Horses are more likely to suffer from facial injuries if their whiskers are trimmed or removed, as they have no means of judging the distance to objects immediately in front of their eyes or below their muzzle. Is it bad to trim your horses whiskers? While it is not technically Read more…
Scratchings & Substitutes If any of the runners in your Quaddie bet have been scratched, your scratched selection will be replaced by the substitute runner for that leg. The substitute declared in each leg of the Quaddie is the runner with the greatest number of win units invested upon it. Read more…
The whiskers on a horse play an important role in their sensory awareness system. These amazing sensory hairs have their own nerve and blood supply and help horses navigate their surroundings. Does trimming a horses whiskers hurt them? While it is not technically HARMFUL to trim whiskers, doing so does Read more…
The process of removing potentially harmful sharp points and edges from the cheek teeth is called rasping or ‘floating’. This is undertaken on a regular basis depending on the age of the horse and the health of the mouth. What does it mean to rasp a horse? It is these Read more…
Initial wound therapy involves cleaning debris from the wound with a cold hose and using dilute betadine solution to help disinfect the tissues. A compression bandage should be placed to stop any bleeding and keep the wound clean until your veterinarian can assess your horse. What is the fastest way Read more…
Section 313.135 – Scratch by Stewards (a) The stewards may scratch a horse from a race when, in the opinion of a veterinarian licensed by the Commission, the horse cannot give its best efforts to win the race due to a physical disability or other physical cause. What does it Read more…
Horses get scratched when they’re lame. A horse entered in a race but deemed unfit to run must be removed, i.e., scratched from the competition. The most common scratches occur because a horse shows signs of lameness or an unsound condition. The removal of a racehorse from a race is Read more…
A mane is the long, flowing hair that grows along the neck of a horse, lion or other furred animal. Mane may also refer to a person’s hair if it is long and thick. Mane comes from the Old English word manu, meaning mane. Maine is one of the fifty Read more…
The existing literature on the properties of horse hair is very limited. It has been described as 60–100 μm thick and 2–3 cm long (N = 8) 11. A paper on horses housed outdoors under Nordic winter conditions lists the average neck coat length of 10 horses as 4.6 ± Read more…
A horse’s sweat can appear lathery or foamy because it contains latherin, a substance not found in human perspiration. Latherin reduces the surface tension of water and aids moisture in moving away from the skin to the surface of the horse’s coat. What does it mean to lather a horse? Read more…