Kentucky Equine Research (KER) held its 2018 nutrition conference Oct. 29 and 30, 2018. The Horse and TheHorse.com had several staffers at the conference, and Editor-in-Chief Stephanie Church tweeted live from the event. Check back to TheHorse.com soon for recaps of conference presentations.

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Fascinating info from Dr. Pagan @kyequine on a pilot study of event horses: Conventional wisdom is if you get a horse too fit, you get a high (bad) dressage score. Horses w/ low V200s (heart rates reached 200 bpm at a lower speed, so less fit) actually had higher dressage scores