Save the Date: Kentucky Equine Research Schedules 27th Equine Health and Nutrition Conference for February

Kentucky Equine Research is pleased to announce its 27th Equine Health and Nutrition Conference, to be held February 5-7, 2024, at the World Equestrian Center in Ocala, Florida. This conference will feature world-renowned speakers and the latest advances in several fields of veterinary and nutrition science, and will detail how these findings can be applied to modern equine athletes.

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Kentucky Equine Research has been actively involved in the nutrition and care of elite sport horses for decades, serving as the official equine nutrition consultant at the past seven Olympic Games and providing feed and forage for the 2010 and 2018 editions of the World Equestrian Games (WEG). The company collaborates with the United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) to supply feeds and forage to teams representing the United States when they compete internationally.

Kentucky Equine Research maintains large equine nutrition research facilities in Versailles, Kentucky, and Ocala, Florida, where in-house scientists conduct studies related to equine nutrition and exercise physiology. We also hold nutrition and exercise physiology conferences where experts discuss important topics related to the health and performance of horses. In 2010, Kentucky Equine Research hosted a conference in Kentucky, Feeding and Veterinary Management of the Sport Horse, that focused on topics of relevance to veterinarians and competitors that attended the 2010 WEG, which was held in Lexington, Kentucky, that summer.

Since that 2010 Conference, there has been a massive amount of new research and technologies directed at performance horses. Additionally, the world has become painfully aware that the global climate is changing and that horses are competing in hotter conditions than ever before. Therefore, Kentucky Equine Research is hosting this conference, Equine Health and Nutrition Conference: Applying the Science, to present advances that have been made in these fields and to demonstrate how these findings can be applied to the modern equine athlete.

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