Many medical procedures are performed while the horse is under standing chemical restraint, but anesthesia in horses can be risky. One study cites an almost 2% mortality rate for equine patients within seven days of receiving general anesthesia.

“It may be especially difficult to correctly dose sedative drugs in very old or debilitated patients. Similarly, very anxious or excited

More than 870 readers of TheHorse.com responded to a poll asking, “Have you ever had a firsthand experience with a rabid horse?”

The Horse Trust has launched a horse placement plan in response to demand from desperate horse owners affected by the credit crunch.

The charity has seen a large increase in enquiries from cash-strapped owners who need to rehome their horse, yet at the same time has had to close the doors of its sanctuary due to a drop in public donations. This is the first time in its 123 year history

Imagine that overnight a new state law goes into effect declaring that from now on you do not own your animals but rather you are their “guardian.” Does this sound farfetched? Some local communities have already made this change The first legal step on this road has been the addition of “owner-guardian” language to local ordinances, then changing the wording to “guardian” only. One state now

Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health plans to donate 7,250 doses of EquiRab rabies vaccine to the Unwanted Horse Veterinary Relief Campaign (UHVRC) in honor of World Rabies Day. The donated vaccines were pledged to 150 UHVRC equine rescue and retirement facilities across the country, helping to protect the thousands o

The U.S. Trotting Association and the Harness Racing Museum and Hall of Fame will team up to present an adoption fair featuring racehorses and greyhounds on Saturday, October 17. The event will be held at the Museum, at 240 Main Street in Goshen, N.Y., from noon to 3 p.m.

About a dozen Standardbreds and Thoroughbreds ready for adoption will be housed as guests of adjacent Historic Track,

Through their whinnies, horses convey specific information about their identities, including sex, height, and weight, according to French researchers. Acoustic analyses of whinnies and the reactions of horses to various recorded whinnies also suggest that the vocal calls play an important social role and appear to be unique to each horse.

This is the first study of its kind in horses,

Ultrasonography is a valuable tool for detecting pregnancy and establishing pregnancy loss, but it can also be used to evaluate equine fetal growth, said W.K. (Karin) Hendriks, DVM, Dipl. ECAR. Veterinarians could use a combination of transrectal and transabdominal ultrasounds to provide good information about fetal development.

Because it is difficult to define normal development

Fans can enjoy a racing/entertainment doubleheader at Keeneland on Friday, October 16, when the Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation hosts a fund-raising celebration to mark the 20th anniversary of its creation, beginning approximately one hour after the conclusion of the day’s live race card.

The celebration will be held at the Keeneland Entertainment Center and will honor foundation

Eight Kentucky non-profit organizations were recently awarded grant funding totaling $60,000 by the Kentucky Horse Council (KHC).

KHC grant funding of up to $10,000 per organization is awarded to 501(c)(10) non-profits for the purpose of providing education related to the care and use of horses, community equine involvement, supporting the use of horses in a therapeutic setting, and othe

Pamela Wilkins, DVM, MS, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM, ACVECC, an equine critical care specialist at the University of Illinois Veterinary Teaching Hospital, recently received professional recognition at the international level.

Wilkins, section head of equine medicine and surgery and a professor of veterinary clinical medicine, was named the first recipient of the inaugural

More than 790 readers of TheHorse.com responded to a poll asking, “How knowledgeable are you about equine rabies?”

West Nile virus (WNV) has re-emerged in Italy, resulting in 28 equine clinical cases, including seven deaths as of last week, according to an epidemiological bulletin produced by the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise “Giuseppe Caporale” (IZSA&M), an Italian public health institute.

The epidemic began in central eastern Italy in August, in the same

Goulash, dam of two-time champion Ashado and two other graded stakes winners, was euthanized Sept. 30 because of founder. The 16-year-old daughter of Mari’s Book was owned by Aaron and Marie Jones and boarded at the Taylor family’s Taylor Made Farm near Nicholasville, Ky.

It earlier was reported that chronic arthritis caused

Tracy and Carol Farmer have chosen Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement Farm in Georgetown, Ky., as the permanent home for two-time Whitney Handicap (gr. I) winner Commentator, it was announced Oct. 2.

The 8-year-old gelding is currently at Mike Evans’ Sheltowee Farm in Versailles, Ky., and will be shipped to the 92-acre Georgetown facility on Oct. 4.

Campaigned for six seasons