Horse Care

Horses with skin wounds that were treated with an autologous platelet-rich plasma (PRP) gel healed more quickly and had a reduced risk of infection and sepsis than horses with wounds not treated with the gel, reports The Horse.  Horses with wounds that aren’t addressed quickly and effectively can have their lesions become chronic; these wounds […]

In its 20th year since inception, the New Vocations All-Thoroughbred Charity Horse Show Presented by Heider Family Stables raised more than $175,000. All proceeds from the show go directly to support New Vocations’ efforts to rehab, retrain and rehome retiring racehorses. Held at Highfields Event Center in Aiken, SC, New Vocations’ 20th Annual show brought […]

A recent study using 20 Marajoara and Puruca horses, which are semi-feral breeds that live on Marajó, an island in Brazil. These horses eat only native grasses grown in low-fertility soils; they have no mineral supplementation and their hooves are not cared for by humans in any manner.  Dr. Bruno Dondoni Malacarne, from the Marion […]

The Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company (CVFC) is selling a “Buy-Back” foal on SportHorseAuctions.com to benefit the Chincoteague Museum’s ongoing fundraising efforts to save Chincoteague, Virginia’s Beebe Ranch, the ancestral home of Misty of Chincoteague and the Beebe family. The proceeds from the winning bid of this Buy-Back foal will go towards the purchase of the famed Beebe Ranch. This Chincoteague Pony […]

Further to its launch of its vision, A Good Life for Horses, and 24 recommendations made to the FEI and international delegates at the Sports Forum in Lausanne in April of this year, the FEI’s Equine Ethics and Wellbeing Commission [EEWBC] has launched a new survey of equestrian stakeholders to hear their views on how […]

Gastric ulcers are an issue for horses of all breeds, disciplines and lifestyles—it’s not just a performance or racehorse thing. Owners, trainers and managers are bombarded with research and advice on how they should be dealing with equine gastric ulcer syndrome for years now, but throughout all of the chatter, there have been constant pieces […]

Micro-expressions in humans are facial expressions that last only a fraction of a second; though often discreet, they can be understood easily and often show a person’s true emotions. These expressions are involuntary and are hard to repress or control.  Dr. Claude Tomberg and a team of researchers from the University of Brussels wanted to […]

Last week, we published new data from a research project out of the University of Exeter which found that genetic improvement is driving increasing speed of Thoroughbreds in the United Kingdom. (You can read more about that study here and can find the complete paper in the journal Nature here.) The data showed that genetic […]

The Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance will be represented at Belmont Park during the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival. The 155th Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets will be held on Saturday, June 10, 2023, at Belmont Park. This exciting final leg of the Triple Crown will kick off with a week of live racing beginning on Thursday, […]

As regulators and veterinarians continue to put their heads together to examine the recent spate of fatalities at the Churchill Downs spring race meet, Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority CEO Lisa Lazarus said that “nothing is off the table” when it comes to preventing more fatalities – even, as we learned June 2, moving the […]