equine art

Although I haven’t yet really dug in to the subject, I am very interested in contemporary equine art.  My taste is more towards the modern, post-modern, and abstract, but I’m open-minded.  I had the thought that maybe I’d even like to start a gallery here, so if you all have a favorite artist you’d like [...]

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wow, they’re on it!

I love TheHorse.com, if only because it gives me such good blogging fodder:

California Adopts Steroid Testing Levels
by: Debbie Arrington February 29 2008, Article # 11422
The California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) took a major step towards banning supplemental anabolic steroids with the adoption of testing levels [...]

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on not learning the first time around

It pains me to write about this, but write about it I must:

Despite 5,000 Lawsuits, Wyeth Hopes For Hormone Replacement Therapy Comeback
By Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. Posted February 26, 2008.
Selling a product that causes cancer isn’t easy, but with help from a U.S. endocrinologist group, Wyeth is again obscuring the truth [...]

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book review: In Service to the Horse

In Service to the Horse: Chronicles of a Labor of Love
by Susan Nusser
Little, Brown and Company, 2004
Nusser is an excellent writer, with a great eye for details and the ability to create suspense out of an eventing season. The secondary stories of the showjumping and breeding grooms, while interesting, never take off, and it’s [...]

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the power of positive

I subscribe to an email newsletter from The Horse that pops up in my inbox with almost annoying frequency. However, there’s always at least one or two articles of interest to me, on a good mix of topics ranging from health care to news to training. This week we have the ongoing Trexler [...]

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