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Very few strides at speed are needed to increase bone health, the findings of a study suggest.

“The crucial difference between our study and earlier ones conducted by other researchers is that we allowed the horses to crib when they needed to.”

Horses competing in hot and humid conditions the focus of research at Tokyo Olympic test event.

Researchers devised an experiment to determine whether movement asymmetries in riding horses were affected by the anti-inflammatory drug meloxicam.

Canadian researchers monitor blinks, half-blinks and eyelid twitches in 33 horses.

Horses not only discriminate between individual human voices, but have a recollection of whether their past experiences centered around each voice was positive or negative.

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.