The American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) honored two members for their longtime dedication to the association, including continuous efforts to promote equine welfare and the equine veterinary profession, during a luncheon held yesterday in Las Vegas, Nev.

C. Wayne McIlwraith, BVSc, PhD, DSc, FRCVS, Dipl. ACVS, professor and director of equine orthopaedic rese

The American Association of Equine Practitioners yesterday honored John Thomas Vaughan, DVM, Dipl. ACVS, and the late Dean Scoggins, DVM, with the annual Distinguished Educator Award for advancing the equine veterinary profession through impactful teaching and mentorship. Vaughan and the family of Scoggins were presented with the award during the President's Luncheon, which was held at t

The American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) has introduced Nathaniel A. White, II, DVM, Dipl. ACVS, a respected equine researcher and surgeon, as its 2010 president during the 55th Annual Convention, which is under way in Las Vegas, Nev. White was inducted to the post during yesterday's President's Luncheon.

White is the Jean Ellen Shehan Professor and d

Norwegian equestrian Tony Andre Hansen and his 2008 Olympic mount, Camiro, have been definitively disqualified from the Beijing Olympics for a medication offense. The disqualification followed an appeals commission decision handed down Dec. 4.

Hansen’s appeal of the 2008 ruling of the Fédération Equestre International (FEI) was dismissed last Friday by the Court

The American Association of Equine Practitioners will recognize a past president who has guided the AAEP in racing and welfare issues with the annual Distinguished Service Award during the 55th Annual Convention in Las Vegas, Nev. AAEP Past President Scott Palmer, VMD, Dipl. ABVP, of Clarksburg, N.J., will receive the award Dec. 8 at the annual President’s Luncheon.

Palmer, di

The American Association of Equine Practitioners will honor a council of family ranchers with the 2009 Lavin Cup, its award for outstanding equine welfare initiatives.

Established in 1995, NAERIC member ranchers manage broodmares that produce quality horses as well as provide pregnant mares’ urine (PMU). Estrogens extracted from PMU are used to produce hormone therapies.

While police investigate the shooting deaths of several horses in Wisconsin, a St. Croix County woman hopes horse owners will reach out to families whose animals were killed.

Since Nov. 19, six horses have been discovered dead or dying in their pastures in Dunn and St. Croix counties after sustaining small caliber gunshot wounds.

Former horse breeder Linda Kuhn said she

Increased worldwide movement of equids means increased potential for spread of horse diseases. The impact of a disease outbreak on the health of the animals in a country, as well as the health of the country’s economy, was evidenced with the equine influenza outbreak in Australia in 2007 and 2008.

“Clinicians (veterinarians) can no longer afford to delegate their

The American Association of Equine Practitioners’ 55th Annual Convention is on stage in Las Vegas, Nev., Dec. 5 – 9, as the world’s largest continuing education meeting for equine veterinarians.

The convention was expected to lure more than 3,500 veterinarians, veterinary students, and technicians for scientific lectures, industry forums, networking events and other op

The American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) will install longtime Louisiana practitioner Jay Addison, DVM, as a new member of the board of directors during the Dec. 8 President's Luncheon at the 55th Annual Convention, which is under way in Las Vegas, Nev.

Addison will represent District IV, which includes the states of Louisiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama, A

The American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) will welcome John A. Stick, DVM, Michigan State University’s large animal hospital chief of staff, as a new member of the board of directors this week during the 55th Annual Convention in Las Vegas, Nev.

Stick will serve a three-year term as the representative of District V, the Great Lakes District, which includes

Results of testing for equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) on a horse in one of the quarantined barns at Calder Race Course came back negative the morning of Dec. 5. This allowed for the quarantine on that barn to be lifted and, thus, the activity of all the horses in that barn, including racing, is now unrestricted.

Three barns at Calder remain under quarantine conditions implemen

The Royal Veterinary College (RVC) in collaboration with the Laminitis Consortium, the UK's leading laminitis research body, has been awarded a grant of £134,425 (roughly $220,730) by the Laminitis Trust, to investigate the effects of exercise on horses and ponies that are predisposed to pasture-associated laminitis.

The WALTHAM–initiated International Lamini

Law enforcement authorities in three Wisconsin counties are hoping the offer of a cash reward will lead to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for a series of incidents that left several animals dead or dying in their pastures. The Humane Society of the United States is offering the $2,500 reward.

Since Nov. 19, a total of six horses and five cows have been shot a

It’s no circus trick: researchers have shown that horses can count, despite 100 years of belief to the contrary.

By dropping apples one by one into two buckets, researchers determined that horses almost always chose the bucket with more apples, if the numbers were low (less than four). The horses chose randomly between buckets of four and six apples.