Training

Competition stress in a group of Hucul horses was examined in study in Poland.

“The results support the idea that hoof-surface interface interventions can significantly affect horse and jockey upper-body displacements.”

The pony returned to his previous level of exercise without any significant post-operative complications or degree of lameness.

Development of osteoarthritis is associated with multiple factors such as age, acute trauma, and/or irregular or repetitive overload of joints.

The complex network of demands around competition horses can result in pressure on the horses themselves.

Horses rested more in barns where more space was available per animal, researchers in Sweden found.

Neither age nor lameness due to chronic orthopedic disease had much effect on the time spent lying down in a just-published study.

The study team with the University of Buenos Aires calculates, for the first time, the water footprint of jumping sport horses.

Australian researchers measured the workout schedules of Thoroughbreds against their trainers’ track success.

“Fireworks are a noisy, bright explosion to your horse’s senses and can be at best unsettling and at worst utterly terrifying.”

Veterinarians, therapists and horse owners supported suggestions that would require regulation.

Bot fly larvae were found in the stomach of 20% of the horses in the study – all of them without a deworming plan.

“In contrast to our expectations, cows were not better tolerated by horses than a novel, mobile object.”

Some horses showed extraordinary abilities to remove their halters or untie the knots in halter ropes, some threw feed buckets at their owners’ feet, and some battered trees until it was raining apples.

When pastures are bare, horses are more likely to ingest toxic sycamore seeds, which can lead to the fatal disease Atypical Myopathy.