Sports Medicine

All aspects of caring for performance horses

Big Brown to Run for ReRun in Haskell

ReRun, a nonprofit adoption program for ex-racehorses, announced that owners IEAH Stables and Paul Pompa Jr. will have Big Brown, winner of this year’s Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands and Preakness (both gr. I), participate in the

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Liverpool Equine Veterinarians at Heart of Olympics

Three members of University of Liverpool staff will lend their expertise and support to the equestrian teams competing in this year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games.


Peter Bowling, BSc, BVSc, MRCVS, lecturer and clinical director of the

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Readers Respond: Olympic Fever

More than 1,200 readers of TheHorse.com responded to a poll asking, “How will you watch the equestrian events of the 2008 Olympic Games?”


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Dressage Rider Morse Withdraws from Olympics

Leslie Morse has withdrawn Kingston from the U.S. Olympic Team in Dressage for veterinary reasons.

Following the selection procedures, the United States Equestrian federation (USEF) named Michael Barisone and Neruda as the designated

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Racehorse Brass Hat Sidelined by Suspensory Injury

Brass Hat has an injury that will keep him from training for the next three months, which means he could not race before 2009, even if all goes well. The 7-year-old gelded son of Prized suffered a strained suspensory ligament in his left leg.

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Synthetic Track Surfaces Discussed in New York

A cross-section of the racing industry addressed the New York Task Force on Retired Race Horses on the subject of synthetic surfaces at a one-day forum held July 29 at the Fasig-Tipton Sales Co. pavilion in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Sixteen

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Equine Welfare Heads Jockey Club Round Table Agenda

The Jockey Club’s Thoroughbred Safety Committee, which in June issued its initial recommendations calling for the elimination of anabolic steroids in training and racing, a ban on toe grabs, and a series of whip-related reforms, will provide an

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Emerging Equine Disease: Four Diseases/Syndromes to Watch

In 1968 the U.S. Surgeon General proclaimed that the war on infectious diseases had been won. Unfortunately, this statement was not true. Ongoing outbreaks of disease in humans and animals worldwide have established repeatedly that the war on

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Olympic Horses Arrive in Hong Kong

Nearly 70 equine athletes in the Olympic Equestrian Events have landed in Hong Kong, stepping off their flights and being whisked by first-class transport to spacious and cool accommodations in Sha Tin. The cosmopolitan horses represent 18

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Elective Drug Testing Offered for All Olympic Horses

The Hong Kong Jockey Club’s racing laboratory will be offering post-arrival elective testing for all horses coming to Hong Kong for the Beijing 2008 Olympic and Paralympic equestrian events at the request of the F?d?ration Equestre International

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