The Race-Day Routine
Tracy Gantz
May 3, 2019
A strict series of pre-race procedures is designed to ensure racehorse safety and welfare.
All aspects of caring for performance horses
A strict series of pre-race procedures is designed to ensure racehorse safety and welfare.
Oxidation is a normal process a horse’s body uses to transform nutrients such as carbohydrates, fats, and proteins into energy, but it also results in oxidative damage. Fortunately, antioxidants can help. Here’s what you need to know about the important damage fighters.
Track ponies, or pony horses, play important roles both on training and race days.
No matter what devices farriers use, their goal is the same: to give each horse the best opportunity to run to his potential. Here’s how they help racehorses succeed on the track.
A variety of initiatives on racing surfaces, race-day scrutiny, and more are in place at all three NYRA tracks—Aqueduct Racetrack, Belmont Park, and Saratoga Race Course.
Independent equine nutritionist Dr. Clair Thunes shares basic guidelines for feeding horses enough calories and what factors might influence your horse’s caloric needs.
A dressage horse recovered from EPM but still has an abnormal gait. An equine internal medicine specialist explains why owners of some horses with EPM might observe long-term gait and/or performance issues.
Drs. Mick Peterson and Wayne McIlwraith weigh in on what we’ve learned about racing surface safety, issues currently at hand, and what the future could bring.
Regardless of whether they’ll one day achieve Triple Crown glory or never make a start on the track, foals bred to be racehorses follow a similar path at the start of their lives. Here’s a look at how many Thoroughbreds begin their journeys.
Take a look at how adding studs to horseshoes can help horses navigate less-than-ideal footing.
The ground jury and veterinary delegate accepted 41 horses during the first horse inspection for the 2019 Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event. Here are some sights from the jog lane.
Sweat contains electrolytes (including sodium and chloride), so heavily exercising horses have significantly higher dietary requirements for both minerals than their idle counterparts. Here’s what to know.
Moving north for the summer or south for the winter with horses can make feeding them a consistent diet challenging. An equine nutritionist offers tips to ease the transition.
A genetic study of Norwegian-Swedish Coldblooded Trotter harness racehorses revealed eight major genes likely related to their success on the track, some of which drive the horses’ abilities to learn and remember.
Initiatives include building an equine medical center and quarantine facility on the Louisville, Kentucky, racetrack’s backside, hiring an equine medical director, and more.
Beginning Jan. 1, 2020, 2-year-olds would be prohibited from receiving furosemide within 24 hours of a race at coalition tracks. Beginning in 2021, the same prohibition would extend to all horses participating in any stakes race.
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