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Genetic testing has shown Dunbars Gold, a 1996 brindle Quarter Horse stallion, to be an extremely rare chimera, an individual with two DNA types. Of the more than 4.7 million American Quarter Horses registered with AQHA (excluding appendix horses), the registration department has a list of only 15 horses who have exhibited some form of the brindle coat pattern.

Genetic testing has shown Dunbars Gold, a 1996 brindle Quarter Horse stallion, to be an extremely rare chimera, an individual with two DNA types. Of the more than 4.7 million American Quarter Horses registered with AQHA (excluding appendix horses), the registration department has a list of only 15 horses who have exhibited some form of the brindle coat pattern.

With approximately 700 horses from dozens of countries anticipated for the upcoming Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games (WEG), feed management represents a vital part of the plan to ensure these elite athletes maintain optimal health and welfare throughout the competition. An elaborate plan is in place to make sure there’s as little disruption to their normal feeding program as possible.

The University of Kentucky Equine Initiative and the Kentucky Quarter Horse Association are partnering for a third year to bring Kentucky horse owners and breeders an educational seminar featuring guest speakers who will touch on many different topics related to the horse industry. Those topics include a discussion about the horse owner of the future; pasture management; marketing; hea

“Picaro,” the horse from Spencer, Mass., brought last week to the Cummings School’s Hospital for Large Animals at Tufts University with gunshot wounds, will undergo additional testing and a possible second surgery today.

A surgery on Friday to remove bullets from Picaro’s head revealed that the horse

Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is one of the most common cancers in horses. Commonly appearing as small, wartlike bumps on the eyelid or surface of the eye, they require early treatment. While a conscientious owner might quickly notice a new lump on the shoulder of his or her equine friend, even the most watchful horseperson will miss a concealed third eyelid tumor.

The

Jennifer Barrett, DVM, MS, PhD, an assistant professor of equine surgery at Virginia Tech’s Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center, was recently awarded a grant from the Morris Animal Foundation (MAF) to conduct research that will help determine better ways to treat lameness in horses, as well as other animal species, such as dogs.

Barrett’s research will focus on how to regenerate

Texas A&M researchers Terry Blanchard, DVM, MS, Katrin Hinrichs, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACT, and Charles Love, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACT, led lectures and wet labs at the “R. M. Kenney Equine Reproduction Symposium,” held from Sept. 24-27 at the University of Pennsylvania. Organized in memory of Robert M. Kenney, DVM (1924-2008), a luminary in the field of equine fertility and reproduction, the

When Dane Tatarniuk began his summer research project in 2008, the second-year veterinary student wasn’t expecting to play a role in developing a minimally-invasive surgical technique for treating sinusitis in horses.  

“My initial project was to investigate the normal anatomy of the horse’s nasal maxillary opening–the