Latest News – The Horse

With many of the summer horse shows wrapping up this month at the Kentucky Horse Park, build-out crews for the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games have been ramping up their progress. Temporary seating Stand A at the Outdoor Stadium has been built, and workers are now assembling railing and seat backs before they begin Stand B, the largest stand that will be located across fro

The National Thoroughbred Racing Association Safety and Integrity Alliance will host the first NTRA Professional Education Seminar–Presented by Pfizer Animal Health and Keeneland Oct. 19 at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky. Attendance at the seminar will help satisfy continuing education requirements for racetracks as mandated by the alliance code of standards.

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“Can’t go over it, can’t go under it, have to go around it.” No, your horse isn’t on a bear hunt; he’s on a bucket hunt, trying to reach his food around an experimental barrier. Italian equitation science researchers set up this obstacle game to see how horses respond to the next question: “Around it, yeah, but which way?” Whether horses go right

The YMCA of Central Kentucky joins the World Games 2010 Foundation in welcoming guests from around the world during the 16 days of the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games, by providing facilities to athletes and guests who want to stay active during their visit. Any person attending or participating in the Games will be allowed free guest access to the Y’s facility branche

United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) officials have named the following horse-and-rider combinations in ranked order to the U.S. Show Jumping Team Short List for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games, held Sept. 25-Oct. 10 in Lexington, Ky.:

Summertime temperatures are running wild across the United States this week, with Oklahoma hitting approximately 105 degrees F, which is leading a number of equine owners to study their horse’s heat tolerance with more than a little caution. Other than a general lack of enthusiasm and desire to move to shade, a normal well-acclimated horse should be able to handle Oklahoma

The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission hopes to expedite regulations for out-of-competition testing and have them in place in time for this year’s Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Churchill Downs. Breeders’ Cup has employed out-of-competition testing in New Jersey and California the past three years. Such protocol has involved the testing of horses in other jurisdict

Horses with a chemically induced inflammation of the knee (carpitis) mimicking osteoarthritis (OA) benefit from the intramuscular administration of a polysulfated glycosaminoglycan product, reported a group of Argentinean researchers. Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common cause of lameness in horses with no known cure. “Management includes both therapeutic and non

In an eye-opening event, Mississippi State University researchers discovered that Quarter Horses diagnosed with the disease called hereditary equine regional dermal asthenia (HERDA) not only have skin defects but also important eye abnormalities. HERDA is a recessive genetic disease of horses that results in fragile skin that tears easily and heals poorly. “Recent