Horse show kicks off fair (Ravalli Republic)

Head, heart, hands, health and horses. One of the first events of the Ravalli County Fair, the 4H Horse Show featured about 40 participants and their equine partners strutting their stuff Saturday at the fairgrounds.

BLM labels wild horse adoption program a success (Casper Star-Tribune)

In a highly successful first-time competition, 26 formerly wild mustangs were adopted to suitable homes during the Wyoming Mustang Challenge, a program sponsored by the Mustang Heritage Foundation in partnership with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's Wild Horse and Burro program.

Track Workers Fare Worse Than Horses They Care For, Study Finds (New York Times)

A labor investigation says that 80 percent of the 110 backstretch workers at Saratoga Race Course who were interviewed were not paid minimum wage or time and a half for overtime.

NY finds labor violations at Saratoga horse track (AP via Yahoo! Finance)

An ongoing New York state labor investigation has found as many as 1,200 backstretch workers at Saratoga Race course may have been underpaid, overworked and required to live in unfit conditions, Labor Commissioner M.

Sheraton Wild Horse Pass launches Geo-Green (The Business Journal of Phoenix)

Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort & Spa is promoting cultural sustainability and environmental responsibility with its new Geo-Green program.