Upper Respiratory Tract Disorders Evaluated in Detail
What do you get when you “scope” 1,005 horses after 230 races, each within 24 minutes of the race, with the cooperation of 97 trainers over 28 race meets? A great deal of valuable data about the equine throat and the impact disorders of the throat can have on racing.
“Considering that upper respiratory tract abnormalities are widely thought to be a leading cause of poor performance in
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What do you get when you “scope” 1,005 horses after 230 races, each within 24 minutes of the race, with the cooperation of 97 trainers over 28 race meets? A great deal of valuable data about the equine throat and the impact disorders of the throat can have on racing.
“Considering that upper respiratory tract abnormalities are widely thought to be a leading cause of poor performance in athletic horses, few reports exist describing the association between performance and respiratory tract disorders in natural populations of racehorses,” relayed Montague Saulez, BVSc, MS, Dipl. ACVIM, PhD, MRCVS, head of the Section of Equine Medicine at the University of Pretoria, based in Onderstepoort, South Africa
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