Latest News – The Horse

A student at The Royal Agricultural College of Cirencester, UK, needs your help: she’s looking for industry opinions of traditional and synthetic racing surfaces for a study on international equine and agricultural business management.

Synthetic surfaces have been introduced within the last five years and are slowly spreading across the United States. Some of the issues that are open for

From a layman’s perspective, cryotherapy (use of cold for treatment) for horses at risk of or just beginning the acute phase of laminitis just makes sense. The laminae are inflamed, the hooves are hot to the touch, so let’s cool them down and keep them cold. Researchers get that, too. But there are still some questions on how this method works, and there are some issues when it comes to

Not many injuries occur in rodeo, but PRCA requires that a veterinarian is on-site, both during the approved rodeo events as well as during “slack” competition held before or after a scheduled performance.

Since 1969, the North American Riding for the Handicapped Association (NARHA) has provided equine assisted activity and therapy programs in the United States and Canada through its network of nearly 800 member centers. Each year, dozens of new centers initiate new programs and more than 42,000 individuals with special needs participate in activities which include therapeutic riding,

A wide variety of hospitality packages for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games are now available. Daily passes, 4- and 8-day packages, discipline-specific packages, private suites, and chalets are available. Custom packages can also be created to fit any guest’s specific needs.

Details on all packages can be found at

Legislation to establish privately owned horse processing plants in the United States advanced this week in two Western states.

On March 24, the North Dakota State Senate approved HB 1496, authorizing a $50,000 study to evaluate potential legal challenges to slaughter plant development in that

Using a rope system to assist horses as they recover from anesthesia postoperatively, is a “valuable and safe way of controlling recovery,” reported Hans Wilderjans DVM, Dipl. ECVS, from the Equine Hospital De Bosdreef in Belgium, during the 10th International Congress of World Equine Veterinary Association.

According to Wilderjans, few hospitals have the money, personnel, or time to

Thoroughbred adoption program ReRun has leased a 40-acre farm in central New Jersey. The farm, called ReRun at Reindancer, will house Thoroughbred ex-racehorses looking for adoptive homes.

ReRun at Reindancer will be holding an Open House on Saturday, May 23.

“We have so many plans for our new facility; educational classes, off-the-track Thoroughbred riding and retraining clinics,

According to Belgian researcher Heidi Nollet, DVM, PhD, and colleagues from the Department of Large Animal Internal Medicine, University of Gent, transcranial magnetic stimulation of a specific region of the brain called the motor cortex can be a powerful tool to help differentiate between a subtle lameness due to a musculoskeletal problem and a neurologic process.

This is achieved by

Educators from Cooperative Extension, a unit of Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, will provide training, beginning this month, for equine and other livestock farmers in the development of “Self-Certified Animal Waste Management Plans” as required by the state of New Jersey.

On February 9, the state approved an Animal Waste Management Rule, obliging all livestock owners

Although it’s a painful option to consider (especially for the males in the profession), for some horse health problems the best treatment is partial phallectomy, or amputation of part of the penis. Such conditions might include penile injury, chronic paraphimosis (inability to retract the penis into the sheath), neoplasia (tumors), and stenosis (narrowing) of the urethra

The Young Horse Teaching and Research Program at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at Rutgers University will offer 14 draft cross yearlings for purchase at the 10th Annual NAERIC Yearling Horse Auction.

This year’s auction will occur Sunday, April 26, at the Round House at the corner of College Farm Road and Sheepfold lane, New Brunswick, N.J., 08901. The preview/bidde

Trail riding can be fun and relaxing, but it can also leave horses exposed to disease, especially if they are traveling to a new area or haven’t been given the proper vaccinations to help protect them from local disease threats.

“Horses that travel only once or twice a year are not out of the woods when it comes to equine diseases,” said April Knudson, DVM, manager, Veterinary Services,

Eastern tent caterpillars have begun hatching in Central Kentucky–and their population numbers are trending up.