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According to one team of researchers, WSC reduction varies depending on how long the hay is submerged.
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According to one team of researchers, WSC reduction varies depending on how long the hay is submerged.

A research team found that in young horses, as heart rate increased performance quality decreased.
Topics include foaling emergencies, equine strangles, hind limb lameness, and diagnosing neurologic horses.
Her growth/tumor is finally to the size that it inhibits her ability to flex her head back to her chest.
Two equine researchers were presented today with the inaugural 2011 EQUUS Foundation Research Fellowships.

Increased feed digestibility means greater conversion of feed to energy and–ideally–reduced feed bills.
Champion South African Thoroughbred racing sire Jet Master died Tuesday from complications from surgery.
The presentation discussed evidence-based approaches to treating airway disease (such as heaves) in horses.

Evidence-based approaches to treatment of airway disease in horses such as heaves (recurrent airway obstruction or RAO) and inflammatory airway disease (IAD), with Dr. Laurent Couetil of Purdue University.

There is a decided split between trainers and breeders on the issue of race day furosemide in Thoroughbreds.
On Dec. 6, the New Bolton Center will present “The Collapsing Horse: When it’s the Heart and When it’s Not.”
The meeting began with several presentations on furosemide and EIPH, the condition the medication treats.
The Race Day Medication Committee is debating whether therapeutic medications such as Salix should be banned.
An ASPCA veterinarian was suspended without pay after providing conflicting information to media outlets.

An acute aortic rupture caused show jumping champion Hickstead’s death during a Nov. 6 competition in Italy.
The sudden death of show jumping champion mount Hickstead could have been caused by a number of factors.
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