Congress Hears Race-Day Medication Testimony from Industry
Tom LaMarra
April 30, 2012
The witnesses all told Congress they don’t believe race-day medication has a place in Thoroughbred racing.
The witnesses all told Congress they don’t believe race-day medication has a place in Thoroughbred racing.
This project will evaluate NSAIDs’ effect on a horse’s ability to benefit from a commercial influenza vaccine.
After buying a horse, reality sets in, and the owner realizes that even one horse is a lot of responsibility and hard work.
Martin Nielsen, DVM, PhD, Dipl. EVPC, and Amanda Adams, PhD, will present at the conference.
New research indicates horses can slow body processes to conserve energy when environmental factors dictate.
The recording of TheHorse.com’s Ask the Vet LIVE event on the horse’s upper respiratory tract from April 19
Is your horse a noisy and uncomfortable breather? Does he struggle to breathe when you’re riding? Is his performance suffering because of it?
Learn about the latest jump safety features being used to keep horses and riders safe during the cross-country phase of eventing with Dr. Suzanne Weaver Smith of the University of Kentucky College of Engineering.
Since the program’s founding in August 2011, Operation Gelding clinics have castrated 406 horses to date.
In 2011, 15 horses in California were confirmed positive for WNV; four of those 15 were euthanized.
Sixteen colts or stallions were gelded at the March 10 low-cost gelding clinic.
The Texas Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory tallied more than 150 positive pigeon fever cultures in 2011.
West Nile Virus (WNV) causes a potentially fatal encephalomyelitis (inflammation of the brain and spinal cord) in a variety of species such as birds, horses, and humans.
The Federation Equestre Internationale (FEI), as the world governing body of equestrian sport, provides the framework for all FEI events, and central to this framework is horse welfare.
At home, your horse lives in an environment that you or barn staff strive to keep “biosecure,” or well-defended against infectious disease. But when you and your horse head off property, you’re taking him out of that controlled environment and exposing him to unfamiliar horses and possibly illness. Here, we discuss ways to protect your horse from infectious disease when traveling
All horses’ health can be compromised by the development of parasite resistance to dewormers.
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