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Thoroughbred Safety and Integrity Alliance Earns Positive Review
The National Thoroughbred Racing Association Safety and Integrity Alliance received a positive review from its independent monitor Dec. 8 but was also told it has a lot of work to do in terms of educating the public and getting racetracks to buy into the alliance accreditation process.
The biggest accomplishment, perhaps, is the fact the alliance is intact and moving forward into
Controlling Wild Horse Populations Via Immunocontraception
Immunocontraception is a technique that uses the body’s own immune system to prevent pregnancy.
“For almost four decades we have known that antibodies against the membrane of a mammal’s unfertilized egg can be used to inhibit fertility,” explained Jay F. Kirkpatrick, PhD, director of the science and conservation center at ZooMontana, located in Billings,
Kentucky’s Only Native Breed
Located on the pristine grounds of Lexington’s Kentucky Horse Park is an entire museum dedicated to the commonwealth’s only native breed Ð the American Saddlebred. Writes Patti
‘Tis the Season to be Wary
Maybe it’s the state of the economy, with buyers on the lookout for ways to cut corners and cheaters trying to avoid honest work by
Wisconsin Livestock Shootings: Horses Sought for Families
While police investigate the shooting deaths of several horses in Wisconsin, a St. Croix County woman hopes horse owners will reach out to families whose animals were killed.
Since Nov. 19, six horses have been discovered dead or dying in their pastures in Dunn and St. Croix counties after sustaining small caliber gunshot wounds.
Former horse breeder Linda Kuhn said she
NAERIC Receives AAEP Welfare Award
The American Association of Equine Practitioners will honor a council of family ranchers with the 2009 Lavin Cup, its award for outstanding equine welfare initiatives.
Established in 1995, NAERIC member ranchers manage broodmares that produce quality horses as well as provide pregnant mares’ urine (PMU). Estrogens extracted from PMU are used to produce hormone therapies.
Racehorse Issues Leader to Receive AAEP Distinguished Service Award
The American Association of Equine Practitioners will recognize a past president who has guided the AAEP in racing and welfare issues with the annual Distinguished Service Award during the 55th Annual Convention in Las Vegas, Nev. AAEP Past President Scott Palmer, VMD, Dipl. ABVP, of Clarksburg, N.J., will receive the award Dec. 8 at the annual President’s Luncheon.
Palmer, di
Norwegian Rider Disqualified from Beijing Olympics
Norwegian equestrian Tony Andre Hansen and his 2008 Olympic mount, Camiro, have been definitively disqualified from the Beijing Olympics for a medication offense. The disqualification followed an appeals commission decision handed down Dec. 4.
Hansen’s appeal of the 2008 ruling of the Fédération Equestre International (FEI) was dismissed last Friday by the Court
International Spread of Disease Reviewed for World Equine Vets
Increased worldwide movement of equids means increased potential for spread of horse diseases. The impact of a disease outbreak on the health of the animals in a country, as well as the health of the country’s economy, was evidenced with the equine influenza outbreak in Australia in 2007 and 2008.
“Clinicians (veterinarians) can no longer afford to delegate their
AAEP Award to Support Wobbler Syndrome Research
Jennifer Janes, DVM, a graduate student in the Department of Veterinary Science at the University of Kentucky, was selected as the 2009 recipient of the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) Foundation Past Presidents’ Research Fellow award, which will support her project on orthopedic pathology and genetic association of wobbler syndrome (cervical stenotic myelopathy).
Update on the Demi Moore of broodmares
I know it’s supposed to be the time of holiday cheer, but is anyone else grumpy? Tired? Stretched thin (inside and out) from too much
AAEP Convention 2009 Preview
Sally Baker goes over the highlights of the 2009 Convention.
Wisconsin Livestock Shootings: Reward Offered for Information
Law enforcement authorities in three Wisconsin counties are hoping the offer of a cash reward will lead to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for a series of incidents that left several animals dead or dying in their pastures. The Humane Society of the United States is offering the $2,500 reward.
Since Nov. 19, a total of six horses and five cows have been shot a
Laminitis Research Group at RVC Receives Grant to Study Exercise Effects
The Royal Veterinary College (RVC) in collaboration with the Laminitis Consortium, the UK's leading laminitis research body, has been awarded a grant of £134,425 (roughly $220,730) by the Laminitis Trust, to investigate the effects of exercise on horses and ponies that are predisposed to pasture-associated laminitis.
The WALTHAM–initiated International Lamini
Calder Update: Quarantine Lifted on One Barn
Results of testing for equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) on a horse in one of the quarantined barns at Calder Race Course came back negative the morning of Dec. 5. This allowed for the quarantine on that barn to be lifted and, thus, the activity of all the horses in that barn, including racing, is now unrestricted.
Three barns at Calder remain under quarantine conditions implemen
Dr. John A. Stick to Join AAEP Board of Directors
The American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) will welcome John A. Stick, DVM, Michigan State University’s large animal hospital chief of staff, as a new member of the board of directors this week during the 55th Annual Convention in Las Vegas, Nev.
Stick will serve a three-year term as the representative of District V, the Great Lakes District, which includes
