Commentary: Racehorse Paynter Continues Road to Recovery
Steve Haskin
November 13, 2012
Steve Haskin provides an update on Paynter’s recovery at Fair Hill Equine Therapy Center.
Steve Haskin provides an update on Paynter’s recovery at Fair Hill Equine Therapy Center.
While training breaks are needed, prolonged rest increases the time it takes a horse to race.
The NTRA’s “Horse PAC,” a bipartisan fund, spent $416,500 in the most recent election cycle.
A World Horse Welfare representative spoke on the topic at the 2012 FEI General Assembly, held Thursday.
Nov. 7 results indicate 85 horses are negative for EHV-1; also, Oaklawn Park bans Hawthorne horses.
Researchers found that clinical signs of cannon bone fractures in sport horses and racehorses were similar.
Samples were screened for more than 45 anabolic steroids and hundreds of other prohibited drugs.
The filly’s eye was swollen shut the evening after her race, but no one is sure how or when she was injured.
The 4-year-old colt led from gate to wire to take the Classic on jockey Brian Hernandez Jr.’s birthday.
The 4-year-old filly led from the start to defend her 2011 Ladies’ Classic title.
Furosemide has been banned from this year’s Breeders’ Cup juvenile races.
The final contingent of Breeders’ Cup runners arrived at Santa Anita Park Oct. 31 after Hurricane Sandy.
Some tracks across the Northeast suffered some damage and power outages as a result of Hurricane Sandy.
The donation was made via the Breeders’ Cup’s new “Text to Donate” to Thoroughbred aftercare campaign.
The filly sustained the cut entering a stall on the plane that transported her to California from New York.
Larry Bramlage, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACVS, and Wayne McIlwraith, BVSc, PhD, DSc, FRCVS, Dipl. ACVS, will be on hand.
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