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Commentary: Track Regulatory Vet Asks ‘What If?’

“You know, Doc, that filly you scratched the other day? We X rayed that ankle, and she had the beginnings of a condylar fracture…”

I hear these words a few times each year when a trainer or private veterinarian is kind enough to give me a

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Racing Group to Give $500K in Scholarships

The Race For Education will award more than $500,000 in scholarship money this year to young people in the equine industry, bringing the organization’s total scholarship awards to more than $2.5 million since its inception in 2002

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Unwanted Horse Group Offers Speakers for Equine Events

The Unwanted Horse Coalition’s (UHC) National Speaker Program is up and running. The UHC has volunteers across the country who might be able to attend your equine group’s event in order to present information from the Coalition. Any

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Florida Track Begins Project to Cool Barns

Calder Race Course said Feb. 9 it has begun application of a new elastomeric coating to 60 barn roofs in the track’s stable area, a project that will help reduce stable temperatures normally hiked by the South Florida sun.

Calder vice

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Readers Vote on TheHorse.com’s Equine Focus

Close to 1,500 readers of TheHorse.com responded to a poll asking, “Would you like to see a special section on TheHorse.com that is about your other companion animals (dogs and cats)?”


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Tart Cherry Juice May Reduce Muscle Damage

A recent human study has found that tart cherry juice blend (TCJB) had beneficial effects on exercising muscle. The objective was to determine if TCJB can lessen exercise-induced muscle damage in horses, as measured by serum enzymatic markers.

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Massachusetts Euthanasia Case: Of Pleas and Precedents

A defendant?s admission of sufficient facts to warrant a finding of guilt on a criminal charge, such as one made by Elliot S. Saffran, a Massachusetts horse owner charged with animal cruelty, sounds a lot like a guilty plea. Unlike a guilty plea

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‘Jockeys’ TV Series Starts Tonight

The thrills. The spills. The rivalries, rages, and romances. And yes, the flipping, too. It’s all there in a new 12-part documentary television series, “Jockeys,” that begins Friday night, Feb. 6, at 9 p.m. EST on Animal Planet.

The series,

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Time an Important Factor when Dealing with Recumbent Horses

It’s something you wouldn’t believe could happen unless you saw it: You walk out to the barn in the morning and start to panic when you realize your horse has cast itself. Somehow, someway, your horse has managed to lie up against a wall and is

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