Creating Freestyle Exhibitions

| Exhibition riding is particularly compelling for many dressage riders who sometimes prefer it to competitive freestyle riding. Tigger Montague, of Charlottesville, Virginia, is someone who has embraced exhibition riding…

10 ways to help horses with heaves

Virginia Buechner-Maxwell, DVM, MS, DACVIM, of the Virginia–Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine in Blacksburg, Virginia. “In this way, heaves is similar to human asthma, which is a disease caused…

How To Treat Your Horse’s Thrush

…he worked with Dan Flynn, VMD, at Georgetown Equine Hospital in Charlottesville, Virginia. In 2003, Dr. O’Grady started his practice devoted to foot disease and equine therapeutic farriery, Virginia Therapeutic…

Why hoof bruises happen

…than it actually is,” says Julie Bullock, DVM, a veterinary podiatrist based in Huddleston, Virginia. “The foot is a living, flexible structure; the sole and wall have some give, to…