New Year, New Tests

…their first show season with the new tests.? they’re always eager to see what the test-writing committees have in store for them at the levels they hope to be riding.?…

A How To On Deworming A Horse

…include a fee for processing and testing. If your vet’s office does the test themselves, it will probably run around $20. If tests are sent out, it can end up…

Cutest Dressage Test Ever

Dr. Deb Eldredge found “the most adorable dressage test ever” and we’d like to share that link with you here: Cutest Dressage Test Ever Let us know what you think!…

Dressage 101

…The Test Each level of dressage has multiple tests. For example, Training Level offers four tests, with each test progressively harder than the one before it. You’ll want to be…

NSAIDs for Horses–Use or Abuse?

…helps with platelet aggregation (an anti-bleeding mechanism) and constriction of tiny blood vessels. By blocking thromboxane production, NSAIDs help maintain blood flow in situations where excessive blood clotting causes problems….

Laminitis Emergency

…cell wall, which in theory will increase bloods chances of flowing through compressed arterioles (small blood vessels) in the lamina. Since blood brings nutrients and oxygen to tissues, its flow…

Dutch Warmblood

…Over the last 200 years there have been frequent infusions of “foreign” blood from France, Holstein, Hannover, England, as well as Arabian and Thoroughbred blood. Warmblood breeding in the Netherlands…