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The United States is experiencing a record-setting summer, with temperatures in the Southwest topping the 100-degree mark day after day. The suspects among the causes of this heat streak range from global warming to La Niña,
A newly funded study at the Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center in Leesburg, Va., may help researchers better understand the origins of musculoskeletal inju ies in racehorses. The three-year study, which received
The Blood-Horse, Inc., has published a new title in its Horse Health Care Library series, entitled, Understanding Equine Nutrition: Your Guide to Horse Health Care and Management. Written by Karen Briggs, the illustrated,
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I am concerned about exercising my horse in hot weather. What can I do to make sure my horse is properly cooled out?
I have a three-year-old Thoroughbred filly who was shipped from Texas. When she arrived, she had a swelling on her hock that was called a capped hock. What exactly is a capped hock and how should I deal with it? Will it affect her ability to race
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The FDA has approved the first and only medication designed to improve the quality of repair to injured or bowed tendons. Bapten (beta-aminopropionitrile fumarate), manufactured by Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, is labeled for use in treating”P>The FDA has approved the first and only medication designed to improve the quality of repair to injured or bowed tendons. Bapten (bet”>The FDA has approved the f
A 70-year-old Washington state horse owner who raced in California has been sentenced to six months of home detention, five years’ probation, and a $1,000 fine after pleading guilty to an attempt to hire a person to kill a
The judge who was scheduled to preside in the federal perjury trial of a former Calumet Farm employee ruled on June 19 that evidence about how the stallion Alydar became injured more than seven years ago could be heard.
Paulo Margi, an Italian national equestrian champion who rode for Italy in the 1992 and 1996 Olympics, has been suspended due to the death of a horse he was training. The five-year-old horse, which died in its stall, was
A new AHSA drugs and medications rule change proposal has emerged as a result of the June 1 AHSA Drugs and Medications Committee meeting. The new proposal, which would permit the therapeutic use of two NSAIDs, will be presented in final form and
Two bills have been introduced in Congress to deal with the growing problem of animal waste disposal in the United States. Senator Tom Harkin (R-Iowa) has introduced S. 1323, the “Animal Agriculture Reform Act,” and
The United Pegasus Foundation has a new home, thanks to Thoroughbred owner Gary Biszantz.
Biszantz recently purchased a 40-acre farm north of Los Angeles near Tehachapi and generously donated it to the horse rescue/rehabilitation
ReRun, Kentucky’s program to place ex-racehorses in adoptive homes, has been selected to receive this year’s Humane Treatment of Animals Award given by the Association of Racing Commissioners International.
Yearlings are a funny bunch. Gangly and half-grown they’re at that gawky stage where hips are higher than withers and where legs seem all knobby knees and hocks. Sometimes it seems that designing a correct feeding program for them is almost as
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