All aspects of caring for performance horses
Whether a horse is on the operating table for colic or a broken bone, pain management after surgery is critical.
Penny Chenery, owner of Secretariat, sits down with BloodHorse.com’s Lenny Shulman to share her remembrances of Big Red and his legendary career.
“What happens from the time a fracture is recognized to the time the horse arrives at the referral center is often as critical, or more critical, than what happens during the surgical procedure for fracture repair.”
Many horses are trained athletes that are bred and conditioned for a specific sport such as racing, jumping, western performance or dressage. While these sports are relatively safe, just like a human athlete, there is always a possibility of injury and in most cases with horses the injury tends to be lameness.
Bone chips in a horse’s movable joints can compromise the animal’s ability to perform, and, in some cases, they can even end the animal’s career. However, not all bone chips are created equal.
Short-circuiting an injured or ill horse’s pain response can not only help him be happier now, it can improve his long-term outcome.
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.
Nearly 125 people turned out on a steamy summer day, June 27, for the University of Kentucky’s first all-equine field day.
Lawyer Ron, the 2007 champion older male, was euthanized July 10 at Stonewall Farm Stallions near Versailles, Ky., due to complications from a recent colic surgery
A 6-year-old son of Langfuhr, Lawyer Ron was standing his second season at stud
Not one tree will be removed from London’s oldest Royal Park, the 183-acre Greenwich Park, in converting the space to the site of the 2012 Olympic equestrian and pentathlon events, said Tim Hadaway, equestrian manager for the London Organizing
Zayat Stables’ Pioneerof the Nile, winner of four consecutive graded stakes and second in the Kentucky Derby, has been retired due to a soft tissue injury to his left front leg.
One of the top colts of his generation, the homebred son
When it comes to pain management in horses, the words “osteoarthritis” and “phenylbutazone” seem to work in tandem. But not all veterinarians are sold on the routine use of this drug in horses. Phenylbutazone is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory
Owners and equine rescue groups with unidentified Thoroughbreds that sport lip tattoos now have access to free identification services provided by the Jockey Club.
Unveiled in April, the free tattoo lookup service allows horse owners and
Veterinarians will have the opportunity to volunteer their time at a Seattle-area equine rescue when they gather for the 2009 American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) conference.
Hope for Horses is the first equine shelter to become a
New national laboratory standards for racehorse drug and medication testing, the implementation of a laboratory accreditation program, and a new independent Equine Quality Assurance Program have been established by the Racing Medication and
Thoroughbred Le Havre, winner of the June 7 Prix du Jockey-Club (Fr-I, the French Derby) for owner Gerard Augustin-Normand, has been retired from racing because of a tendon injury suffered during the classic race, according to the Racing
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