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I recently realized that Dr. Deb Bennett has updated her classic article on skeletal development in horses. I was searching for it and most of the internet links I found for it were bad links. So, I ended up on her main website, were I was pleasantly surprised to see that the article had been [...]

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Here’s what a racehorse use to have to be fit enough to do:
1. The horses shall run four miles (over undulating terrain, on turf), and the winer shall be recorded.
2. They shall then rub for half an hour.
3. They shall then run a second heat of four miles, and rub for half an hour.
4. They [...]

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Most everyone knows that it doesn’t do any good to beat a dead horse. No matter how hard you beat, you’re not going to be able to convince him to load up into the trailer, jump that 2 foot oxer, or perform any other sort of task.
(Most) people these days also realize that it doesn’t [...]

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I went out to see the horses briefly this evening right as it was getting dark.
I saw both Jupiter and Venus tonight, which was pretty neat.
Casey Jane, however, was quite concerned about my flashlight. But, she’s a lot more confident these days. So, instead of bolting off, she just followed me around the pasture at [...]

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So, here’s a neat little horse mystery I came up with yesterday after some online research I was doing. Hope you enjoy!
You work as a detective at the local police station in Anytown, USA. It’s Saturday morning, and you’ve gone into the office to see if you can’t finish up several things you were working [...]

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A horse cannot breathe through it’s mouth, it can only breathe through it’s nose. So, that’s why you don’t ever see a horse panting or breathing hard through it’s mouth after a hard workout.
Also, horses can’t throw up (which is why they end up with colic and bloat and all sorts of other wonderful [...]

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“Of the 122 million equines found around the world, no more than 10 percent are clinically sound.
Some 10 percent (12.2 million) are clinically, completely and unusably lame.The remaining 80 percent (97.6 million) are somewhat lame, and could not pass a soundness evaluation test.”
- American Farriers Journal, Nov. 2002, v.26 #6, p.5.
This number is absolutely astounding. [...]

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Casey Jane (the mare I’ve been riding and working with) and I have been playing with the flatbed trailer. Sometimes she’s slightly skeptical of going over or on top of things, and although I’ve never tried to trailer load her, I imagine she’s not super confident about it. 
She does love cookies, however. A cookie means [...]

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So I’ve finished my first week of veterinary school classes! It’s been a really busy week, but pretty exciting too. I’m taking 4 classes this semester (Gross Anatomy, Microanatomy, Embryology and Physiology) and have either class or lab from 8am until about 4 or 5pm Monday through Thursday. And with studying on top of that, [...]

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