Jockey Club Sets Up Racehorse Injury Reporting Website
The Blood-Horse Staff
March 6, 2012
More than a dozen racetracks have committed to publishing their statistics from the Equine Injury Database.
More than a dozen racetracks have committed to publishing their statistics from the Equine Injury Database.
A rundown of respiratory diseases commonly observed in performance horses.
In the current study most horses successfully returned to their prior athletic function after colic surgery.
Kissing spines are more likely to cause clinical problems in certain breeds, disciplines, and age groups.
A thorough physical examination and tailored therapeutic approach can help relieve equine neck and back pain.
Attendees discussed the horse’s overall work program, assessment, conditioning strategies, and more.
Horses do not have the same drive to drink while competing as humans, one researcher explained.
Farriers can help devise a hoof care plan to helps a performance horse return to work as soon as possible.
You can greatly improve the health and productivity of your pastures by creating and using a winter paddock or “sacrifice area” to confine your horses.
The first day of the Thoroughbred Genetics, Pedigree, and Performance Conference provided informative sessions
If you’re familiar with confinement areas, you probably think of them as small areas that don’t give horses much opportunity to move about. However, an emerging trend, called track paddocks, may change the way you view confinement areas.
The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission (KHRC) voted there was probable cause to believe that both jockey John Velazquez and chief state steward John Veitch were in violation of regulations regarding Life At Ten’s participation in the 2010 Breeders’ Cup
In reviewing the circumstances surrounding Life At Ten’s subpar performance in the 2010 Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic Nov. 5 at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission (KRHC) has concluded that the filly should have
Abnormalities in the throats of yearling racehorses will negatively impact the horses’ athletic potential, making careful evaluation of these structures an important part of the prepurchase examination.
“Veterinarians routin
Grey Parks, a graduate student working with Laurie Lawrence, PhD, at the University of Kentucky, conducted a study to determine if feeding endophyte-infected fescue would affect exercising horses, particularly their ability to recover from exercise in the heat.
An inaugural study has found that a sodium acetate electrolyte solution given orally with a typical hay and grain meal following exercise enhanced skeletal muscle metabolism to restore depleted glycogen (energy) sources.
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