It was found that 84% of the 261 horses examined had acute lesions in the bit area after racing.

Clinical trials using allogeneic umbilical cord blood stem cells to treat superficial digital flexor tendonitis or “bowed tendons” in horses preparing to start in Canada.

12 students graduate after two-year Diploma in Equine Locomotor Research course at the Royal Veterinary College.

“Horse owners, carers or trainers should not be forced to only use veterinarians for treatment of young horses when their practical training relating to all things equine dental is extremely brief and superficial.”

“Dressage sport has developed further, it has changed. A too low neck position is no longer accepted, not by the press and definitely not by the public.”

Most of the risk factors identified can be managed by caregivers.

The increase in obese horses and ponies is a globally recognised welfare concern. Here’s how you can get hands-on with your own horse to keep on top of weight problems.

It is weight loss rather than weight gain that’s needed to keep most horses healthy, an equine nutritionist says.

This is said to be the first published research to reveal negative attitudes from riders towards mares.

Feeling is only a perception and to be useful, the perception needs to be translated in the rider’s mind with a sound understanding of the underlying biomechanics factors.

Riders put three times more tension on the reins than their mounts set themselves in side reins.

Researchers found an adaptive metabolic switch toward lipid metabolism progressing in Endurance horses racing over distances from 90km to 160km.