Umbilical Cord Length and Foal Health

A long umbilical cord increases the risks for abortions and stillbirths in horses. Complications include strangulation of the foal and excessive cord twisting, writes Karin Bosh in a recent edition of Equine Disease Quarterly, a newsletter

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Training Resumes at Churchill

Horses stabled in a second Churchill Downs barn placed under quarantine by the Kentucky Department of Agriculture because of confirmed cases of equine herpes virus at the track will be allowed to return to limited training on May

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Churchill EHV-1 Update

Equine herpesvirus type-1 (EHV-1) has been confirmed as affecting horses at Churchill Downs. 


Three barns (6, 38, and 39) are currently quarantined on the backside of Churchill Downs.


To date, a total of five

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Update on Maryland EHV-1 Situation

As of May 20, there were no new equine herpesvirus (EVH-1) cases at the Columbia, Md. horse facility that has been handling a number of cases of the neurologic form of the virus since late March. Private veterinarians, Maryland state animal

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Mothers to Be

While the socialization process of transforming fillies and mares from racetrack careers into broodmares might be easier than it is for stallions, biologically it is significantly more complex for distaffers to begin their reproductive

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Update on Churchill Downs Horses

Necropsies from the two horses affected by neurologic signs at Churchill Downs showed the horses had lesions consistent with equine herpesvirus myeloencephalopathy (damage to the brain and/or spinal cord). Three other horses are currently showin

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Three Barns Quarantined for EHV at Churchill Downs

The Blood-Horse and The Horse have learned that three barns at Churchill Downs have been put under quarantine because of a possible outbreak of an equine viral respiratory disease. Rusty Ford of the Kentucky State Veterinarian’s

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Innovative Mare Milker

A new invention by Buck Wheeler called the Udderly EZ mare milker is helping breeding farms manage colostrum collection and the sometimes difficult task of milking a mare.


The device is a hand-held, trigger-operated pump that fits on a

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Maryland EHV-1 Update

Facility managers who are handling a neurologic equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) or “rhino” incident at a Columbia, Md. horse stable reported May 7 that one additional horse had to be euthanized. The horse had exhibited a low-grade fever

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Recurrent Mastitis

We have a 25-year-old mare that gets a case of mastitis almost like clockwork every 35 days.

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Maryland Horses Succumb to Neurologic EHV-1

Three horses were euthanatized due to severe neurologic signs caused by equine herpesvirus type-1 at the Columbia Horse Center in Columbia, Md., the week of March 21, according to the animals’ attending vet. Two more horses at the facility

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Bleeding of the Uterine Artery

There are two large arteries that supply the uterus with blood. One crisis that can occur is severe hemorrhage of one of these arteries into the surrounding tissue or abdominal cavity.

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