Horses

• The 2026 World Cup will be the largest in history, featuring 48 competing nations, including co-host Canada and defending champion Argentina. • This represents a 50% increase in participants compared to the 32 teams that competed in the 2022 tournament in Qatar. • The event will be hosted across three North American countries, with the group stage featuring between three and six matches daily.

Prosecutors seek to try 17-year-old as adult after animals injured at major barrel racing eventA teenage girl who allegedly stabbed three show horses at a weekend rodeo in Las Vegas, Nevada, is a “crazy, obsessed stalker” who waited in a darkened barn to commit the attacks, the owner of one of the animals has said.The Nevada city’s police department arrested a 17-year-old female on Saturday for the incidents at the National Barrel Horse Association’s supershow, a competition for the sport’s top riders at the South Point equestrian arena on the Las Vegas strip. Continue reading...

• Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party is undergoing a structural overhaul, facing the necessity to dissolve and reconstitute several of its local branches. • In international news, Israel has deported activists associated with a Gaza flotilla, while Australia's feral horse population in the Kosciuszko region continues to surge. • At the Giro d’Italia, Afonso Eulálio extended his overall lead following Alec Segaert's successful attack on stage 12.