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KEEP horses Working for Kentucky
Kentucky - The American Saddlebred Horse Association has joined forces with the Kentucky Equine Education Project (KEEP) and have added Misdee Wrigley as a board member to the organization. Also members Hoppy Bennett from Shelby County and Joan Hamilton from Washington County have been selected as team leaders in their respective counties.
13,000 Horses Placed Through Stewardship Program
Kentucky - For more than 60 years, the connection between horses and women's health has led to the development and manufacture of a medication for women seeking relief from their menopausal symptoms. Throughout the years, equine ranchers in Canada and North Dakota have collected pregnant mares' urine (PMU) from which estrogens are extracted to manufacture this important therapy for millions of postmenopausal women.
Horses Once Trained for War Now Prance in Spectacular Steps for Island Public
Massachusetts - With a bent knee swagger earned from decades of riding horses, Col. Ottomar Herrmann stepped to the center of an outdoor ring at the Agricultural Hall in West Tisbury and mesmerized the crowd. With a thick Austrian accent, Colonel Herrmann welcomed the hundreds of Islanders who flocked to the grounds of the agricultural society to witness the rare breed of Lipizzan stallions perform dressage.
Prisoners learn new skills with retired horses
South Carolina - Hank Currence will spend the next 10 years in prison, but a new program at Wateree River Correctional Institution in Rembert gives him hope for a better life when he gets out.
Lynn farmers upset over $500 horse permit
Pennsylvania - Lynn Township's announcement in the summer that it plans to enforce a 13-year-old ordinance requiring horse farmers to apply for special exception permits has prodded only one farmer to comply, township officials s"