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Endurance: horse euthanised after fracturing a fetlock - banned painkillers found in autopsy
11/06/2020 - Castlebar Contraband died on 15 October 2016, but the incident was brought to the public eye only a few days ago, following a sentence handed down by the FEI (Federazione Equestre Internazionale).
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Horse racing: another horse dies on the trotting racecourse
09/06/2020 - In the wake of Aramist (4 years old) on 26 May, and Billionaire Glory (3 years old) on 1 June, yesterday it was the turn of Zufolo Grif, just 5 years old, to lose his life on the racetrack, this time in Follonica (GR), the same hippodrome where another horse, Bianco E Nero, was euthanised following a broken leg in a fall in a flatrace.
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NaEPF helps horses
08/06/2020 - Special thanks to the Nando and Elsa Peretti Foundation for their generous donation to IHP, that will help us deal with the COVID-19 emergency.
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Horse racing starts again, horses start dying again
04/06/2020 - Horseracing in Italy began again on 25 May, after the Ministries of Health and Agriculture gave in to pressure from the racing associations, opening up racecourses after the period of lockdown due to the cornonavirus emergency.nAnd horses die again:
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LET’S SAVE PRETTY
30/05/2020 - IHP is intervening to save the life of Pretty, a horse who was diagnosed with a disease requiring hospitalization and urgent surgical intervention.
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Chicago: an end to horse drawn carriages
22/05/2020 - Chicago joins other cities which have already banned the use of carriages in the USA, among them Salt Lake City and Biloxi in Mississippi, Camden in New Jersey and Key West, Palm Beach, Pompano Beach and Treasure Island in Florida.
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Lockdown effect: Palios and other traditional spectacles using equines cancelled
21/05/2020 - The cancellation of the most famous of these, the Siena Palio, has made the headlines
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Ippica, IHP chiede blocco fondi al Governo
19/05/2020 - coming soon
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“Mani in pasta” operation: mafia tentacles extend into the horse racing business. Again.
15/05/2020 - The "Mani in pasta” - or “a finger in every pie” - operation, which in the last few days resulted in 91 arrests of persons in Italy after a major raid conducted by Italy’s finance police, the Guardia di Finanza, coordinated by the Anti-Mafia District Directorate of Palermo, reaffirms what we have been aware of for decades: the link between organised crime and horse exploitation.
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Iillegal horse racing in Palermo
05/05/2020 - The COVID-19 emergency did not stop an illegal horse race in Palermo, which was filmed on Monday 27 April at 6.30 AM by the participants themselves, and then posted on social media channels.
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