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Topic: horses
(Image: AAP/Vince Caligiuri)

Australia’s rising racehorse hypocrisy

Culture

Oct 24, 2019

21

Animal welfare protesters at Caulfield Race Course (Image:AAP/James Ross)

How do we create responsibility in horse racing?

Sport

and

Oct 22, 2019

9

Not all horses: a response to The Daily Telegraph

Humour

Oct 09, 2018

11

Almost 100 years ago another woman was making history at Flemington.

‘Extremely improbable that girls will ever be allowed to ride’

crikey15

Nov 04, 2015

2

The polls keep getting better for Labor, so maybe Rudd is right to hold his nerve and not call the election just yet. Plus other political snippets noted along the way.

Richard Farmer’s chunky bits

Politics

Jul 29, 2013

1

Student journalist <b>Michelle Slater</b> talks to Australian vet Dr Judith Mulholland, who has been working in Cairo, about the horses and cats that are the unseen victims of Egypt's political struggles.

Starving, suffering horses a casualty of Egypt’s revolution

Middle East

Mar 18, 2013

Getting a horse in the Melbourne Cup field is an expensive business -- even if racing idealists call the Cup an egalitarian race. <b>James Thomson</b> surveys the field of horse owners.

A Rich List field of dreams: who’s behind the Cup stayers

Players

Nov 06, 2012

1

Since late June eight horses have died from the Hendra virus and dozens of people who made contact with sick horses are now being tested. So do we have a handle on it? <b>Andrew Duffy</b> spoke to Australian Veterinary Association president Barry Smith.

Do we have a handle on Hendra?

Crikey Clarifier

Jul 13, 2011

4

Quit horsing around with those leg extensions. Sorry, had to be said. Seattle artist Kim Graham has built her own horsey stilt-like legs from steel, cable, foam, and rigid plastic (with optional fur).

Finally, you can be a centaur

Art & Design

Jun 24, 2009

With horse racing unlikely in NSW before next year the damages are bound to be enormous. And so is the potential backlash from voters. The maladministration at the government quarantine centre affects not just the thoroughbred racing industry but tens of thousands of recreational horse riders.

Will the horsey crowd punish a Government?

Politics

Aug 31, 2007

The Australian racing industry has often been dubbed “the Catholic Church at play” so strong has been the link between racing industry “identities” and the Catholic Church for a century or more.

Racing industry and Catholic church at odds

News

Jul 09, 2007

There are 11 articles in horses