
How Does Arena Footing Affect Equine Athlete Longevity?
An equine sports medicine specialist shares how footing can impact soundness and offers footing selection advice.

An equine sports medicine specialist shares how footing can impact soundness and offers footing selection advice.

Find out how you can keep your metabolically efficient horse healthy when he’s laid up with an injury or chronic illness.

The steps you take to care for your horse both immediately after a competition and once you’re back home are important to his athletic longevity.

Work closely with your veterinarian to regularly reevaluate your horse’s progress and determine the success of your horse’s rehabilitation program.

Consider the horse’s lameness history and gradually increase varied exercises to manage these mounts, one veterinarian says.

Learn how champion Western riders select the perfect mount, train and condition him properly, and manage his health so he delivers his best in the show pen.

A nutritionist explains how meeting your sport horse’s dietary needs can help keep him healthy and performing his best.

Learn how young horses’ bodies adapt to exercise and how to prepare them for successful careers.

How to help performance horses of all types reach peak fitness.

Learn about devices designed to measure equine athletes’ cardiac function and maximize performance.

Poor air quality from wildfire smoke can be very dangerous for horses. An equine internal medicine specialist offers advice.

Exercise significantly affects risk of gastric ulcer development in horses, particularly in the glandular region, which underscores the need for management precautions.

Here’s how to implement feed and exercise changes for horses that are overweight or obese.

Find out how your horse can hurt his neck, risks for injury and disease, and associated therapies, so you can give your horse the best chance for a strong neck and an athletic future.

Understanding how and why injuries in sport horses happen might be the best way to prevent them.

Aging mules and donkeys need to be managed just as carefully as horses. Here’s what you need to know.
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