by HorseMinute.com | Jul 11, 2025 | Horse Breeding
The United Nations has officially declared 11 July as World Horse Day to honor the enduring partnership between horses and humans, recognizing their significant contributions to human progress throughout history. From ancient times to modern uses in agriculture,...
by HorseMinute.com | Jul 11, 2025 | Horse Breeding
Gordon L. Woods was a pioneering American equine reproduction specialist best known for leading the research that produced the first cloned equine, a mule named Idaho Gem, born in 2003. His work involved advanced nuclear transfer techniques, where a nucleus from a...
by HorseMinute.com | Jul 10, 2025 | Horse Breeding
This article highlights the promising juvenile colt Wodeton, a son of Coolmore sire Wootton Bassett, who finished a strong second in the 2024 Golden Slipper. Wodeton emerged from a highly anticipated first Australian crop of Wootton Bassett, a stallion whose progeny...
by HorseMinute.com | Jul 10, 2025 | Horse Breeding
Working Equitation (WE) is a dynamic equestrian sport that originated in Europe in the mid-1990s to preserve traditional horse-working skills from countries like Spain and Portugal. It combines dressage, obstacle navigation, and speed trials, with an optional cattle...
by HorseMinute.com | Jul 10, 2025 | Horse Breeding
A major gastro festival dedicated to kumys, the traditional Kazakh national drink, will be held at the “Qazanat” hippodrome in Astana on July 19–20. The event will feature around 50 kumys producers and horse breeders from across Kazakhstan, attracting an expected...
by HorseMinute.com | Jul 10, 2025 | Horse Breeding
An outbreak of New World screwworms, parasitic larvae that feed on the living flesh of warm-blooded animals, has been spreading across Central America since early 2023 and recently reached southern Mexico, raising concerns for the U.S. livestock industry. These larvae...
