Legislation prompted by the attack on five Saddlebreds in Central Kentucky last summer was passed by the Kentucky Senate on Thursday, March 25, according to an Associated Press story.

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Random pre-race testing for “milkshakes”–the loading of bicarbonates through a stomach tube to reduce fatigue-causing buildup of lactic acid–began at Santa Anita Park in late February, but the California Horse Racing Board is referring to the program as a survey because no penalties will be applied if a horse tests positive.

Concerned over widespread accusations among trainers that

It’s a crisp February afternoon at Diamond A Farm near Versailles, Ky., and Emmett Davis backs his red pickup truck and trailer up to a foaling barn. Inside the trailer is a 6-year-old Rocky Mountain mare named “George.” As Davis puts his truck in park, an 11-year-old Thoroughbred broodmare named Yekaterina (by Strawberry Road) is led blindfolded out of the stall she shares with her

“West Nile virus (WNV) is the number one diagnosed neurologic disease in horses, or close to it,” said William Saville, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM, of The Ohio State University, at a March 10 Fort Dodge Animal Health educational seminar for veterinarians held in Lexington, Ky. “Because of the decreased number of cases in 2003 compared to 2002, people are starting to think we’ve got WNV under

“West Nile virus (WNV) is coming to a state near you if it hasn’t already arrived,” said Eileen Ostlund, DVM, PhD, head of the equine and ovine viruses section at the Diagnostic Virology Laboratory, National Veterinary Services Laboratory in Ames, Iowa, during the Western Veterinary Conference held February 15-19 in Las Vegas, Nev. In a comprehensive overview of WNV’s activity in the United