Optimizing Dressage Horses’ Bodies for Peak Performance
Erica Larson
September 19, 2014
From feeding and training to shoeing and warm-up protocols, learn how to keep your dressage horse fit to perform.
From feeding and training to shoeing and warm-up protocols, learn how to keep your dressage horse fit to perform.
The Racing Medication and Testing Consortium (RMTC) is expected to agree upon a cobalt testing threshold at its October meeting.
Drug screening can offer additional information pertaining to the horse’s ability to fit a buyer’s needs.
Select riders, trainers, and other professionals toured the Purina Animal Nutrition Center, watched research demonstrations, and learned about equine nutrition in lectures in the company’s semi-annual Professional Horse VIP Meeting, held Sept 15-17.
Researchers recently found no link between the vast majority of horses who suffer from exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage (EIPH) and long-term racing performance.
The horse, a 2-year-old Arabian male from Suffolk, had been vaccinated for Eastern equine encephalitis and West Nile virus more than a year ago but was not revaccinated this year.
California authorities are hoping the offer of a cash reward will help identify those responsible for shooting a pony in its Sonoma County pasture.
Researchers looked at the support that bandages used after colic surgeries provide and how long that support lasts.
Fourteen premises in Texas and 168 in Colorado remain under quarantine.
The United Kingdom will establish a new central equine database as part of a more robust and enforceable equine identification system in the wake of last year’s horsemeat scandal.
A Virginia horse owner is facing charges after his horse died in the Shenandoah Forest.
Authorities have determined that a group of horses believed to be shot to death in their Utah pasture instead died of dehydration.
Unless horse racing first reaches industry consensus on medication reform, the NTRA does not expect Congress to move forward on federal legislation that would change current, state-level regulatory oversight.
Once fully adopted, Arkansas will join Delaware, Indiana, Massachusetts, North Dakota, and Virginia as the sixth state to fully implement the program, with many other states undergoing some part of the process.
Officials are urging owners across New York to vaccinate their horses against Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) and West Nile virus (WNV) after six horses in the state have tested positive for EEE this year.
Have you changed a horse’s name? In a recent poll, 66% of respondents said they have renamed a horse.
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