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A horse dealer was accused of running a scam on people who thought they were buying healthy, gentle, broken-in horses and instead delivered blind, injured and sick animals. The Texas Attorney ...
The Equine Injury Database (EID) was launched in 2008 following a one-year pilot project where injury reports were submitted by racetracks in a hard copy form. InCompass Solutions, Inc. and The Jockey Club Technology Services, Inc., subsidiaries of The Jockey Club, underwrote the costs of the Database. [ 21 ]
Veterinary chiropractors typically treat horses, racing greyhounds, and pets. [2] Veterinary chiropractic is a controversial method due to a lack of evidence as to the efficacy of chiropractic methods. [3] Contrary to traditional medicine, chiropractic therapies are alternative medicine. [4]
Steven Allday (born 1957) is an American equine veterinarian specializing in lameness and sports medicine. He lives on a farm in Simpsonville, Kentucky , just west of the bluegrass horse region . Allday is known for his work in the Thoroughbred and Standardbred industries, primarily because of his association with several prominent equine ...
His specialty is reproductive veterinary medicine and he still frequently travels to the horse farms around Lexington. [2] Riddle joined Rood's practice in 1981 and became a partner in 1984. They founded Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital in 1986. [4] Larry Bramlage, DVM, is another partner at Rood & Riddle, specializing in equine orthopedic surgery.
A subsequent review of 206 horse carcasses slaughtered in the UK between 30 January and 7 February 2013 found eight were contaminated with phenylbutazone, six of which had been shipped to France. [67] The UK's Chief Medical Officer, Sally Davies, said the level of contamination, 1.9 mg/kg, posed "very little risk to human health". [67]
The show jumping horse killings scandal refers to an unverified number of insurance fraud cases in the United States between the mid-1970s and the mid-1990s in which expensive horses, many of them show jumpers, were insured against death, accident, or disease, and then killed to collect the insurance money.
Systematic review of studies of EAT as applied to physical health date only to about 2007, and a lack of common terminology and standardization has caused problems with meta-analysis. Due to a lack of high-quality studies assessing the efficacy of equine-assisted therapies for mental health treatment, concerns have been raised that these ...