Cargill is voluntarily recalling Southern States Triple 10 horse feed and other select livestock feeds due to elevated aflatoxin levels.
A standing equine PET scanner will soon be available at Santa Anita Park. Veterinarians and researchers hope it will ultimately help identify subtle pre-existing bone changes before they lead to catastrophic injuries.
One additional case of EHV-1 abortion was confirmed in Humboldt County in April. The NDA did not issue a quarantine for this case because the incubation period has passed and no horses have been moved to or from the property.
This gift will help the University of Kentucky launch a world-class equine drug research and testing program under the direction of Scott Stanley, PhD.
A variety of initiatives on racing surfaces, race-day scrutiny, and more are in place at all three NYRA tracks—Aqueduct Racetrack, Belmont Park, and Saratoga Race Course.
Benson will direct safety, welfare, and veterinary research, initiatives for Stronach Group facilities across the country, including, Santa Anita Park and Golden Gate Fields (California), Gulfstream Park (Florida), and Pimlico Race Course and Laurel Park (Maryland).
Initiatives include building an equine medical center and quarantine facility on the Louisville, Kentucky, racetrack’s backside, hiring an equine medical director, and more.
Beginning Jan. 1, 2020, 2-year-olds would be prohibited from receiving furosemide within 24 hours of a race at coalition tracks. Beginning in 2021, the same prohibition would extend to all horses participating in any stakes race.
As mosquito season approaches, animal health officials are encouraging horse owners to have their animals vaccinated against EEE and WNV.
The ongoing Equine Respiratory Biosurveillance Program revealed new information on infectious respiratory disease threats, including EHV-1 and EHV-4, influenza, S. equi, equine rhinitis A/B viruses, and more. Here’s what you should know.
The BLM Wyoming is asking the public to stay at least 300 feet—the length of a football field—from wild horses at all times.
The hearing will take place April 18 from 3-5 p.m., local time, at the Marsing American Legion Community Hall, located at 126 S. Second Ave. in Marsing, Idaho.
Two horses that attended the NRCHA Stallion Stakes, which took place March 30-April 6 in Las Vegas, tested positive for EHV-1. Additionally, an unrelated case was diagnosed in a Clark County horse with neurologic signs.
The positive horse attended a reining event in Ardmore, Oklahoma, the week of March 18. Since that competition, the horse has not traveled to any other event and is under the care of a Brazos County veterinary hospital.
The total population of the Maryland herd is currently 76 horses (21 stallions and 55 mares).
Corrine Sweeney, DVM, is one of the authors of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine’s 2014 consensus statement on exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage in horses.
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