The agreement covers areas of common interest including horse welfare, FEI rules and regulations, FEI Clean Sport, stewarding, education, and FEI recognition.
The Animal Health Trust (AHT), in Newmarket, Suffolk, England, is launching a trial of a vaccine for the prevention of a frequently fatal disease affecting horses: equine grass sickness.
Volunteers are visiting tracks to offer free sales listings that include a photo, a description, and contact information, to trainers and owners looking to move their Thoroughbred, Quarter Horse, Paint, and Arabian ex-racehorses onto second careers.
John Madigan, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACVIM, ACAW, will present “Gumshoe Sleuthing in the World of Infectious Disease and Neonatology: Discoveries That Changed Equine and Human Health” at the AAEP’s 60th Annual Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dr. Wayne McIlwraith became the first veterinarian honored with a prestigious career award from the Orthopaedic Research Society last weekend.
The course is intended for those interested in learning more about horses and the science behind the management practices used today.
Danielle Stacy’s winning essay is entitled “Moving Towards a Clean Sport–The Role of Next Gen Therapies in Equine Sports Medicine.”
The Eastern tent caterpillar has been implicated as the cause of mare reproductive loss syndrome (MRLS).
Several issues, including immigration reform and the Race Horse Cost Recovery Act (which would renew a provision that expired at the end of 2013 and place all racehorses on a three-year depreciation schedule as well as other issues), were discussed.
World Horse Welfare has become the fourth former FEI associate member to sign a memorandum of understanding with the FEI.
The BLM is seeking research proposals to develop new or improve existing ways of controlling the population growth of wild horses and burros that roam public lands in the West.
The American Endurance Ride Conference (AERC) has negotiated the final details in a motion designed to make clear the organization’s condemnation of abuses in international endurance riding competitions.
Vaccinating your horse against rabies is the best way to help protect him from contracting the invariably fatal disease.
The human and equine ambassadors will represent the organization and help promote retired racehorses in second careers.
The Animal Health Trust (AHT) Infectious Disease Group received the Sir Colin Spedding Award in recognition of the group’s work on disease research, surveillance, and management.
A Lane County stable is quarantined after one horse died and four others tested positive for EHV-1.
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