ARCADIA, Calif. (AP) — Hall of Fame trainer Jerry Hollendorfer is banned from entering horses in the Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita, where he was barred earlier this year.

LAWTON, Iowa. — Harold Fischer will tell you that nowhere in the Bible is there any mention of retirement.

Emtech, the 3-year-old colt who had a fatal breakdown on the second day of the current Santa Anita meeting, had tested positive for a painkiller about a month before his death.

WARNER, S.D. — Max is 18 and milk wash white with a cap, tail and four socks of brown.

BILLINGS, Mont. — There are cowboys who ride and rope under the bright lights for big money, making their living eight seconds at a time.

Just two days before she started college at Ohio State this past fall, Lesa Ramsburg went with Ford. No, she didn't buy a truck.

ARCADIA, Calif. (AP) — Buoyed by the presence of two-time Kentucky Derby-winning trainer Doug O’Neill, about 50 workers and supporters of horse racing rallied outside Santa Anita’s main entrance on Oct. 5.

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — He still had a ways to go to reach the finish line. But for one day at least, he was OK with taking his time.

Ky. Colonel, a 5-year-old gelding, went into cardiac arrest after a jog on the training track at Santa Anita— becoming the 33rd horse to die at the California track since December 2018.

AMES, Iowa – No doubt about it, women are the majority owners and caretakers of horses.

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Minot, N.D. – A new event has been added to the Minot Y’s Men’s Rodeo.

WATFORD CITY, N.D. — Riding in rodeos is not just what Amberley Snyder does. It’s who she is.

FARGO — Theodore Roosevelt National Park rangers will resume a birth control program with the goal of eliminating the need for roundups to remove wild horses to keep the herd from overpopulating.

The wild horses that live on North Carolina islands are doing fine after Hurricane Dorian hit the coast, rescue groups say.

The wild horses that live on North Carolina islands are doing fine after Hurricane Dorian hit the coast, rescue groups say.

Horses are flight animals. Their first instinct is to run away from anything that could pose a threat, including crowds of boisterous LSU football fans and drunken Mardi Gras revelers.

Now in its 22nd year, the Stirling Family Memorial Ranch Rodeo will be held Sept. 14-15 at the Stanley County Fairgrounds in Fort Pierre, S.D. Every year, the rodeo coordinators give the proceeds of the events to individuals and their families fighting cancer.

HURON, S.D. – The Ninth annual South Dakota Timed Event Championship (SDTEC) sponsored in part by Panhandle Slim and Double D Western was held Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 in Huron at the South Dakota State Fair.

• Show date: August 25, 2019, Webster, S.D.

Question: This spring, we planted 2.5 acres of pasture for our horses. The grasses are now 6 inches tall and the stand density appears good. Should we mow the pasture? If so, how often? When should we start grazing?

Goldfish have been reported as a method to keep water tanks clean; however, little information exists on this approach. The objectives of this research, conducted at the University of Minnesota, were to evaluate the efficacy of goldfish on maintaining water quality in tanks and to evaluate t…

Dry lots are an essential part of a rotational grazing system. They are a centralized area for providing shelter, hay, feed and water with access to adjacent pastures. Dry lots are also used to house horses when pastures need to be rested or during the winter when pasture is no longer growin…

The Casey Tibbs Foundation is pleased to announce that the 30th Annual Tribute Dinner will be held on the evening of Nov. 2 at the Casey Tibbs South Dakota Rodeo Center in Ft. Pierre. Advance tickets are required for this event.

Tim Crowly of Granite Falls, Minn., judged the Aberdeen Area Horsemen’s Association Open Horse Show on Aug. 4 at the Akkerman Arena. The results are as follows:

To entertain herself, Tye Westbrook asks ridiculous and intricate questions, like, “If you had five dogs — three girls and two boys — what would their names be?” She demonstrates moonwalking and jazz squares while sitting in a booster seat in the back of her mother’s car.

Morgan Erickson was crowned Miss Rodeo Aberdeen and Gabrielle Rebelein was named Junior Miss Rodeo Aberdeen on Aug. 11 at the 13th Annual Miss Rodeo Aberdeen Queen Pageant held in Aberdeen.

ST. PAUL — Three different equine diseases have been detected in three separate Minnesota counties as state animal experts stress this is the time of year horses are the most prone to diseases.

SEATTLE — “You’re a bum,” someone yelled at jockey Gary Wales as he had just finished a day on Aug. 9 at Emerald Downs.

The UMN Equine Extension program will be hosting the 10th Annual Horse Field Day on Aug. 14 from 6-8 p.m. at the Leatherdale Equine Center on the St. Paul Campus. The program will focus on “Wet Weather Woes.”

Weather woes; winter injury, a cool and wet spring, flooded hay fields, and frequent rainfall have tightened already short hay supplies in the Midwest.

RED WING, Minn. — A late-night collision between a car and a horse sent a Lake City woman to the hospital early on Aug. 5.

The Minnesota Board of Animal Health announced on July 29, 2019 that a six-week-old quarter horse was euthanized in Clay County, Minnesota, on July 15, 2019. Post-mortem tests confirmed it was infected with the highly contagious disease Equine Herpesvirus Myeloencephalopathy (EHM). The Minne…

Forty-three riders, 25 volunteers, a dozen horses, 42 golds, 30 silvers, 34 bronzes, eight fourths and four fifths.

Joe Rowe of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, judged the Aberdeen Area Horsemen’s Association Open Horse Show on July 14, 2019, at the Akkerman Arena. The results are as follows:

The 22nd Annual Stirling Family Memorial Ranch Rodeo (SFMRR) will be held Sept. 14-15 at the Stanley County Fairgrounds in Fort Pierre, S.D. This is the first year this event has grown to two days.

The European versus United States Cutting Horse Challenge was held in Denver at the National Western Stock Show Complex in conjunction with the National Cutting Horse Association’s Western National Finals June 23-30. The 2018 highpoint riders from eight European countries were invited to com…

The 10-year anniversary of the Casey Tibbs South Dakota Rodeo Center will be held on Aug. 10 at 5 p.m. The event will include the unveiling of the third large bronze statue of Clint Johnson in the sculpture garden. Clint Johnson, a four-time world saddle-bronc champion, will be in attendance…

Parasites present a pesky problem for horses and their owners alike. A year-round rotation of dewormers that alternated every other month was once considered enough to keep your horses protected. However, there is an increasing trend of drug resistance among parasites, making them harder to …

PIERRE – Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), a reportable disease of livestock, has been confirmed in horses in Colorado, New Mexico and Texas.

For the past 20 years, the South Dakota State University Rodeo Team has had at least one student athlete finish in the top 12 at the College National Finals Rodeo (CNFR). At the 2019 CNFR, which was held June 9-15 in Casper, Wyoming, SDSU kept its long-standing tradition alive with yet anoth…

Show date: June 30, 2019 – Webster, S.D.

Double Bar J Cowboy Church will be hosting its first Barrel Racing Clinic featuring eleven-time world champion barrel racer Charmayne James. The Clinic will be held in Huron, S.D. at the South Dakota State Fair Grounds at the Beef Complex Sept. 12-15.

The 6th Annual Hub Area 4-H Rodeo will be held July 6 and 7 at the Brown County Fairgrounds. Over 100 4-H contestants from across South Dakota will compete in 10 rodeo events. There is no charge to come enjoy the rodeo and cheer on your favorite contestants.

When a group of students from the Billings Career Center took on a project to build a custom wheelchair-accessible, horse-drawn buggy, they quickly learned it would not go smoothly.