Day: December 10, 2008

AQHA’s Most Valuable Horse Award Winners Named at 2008 FedEx Open AQHA World Championship Show

The American Quarter Horse Journal, December 9, 2008 – At this year’s American Quarter Horse Association World Championship Show in Oklahoma City, horses in six open categories rewarded their owners with a $5,000 bonus after being named Most Valuable Horse. The inaugural MVH Awards recognized the highest point-earning horses in six open divisions: Western (western pleasure, western riding and trail classes); Roping (heading, heeling and tie-down); English (hunter under saddle, hunter hack, working hunter, pleasure driving and jumping); Pattern/Cow (cutting, reining and working cow horse); Speed (barrel racing and pole bending) and Timed (ranch sorting and team

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KENTUCKY COLT WITH TYPE-1 DIABETES MIGHT BE FIRST

A colt born with type-1 diabetes might be the first documented equine case of the illness, according to his veterinarian, Nathan Slovis, DVM, Dipl. ACVIM, of Hagyard Equine Medical Institute in Lexington, Ky. The Kentucky Mountain Saddle Horse, aptly named Justin Credible (his owners say the name was picked out before he was born), was born on Oct. 19. Continue reading…

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