
EVJ Highlights Diagnostic Imaging, Equine Fracture Management Advances
A new EVJ collection available for free online highlights researchers’ breakthroughs in diagnostic imaging and equine fracture management.

A new EVJ collection available for free online highlights researchers’ breakthroughs in diagnostic imaging and equine fracture management.

Horse owners in Florida and elsewhere on the Gulf Coast are hunkering down as they await the arrival of Hurricane Michael, expected to make landfall on Wednesday.

Dr. Wes Sutter is a lameness diagnostician and board-certified surgeon. His primary veterinary interests are orthopedics and lameness.

Do retired, well-schooled horses really make good beginners’ horses?

Scott Hay, DVM, is the president and managing shareholder of the Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based racetrack practice Teigland, Franklin, and Brokken DVMs, Inc.

Read top tweets and take-home messages from industry experts on common racing injuries, their approach to effective rehab and what they’ve seen horses go on to do after recovery.

Our nutritionist looks at whether all-pellet diets are good for horses.

Find out which horses are at the highest risk for feed-related choke and what you can do to reduce that risk.

Sarah Morganti (ITA) and Royal Delight, Stinna Tange Kaastrup (DEN) and Horsebo Smarties, Rixt van der Horst (NED) and Findsley, Sanne Voets (NED) and Demantur NOP, and Sophie Wells (GBR) and C Fatal Attraction earned freestyle gold medals in their respective grades.

This common exercise modality can be surprisingly risky; learn how to keep your horse—and yourself—safe.

The American Quarter Horse Foundation’s research grant priorities for 2019-20 include infectious disease, parasites, and more.

Find out where veterinarians are seeing an uptick in equine infectious anemia cases.

Researchers determined that the equestrian community has still not reached a point where it can objectively—or even subjectively—compare arena surfaces in a reliable manner, especially for certain qualities like responsiveness and uniformity.

The vaulting arena was busy on Sept. 19 with the non-nations male and female individual freestyles, pas de deux freestyle, and inaugural nations team vaulting championship taking place.

Great Britain secured team gold, followed by Ireland and France taking silver and bronze, respectively. Ros Canter (GBR) and Allstar B earned the individual gold, Padraig McCarthy (IRE) and Mr. Chunky took the silver, and Ingrid Klimke (GER) and SAP Hale Bob OLD took bronze.

Switch your horse’s feed type or amount gradually to minimize his risk of digestive upset. Plan any nutrient-dense dietary changes carefully to avoid health problems such as colic or laminitis and to allow for maximum nutrient digestion.
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