a new family. He will be 21 next May, but is in great shape, and can be ridden.
These photos were taken earlier this year
These links are a little bit of his story
Hugo...
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Posted by on Sep 20, 2015 in Association News | 0 comments
Report on fatal horse injury at an Endurance GB race ride event 1 August 2015
(by Angela Corner)
There has been much scandal surrounding the sport of endurance riding in the last few years, multiple cases of horse doping, cheating, rule breaking and horse fatalities culminating in the FEI taking the unprecedented step of suspending an entire Nation (the UAE) from international competition. This...
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Posted by on Sep 11, 2015 in Association News | 0 comments
France has reported two outbreaks of WNV in horses in the Bouches du Rhone region (OIE, 2015; see map). In one case, a three year old Lusitano horse exhibited neurological signs on August the 11th and was humanely destroyed on the 19th August. Of the sixty horses remaining at the premises, two more are showing suspect clinical signs...
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