The Derby is run by three-year-old horses. Most horses don’t hit their physical peak until they are about four and a half, so the three-year-olds are still developing and getting faster. Some of the horses will be closer to their peak in September. The delay could benefit some of the horses born later in the…
Horse manure is rich not only in energy and soil-building nutrients, but also information about your horse’s health and well-being.
A study conducted at Britain’s Royal Veterinary College, which examines the effects of farriery interventions, in this case, road nails, has demonstrated the impact on horse movement symmetry, including weight bearing and propulsion.
Use this interactive tool to learn more about a horse’s normal vital signs and health indicators.
The weight-management benefits of feeding horses and ponies behind a regularly moved portable fence have been highlighted in fresh research. The latest research compares strip grazing to two other restricted grazing practices during Britain’s grass-growing season.
People emit a particular chemosignal while experiencing a specific emotion that induces the same emotion in another person who smells that odor. Chemosignals are chemical signals the human body gives off, primarily through sweat. Now researchers have found that horses also can smell human emotions.
As the horse racing industry continues to search for ways to prevent catastrophic injuries, researchers are evaluating a variety of potentially predictive factors. One of those is a racehorse’s stride characteristics. Collecting speed and stride data can allow researchers to create equations for determining training and racing’s effects on horses’ skeletons.
Grooming, at its core, is really about maintaining the health and soundness of our horse, not just making a coat shiny for a shiny coat’s sake. In fact, maybe ‘grooming’ isn’t the best word for what we do in those 20 minutes before and after our rides.
A researcher from The University of New Mexico is part of a collaborative that is studying one of the most important socio-environmental changes in human history: the dispersal of the domestic horse into the Americas in the 16th and 17th centuries.
We need science to back up traditional equine rehabilitation programs. Here’s a list of seven measurement tools and methods veterinarians can implement into equine rehabilitation programs to track progress.