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NAHMS Study Ranks EIA Awareness and Testing Rates
Horse owners’ familiarity with equine infectious anemia (EIA) varies greatly by where they live, the size of their operation, and how they used their horses, according to the National Animal Health Monitoring System’s (NAHMS) Equine 2005
Lukas Offers Keys to Success During AAEP Convention Keynote Speech
Thoroughbred trainer D. Wayne Lukas received a standing ovation Sunday (Dec. 3) following his keynote speech that opened the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) convention in San Antonio, Texas.
The Hall of Fame trainer
Regulation of Steroids to be Recommended
Members of the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium (RMTC) are expected to recommend regulation of anabolic steroids in racehorses, but the timetable for the regulations remains up in the air.
RMTC officials earlier in the year said
South Korean Rider Dies After Equestrian Fall at Doha; First Death at an Asian Games
South Korean eventer Kim Hyung-chil was crushed by his horse after missing a jump on a muddy equestrian course at the Asian Games in Doha, Qatar, on Thursday (Dec. 7), raising concern over how organizers managed the event.
It was the
Norman Gets Six-Month Suspension in Louisiana
Trainer Cole Norman was suspended for six months and fined $1,000 by the Delta Downs stewards after two horses he saddled in the Jean Lafitte Stakes Nov. 3 at Delta Downs tested in excess of the permitted levels of total carbon dioxide (TCO2). H
APHA Incentive Programs Offer Big Paybacks for Talented American Paint Horses in 2007
Beginning Jan. 1, 2007, the American Paint Horse Association (APHA) will introduce exciting changes to its Gelding Plus and Paint Preferred incentive programs. Offering a potential $193,000 in added money through the programs, APHA gives owners
El Rito Ranger District Plans Wild Horse Adoption
Wild horses rounded up on the Carson National Forest northeast of El Rito in Taos, N.M., are available for adoption.
A contractor has captured 31 horses on the Jarita Mesa in an effort to reduce the population in the area.
Carson
Arlington Park to Install State-of-the-Art Racing Surface for 2007 Season
Arlington Park announced today that it will begin construction immediately to replace its conventional dirt track with a new state-of-the-art, synthetic racing surface to enhance athlete safety in advance of the 2007 race meet, which begins on
Virginia Maryland Group Works at Solving the EPM Enigma
Researchers have puzzled over how Sarcocystis neurona, the single-celled protozoan parasite notorious for causing equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM), travels from the intestine, through the blood-brain barrier, and into the centra
What Causes Seizures?
What causes seizures in horses? Is there anything we can do?
Digital X Rays Simplify Repository Procedures at Keeneland Sales
Keeneland first to offer digital technology for reviewing pre-sale digital radiography exams involving thousands of horses
The Keeneland Thoroughbred breeding stock auction held November in Lexington, Ky., marked the first time
Animal Disaster Team Rides to Rescue
A horse rescue in Western Maryland involved the same Humane Society disaster team that responds to hurricanes, floods and forest fires.
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Claude A. Ragle, DVM, received the Distinguished Service Award during the American Association of Equine Practitioners’ (AAEP) 52nd Annual Convention in San Antonio, Texas. The award, given to an individual who has provided exemplary service to Harry Werner, VMD, of North Granby, Conn., has been selected as the next vice president of the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP). He was inducted into office yesterday (Dec. 5) at the AAEP 52nd Annual Convention in San Antonio, David Dean Whitaker, director of the Horse Science School of Agriculture and Agriscience at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), has been selected as the American Association of Equine Practitioners’ (AAEP) equine industry board The loss of star racehorses in training and the negative effect it has on the sport was a hot topic during a panel discussion Dec. 5 at the 33rd Symposium on Racing & Gaming in Tucson, Ariz. A panel that included Eclipse Award-winnin Readers’ Most PopularWeekly Poll |
