The Jockeys’ Guild receives 2,500 injury notifications in a year. The average jockey gets sidelined by injuries about three times a year. A jockey’s life off the horse is grueling and, at times, dangerous. How often do jockeys fall? In Read more…
How to Post the Trot Practice Sitting Two-Point or Half Seat. Lift your bottom out of the saddle, tense but don’t grip tightly with your upper legs and stand slightly in the stirrups. Cue the Horse to Trot. Feel the Read more…
Furosemide—trade name Lasix—is a valuable medication for the treatment of exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage (EIPH) in racehorses. It’s also become an important tool for many barrel racers, since the high exertion inherent to competition can instigate the lung bleeding associated with Read more…
FLAIR Strips are drug-free and have been proven to be as effective as Lasix in reducing lung bleeding during high intensity exercise. The Strips reduce bleeding by normalizing pressure across the pulmonary capillary membrane. Can lung bleeding be stopped? If Read more…
Lasix also works as a diuretic that causes horses to urinate before a race and lose 20 to 30 pounds of fluid, thus increasing the ability of the horse to run faster. Is Lasix hard on horses? SIDE EFFECTS This Read more…
Some consider this a trick question. That’s because horses actually doze while on their feet and lie down for REM sleep. Do horses sleep with one leg up? The horse can distribute its weight between three limbs instead of four Read more…
Furosemide works by decreasing sodium absorption in the kidneys and interferes with calcium and magnesium transport. This decrease in sodium then leads to excreting more dilute urine. Research showed sodium and chloride losses in the first 4 hours are as Read more…
airway infection. Scope or Endoscope (2) The piece of medical diagnostic equipment that veterinarians use to visualise the airway of a horse. A “dirty scope” describes a horse with an airway infection. Why do you scope a horse? Why ‘scope Read more…
The procedure is not painful, but your horse will receive mild sedation to minimize stress and pass the scope into the stomach. The scope passes through the nose to the esophagus and into the stomach. Air from the scope is Read more…
Treatment begins with rest, ice, compression, and elevation (RICE). Athletes should see a doctor as soon as possible if they cannot walk on the injured ankle or have severe pain. How do you treat a horse with a sprained ankle? Read more…