Day: May 27, 2009

RESEARCHERS EXAMINE EFFECTS OF RIDER STABILITY

Austrian researchers have reported that the stability of a rider’s seat affects the forces acting on a horse’s back. Using an electronic pressure mat placed under a dressage saddle, scientists with the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna’s Movement Science Group measured the forces created when an experienced rider rode 10 different sound horses at the sitting trot, rising trot, and in the two-point (jumping) position. The rider held each position for 20 seconds. Continue reading…

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Nutro Products Announces Voluntary Recall of Limited Range of Dry Cat Food Products

May 21, 2009 Nutro Products announced a voluntary recall of select varieties of NUTRO® NATURAL CHOICE® COMPLETE CARE® Dry Cat Foods and NUTRO® MAX® Cat Dry Foods with “Best If Used By Dates” between May 12, 2010 and August 22, 2010. The cat food is being voluntarily recalled in the United States and ten additional countries. This recall is due to incorrect levels of zinc and potassium in our finished product resulting from a production error by a US-based premix supplier. Consumers who have purchased affected product should immediately discontinue feeding the product to their cats, and

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GERMANY TO HOST FEI EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS REINING

The American Quarter Horse Journal, May 26, 2009 – For the first time, Germany will host the 2009 FEI European Championships Reining. The event, October 7-11 at the Kreuth (Oberpfalz) facility near Nuremberg, Germany, will include another milestone as it will be the first European Championships for junior and youth riders. “NRHA Germany is honored and proud to be able to organize this renowned event,” said Kay Wienrich, NRHA Germany president and coach of the German team, which won the gold at the 2007 European Championship. “And a very special thing is the first EC for young

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