All aspects of caring for performance horses
High-speed maneuvers and abrupt stops can take a toll. Learn how to help Western performance athletes stay sound and competitive in this article from The Horse‘s Summer 2025 issue.
Nutritional strategies targeting oxidative stress and inflammation can help maintain cellular balance and support a horse’s long-term health and performance.
Here are 10 ways to reduce your horse’s risk of sustaining tendon damage or injury.
Find out how antioxidants support your horse’s overall health and how to ensure his diet provides enough of them.
An equine nutritionist describes the role of magnesium in a horse’s diet and why performance horses might benefit from supplementation.
Get insight into developmental orthopedic disease and its common signs in horses.
If your horse struggles to keep weight on in summer, here’s how to safely increase his calories.
A listener wants to know what osteoarthritis means for young horses.
Scientists believe feeding horses a high-protein meal shortly after exercise could improve muscle health and growth; however, more research is needed.
An equine surgeon answers a listener’s question about the safety of longeing her 2-year-old horse in this podcast excerpt.
Electrolyte loss through sweat can lead to dehydration, fatigue, and poor recovery. Here’s how to support your horse’s health during work and warm weather.
Where do free radicals come from, and how do antioxidants regain control of these wayward molecules? We answer these questions and more.
Nutritional evaluations take the guesswork out of whether your horse is consuming a balanced diet.
Find out how the amount of time your young horse spends in turnout might affect his joint development, especially in the first years of life.
Evaluate how supplements can fit into a complete equine management program.
Learn about the biologic, or regenerative, therapies that have altered the way many equine veterinarians treat problematic joints.
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