Forty years ago, Henneke and coworkers developed a body condition score (BCS) system for horses that is widely used today. This system applies a score of 1 to an emaciated horse and a score of 9 to an extremely obese horse. The system was originally designed to measure BCS in Quarter Horse broodmares, but it […]

Kentucky (KY), United Kingdom (UK), and Australia (AUS) are major breeding regions for Thoroughbreds. Birth weights (BW) are commonly measured in each region and are perceived as important parameters for assessing foal health and future athletic ability. This study was conducted to evaluate how foal BW is affected by gender, mare age, parity, month of […]

Held every four years since 1990, the FEI World Equestrian Games (WEG) are the major international championship for eight equestrian disciplines. Although the 2010 and 2018 editions of WEG took place in the U.S., the majority of the horses competing came from Europe and were fed feeds made by European manufacturers. In 2010, Kentucky Equine […]