Exercise rider Brian VanSteenbergh shares his experience conditioning top Thoroughbred racing stallions. Daily exercise helps keep the horses fit and happy.
In their filing, the TRF directors say the charges made in the May 3 lawsuit are without merit.
In 2011, the organization placed 30 Thoroughbreds in approved homes and maintained an average herd size of 24.
He could face a suspension and fine stemming from a 2010 in which horse in his care had elevated TCO2 levels.
The website–cleanhorseracing.org–is dedicated to the reform of horse racing medication rules.
The KHRC will discuss a possible three-year phase-out of race-day furosemide in graded and listed stakes.
The colt sustained a long pastern chip fracture during Saturday’s Kentucky Derby.
At the center of vet checks is a close examination for signs of general illness, injury, or lameness.
I’ll Have Another ran past a freewheeling Bodemeister in deep stretch to win the May 5 race by 1 1/2 lengths.
The complaint alleges that for years the TRF took in far more horses than it could afford to support.
Dr. William Farmer, Racing Veterinarian for the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission, demonstrates and describes a race-day health check on location at Churchill Downs.
One BHA official said factors that couldn’t have been forseen or prevented contributed to the horses’ deaths.
Post time for the Derby is 6:24 p.m. EDT. NBC will offer three hours of Derby coverage from 4-7 p.m.
Dr. Foster Northrop, racetrack practitioner and AAEP member, describes the care veterinarians give Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks horses, along with what it’s like to be a Derby horse vet.
Salix is a medication used to prevent exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhaging, also known as bleeding.
Besnoitiosis is an emerging infectious disease of donkeys in the United States.
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