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Big Brown, the 2008 champion 3-year-old male and winner of that year’s Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, started back under tack Monday morning Aug. 17 at Robert N. Clay’s Three Chimneys Farm near Midway, Ky.

The farm typically exercises the majority of its stallions by galloping them a mile and a quarter under tack six days a week on its quarter-mile training track. This regimen

Vaccination against Japanese encephalitis might mitigate West Nile virus (WNV) infection in some horses, said a group of researchers from Japan’s National Institute of Animal Health in a recent paper.

Outbreaks of WNV have been reported in many countries, including the United States, but it has not yet been detected in most

Horse breeder Ernest Paragallo, who was banned from racing after 177 allegedly malnourished horses were seized in a raid of his upstate New York farm, has been arraigned on 35 counts of animal cruelty.

Paragallo appeared Tuesday before Judge George Pulver Jr. in Greene County Court but didn’t enter a plea. The case was adjourned for 45 days. Paragallo remains free on $5,000 bail and has

Following a brief procedure to correct a breathing problem, Mine That Bird, winner of the Kentucky Derby, departed the Ruffian Equine Medical Center shortly after noon Tuesday Aug. 18 to return to Saratoga and continue preparations for the 140th running of the $1-million Shadwell Travers Stakes Aug. 29.

“It was as smooth as silk,” trainer Chip Woolley said of the procedure performed by

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Neurectomy of the deep branch of the lateral plantar nerve resulted in a “profound” atrophy of the muscular portion of the proximal suspensory ligament reports researchers in the Equine Veterinary Journal.

The surgical procedure is routinely performed for the management of inflammation of the proximal suspensory ligament (proximal suspensory desmitis). Multiple retrospective

For the past five years, the University of Kentucky Livestock Disease Diagnostic Center (LDDC) has worked toward attaining national accreditation.

Equine owners should be extra vigilant for signs of pigeon fever in their horses, according to Colorado State University veterinarians. A spike in reported cases of this infectious disease has been reported in the northern Front Range of Colorado.

This highly contagious

Trainer Chip Woolley Mine That Bird will undergo surgery later today for an entrapped epiglottis, but the horse is still pointed toward the Shadwell Travers Stakes at Saratoga on Aug. 29. Woolley said the surgery would be performed by Patricia Hogan, VMD, Dipl. ACVS, at the Ruffian Medical Center.

Earlier on Aug. 17, the winner of the Kentucky Derby worked five furlongs in 1:03.83, the

The operator of a Texas horse breeding farm was arrested after law enforcement authorities removed 76 allegedly neglected horses from his ranch on Friday.

Denton County Sheriff’s Deputies discovered the horses at the Renazans Arabians ranch in Pilot Point, Texas, after a caller complained about their condition.

Tom Reedy, public information officer for the Denton County Sheriff’s

A horse residing in Harford County, Md., was euthanized and tested positive for rabies, resulting in a 45-day quarantine of the farm.

Around July 13, owners of the horse began to notice drastic changes in the horse’s behavior and gait. A large animal veterinarian examined the animal and suspected rabies.

The horse was then sent to the University of Pennsylvania’s New Bolton

A dietary nutraceutical composed of mussel, shark cartilage, abalone, and Biota orientalis lipid extract (trade name Epiitalis), reduced inflammatory responses similar to those experienced by a horse with arthritis, researchers reported in a new study. “Arthritis is among the most common causes of wastage in performance horses,” said Wendy Pearson, PhD, of the Ontario Agriculture

The 2009 National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame inductions, held on Aug. 14, came together like a great American tapestry, highlighted by the irrepressible Bob Baffert, who rose from the Quarter Horse ranks in and around his hometown of Nogales, Ariz., to become one of the top big-money Thoroughbred trainers of all time and winner of eight Triple Crown races; his star filly, Silverbulletday,