Summer Bird, winner of the Belmont Stakes, Travers, and Jockey Club Gold Cup, underwent successful surgery to repair a nondisplaced fracture of his right fore cannon bone Dec. 4 and is expected to return to racing next year.
Summer Bird is considered the leading contender for the Eclipse Award as the top 3-year-old male.
The American Association of Equine Practitioners will induct Colorado State University professor Josie Traub-Dargatz, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACVIM, to the AAEP board of directors at the 55th Annual Convention in Las Vegas, Nev.
Traub-Dargatz will serve a three-year term representing the Central District, which includes Colorado, North Dakota, Minnesota, South Dakota, Iowa, Missouri, and K
Utah practitioner Roger Rees, DVM, will join the American Association of Equine Practitioners’ board of directors as a director at large during the 55th Annual Convention in Las Vegas, Nev. He will be sworn in with other new members of the board at the President’s Luncheon Dec. 8.
Rees is the founding partner of South Valley Animal Clinic, a referral and primary care clini
A harness track barn fire at a county fairgrounds in southwest Ohio early Saturday morning killed two people and an estimated 43 horses, The Associated Press reported. The initial number of equine fatalities was projected at more than 60.
Fire Capt. Krista Wyatt told the AP the barn roof had already collapsed by the time firefighters arrived at the Warren County Fairgrounds, about
After collecting and analyzing five years’ worth of data on the welfare of working equids in developing countries, researchers have identified some factors associated with potential welfare issues and means of intervening and improving the welfare of the most susceptible animals can now be devised.
Since more than 85% of the world’s equids (estimated at 94 million) live in developing countries
A life-sized bronze statue of the legendary John Henry will be unveiled by his Hall of Fame trainer Ron McAnally at Santa Anita Park’s picturesque paddock gardens Dec. 26, opening day of the track’s 75th anniversary meet.
A Dec. 5 fire has ripped through a barn at a county fairgrounds in southwest Ohio, killing two people and about 60 horses.
The fire was reported about 5 a.m. Capt. Krista Wyatt of the Lebanon Fire Department said the barn roof had already collapsed by the time firefighters arrived at the Warren County Fairgrounds, about 25 miles northeast of Cincinnati.
The victims’
The diet you offer your gestating mare, particularly in the last trimester, can influence development of the placenta as well as the level of immunoglobulins (IgGs) in the colostrum, reports a research team from North Dakota and Texas.
“Foals subjected to external stimulants, such as reduced nutrient supply to the fetus, can have lasting effects on development including
Kentucky’s slumping horse industry appears on pace to be overtaken by poultry farming as the king of the state’s agricultural sector, economists said Dec. 3. In a state where horses are a mainstay of the cultural and economic lifeblood, the new top perch for chickens in the pecking order of Kentucky agriculture once seemed unlikely. But the equine sector has been battered by deep recession
Calder Race Course Dec. 3 placed a fourth barn under quarantine after a track veterinarian determined that a horse in the barn was showing neurologic signs of illness.
John Marshall, Calder vice president and general manager of racing, said the clinical signs were similar to those of a horse that became ill at Calder over the Nov. 28-29 weekend and tested positive for equine herpesvirus-1
Diagnostic pathologists at the Animal Health Trust (AHT), Newmarket recently published the first report of equine abortions in England caused by leptospirosis.
Although horses in the UK have been exposed to Leptospira organisms, veterinarians there have not seen a lot of illness caused by the bacterium, explained report co-author Katherine Whitwell, BVSc, Dipl. ECVP, FRCVS.
More than 960 readers of TheHorse.com responded to a poll asking, “What non-equids do you have living in/around your barn?”
The largest collection of Arabian equine art and artifacts will be on view to group tours when A Gift from the Desert: The Art, History and Culture of the Arabian Horse is presented next summer, May 29-Oct. 15, 2010, in the Kentucky Horse Park’s International Museum of the Horse.
It will be on exhibit during the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games at the park.
American Paint Horses with certain coat patterns and blue eyes appear to be at particular risk for deafness, reported researchers from the University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine.
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals(ASPCA) has awarded a grant of $4,000 to the Horse-Angels Ranch in Spencer, Ind. The grant funding will be used by the group to provide feed for their rescued horses.
The ASPCA Equine Fund provides grants to non-profit equine welfare organizations in the United States.
The University of Saskatchewan's Board of Governors has approved the appointment of Douglas Freeman, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACT, as the new dean of the Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM).
Freeman, who begins his five-year term on March 1, 2010, will become the regional veterinary college's sixth dean in its 45-year history. He will replace Charles Rhodes, DVM, MSc,
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