Q: My friend has a 14-year-old gelding who was gelded late (I’m not sure how late, but he did sire some foals) and is pastured with a 23-year-old mare. Last spring they were fine pastured together. This spring, however, she started her heat and he bit her severely all along her lower crest and withers and chased her around to the point of soreness and exhaustion. The

My gelding seems to always be in a bad mood. Snickers seems to be in excellent health, so I wouldn’t suspect that his behavior is the result of being uncomfortable or in pain. He is a manageable horse, but he’s hardly ever pleasant. I need advice.

PE is caused by the obligately intracellular (can only survive in cells) bacterium Lawsonia intracellularis, which causes an unusual pathology: intracellular growth causes proliferation of the cells lining the SI), thickening the mucosa.

A former Bureau of Land Management (BLM) employee faces multiple charges in connection with the fatal shooting of three horses located in a federal corral in Rock Springs, Wyo., in June.

The two domestic horses owned by BLM wranglers and one wild mustang were discovered dead in the corral on June 12 when a BLM employee

Global insurer Lloyd’s of London presented the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture a check for $45,000 on Sept. 22, in continuing support of Equine Disease Quarterly, an equine health research publication produced by the Department of Veterinary Science.

The award-winning publication provides timely research-based reports on some of the most important issues facing the

Scenes from the Walt Disney Studio’s forthcoming motion picture “Secretariat,” starring Diane Lane as Penny Chenery and John Malkovich as Lucien Laurin, will be filmed at Churchill Downs starting Oct. 5. Officials said filming at the track is expected to last five days.

Transformation of the Churchill Downs grounds is underway. Areas that will be used in scenes include the paddock,

Both the Maryland Jockey Club and the Maryland Horse Breeders Association are supporting a new project to train Maryland riders to work with ex-racehorses.

Maryland trainer Steuart Pittman, Jr. of Dodon Farm in Davidsonville is kicking off the Retired Racehorse Training Project on October 4, with a ticketed event at Maryland Therapeutic Riding in Crownsville.

“Retired racehorses are

TheHorse.com, companion Web site to The Horse: Your Guide To Equine Health Care, the equine industry’s foremost horse health care magazine, has archived its 15,000th horse health article.

TheHorse.com is not only home to articles on specific health problems facing our equine friends; i

In a stubbornly stagnant economy and with winter fast approaching, equine rescue operators are finding creative ways to attract financial support from beyond their traditional contributor bases.

Equine welfare agencies began to feel the financial pinch two years ago when extreme weather conditions and high fuel prices conspired to raise the cost of feed and other horse-care essentials. A

The International Collating Centre, Newmarket, England, and other sources reported the following disease outbreaks.

Contagious equine metritis (CEM) was recorded in France, the United States, and the United Kingdom (UK). One case of Taylorella equigenitalis infection was confirmed in France. The number of CEM-carrier animals detected in the USA since the disease was

Hoosier Park Racing & Casino has detected two horses in the quarantine barn exhibiting fever, so as a precautionary measure, both horses were removed from the grounds and shipped to a secondary quarantine facility per recommendation of the Indiana State Board of Animal Health.

Two horses were discovered Sept. 30 with spikes in temperature following the second of three readings on

Abnormalities of the upper respiratory tract are second only to musculoskeletal disorders as leading causes of poor performance in athletic horses. While a small number of horses with mild upper airway issues can be managed medically, many horse owne

My 24-year-old Arab gelding recently came off the trailer very sweaty and with tremors in his shoulder muscle and hindquarters. It was only a 15-minute trailer ride, and it was sunny, but not hot. Is he suffering from heat issues because of his age?

A single mutation in the genome of equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) was “necessary and sufficient” to cause neurologic disease in horses in a new study, reported Cornell University researchers.

All strains of EHV-1 can cause respiratory disease and abortion, but only a subset of EHV-1 strains can cause neurologic disease said Nikolaus Osterrieder, DVM, DVM Habilitation (equivalent to PhD),

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