Now that concerns about the spread of equine influenza have eased in New South Wales, Australia, the Department of Primary Industries is urging horse owners with quarantined properties to relax their restrictions for utility crews.
New
The International League for the Protection of Horses (ILPH) has appointed Roly Owers as the organization’s new chief executive.
Owers has taken over the reins from John Smales, who retired at the end of 2007.
Owers is a qualified
Researchers found antibodies to West Nile virus (WNV) in nearly 20% of horses recently tested in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), according to Ulrich Wernery, DVM, PhD, scientific director of the Centra
A liquid binder officials believe will save Santa Anita Park’s Cushion Track should take about 10 days to acquire and another four to mix with the synthetic racing surface, the California Horse Racing Board was told Jan. 16.
Track president
Equestrian events are poised to resume in the southeast area of Queensland as concerns about equine influenza ease, Treasurer and Acting Minister for Primary industries and Fisheries Andrew Fraser said in a statement.
“With no new cases
More than 1,500 readers of TheHorse.com responded to a poll asking, ” How do you encourage adequate hydration during cold weather?”
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Sometimes everything appears to add up in an outbreak of what resembles equine herpesvirus-associated myeloencephalopathy, the dreaded neurologic condition generally caused by equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) infection that causes ataxia or
Workers are smoothing out a pile of manure at The Downs at Santa Fe horse racetrack in New Mexico.
Crews are spreading the manure four to five inches thick over a 40-acre parcel of the track.The manure will be tilled into the soil and
Try to keep your horse from throwing a shoe between Feb. 27 and March 1st, 2008, as many professional farriers from across North America will be temporarily unavailable. Gathering in Lexington, Ky., leading farriers and veterinarians specializin
The group Veterinarians for Equine Welfare (VEW) recently issued a white paper entitled “Horse Slaughter–Its Ethical Impact and Subsequent Response of the Veterinary
About 50 horses had to be moved from a barn at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas, on Tuesday afternoon when a grass fire in an outer area threatened the structure. No animals were hurt, and the fire did not damage any Lone Star buildings.
After years of studying equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM), a serious neurological disease in horses, scientists have mapped the first steps in the migratory path of Sarcocystis neurona–the chief parasitic cause of EPM.
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Companies and other organizations around the world have taken advantage of the first opportunity to become a vendor at the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games Trade Show. The World Games 2010 Foundation launched its trade show advance
The World Games 2010 Foundation has appointed Peden Bloodstock as the official shipping agent for the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games, to be held Sept. 25-Oct. 10, 2010, at the Kentucky Horse Park.
Peden Bloodstock will be engaged i
Two veterinarians compiled the latest on equine orthopedic topics and presented it to their colleagues at the 46th British Equine Veterinary Association Congress, held in Edinburgh, Scotland
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