Showing posts with label Fran Jurga. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fran Jurga. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

The legacy of a laminitis fighter: Dr. Agne's brave run in a Saratoga stakes race

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News flash: Dr. Agne, an up-and-coming two-year-old racehorse named for the late equine podiatry veterinarian Bob Agne of Rood & Riddle ...
Monday, June 23, 2025

Remembering Clint Carlson: How a mild-mannered man in a Hawaiian shirt became the "patron saint of American horseshoes"

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I lost a friend on Friday. Chances are, so did you. This article is a roundabout way of introducing my readers to Clint Carlson, in case the...
Friday, January 17, 2025

Summary timeline: What's behind US Equestrian, American Horse Council calls for delay of USDA's new Walking horse soring regulations?

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UPDATE: On January 24, the US Equestrian Federation announced that the US Department of Agriculture had indeed pushed back new rules to prev...
Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Donor's gift makes equine laminitis research center a reality at US vet school

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A strategic collaboration between donor Nancy Link and Mississippi State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) will facilitate t...
Tuesday, June 11, 2024

SURVEY: Professional Farriers' and Equine Veterinarians' Attitudes, Knowledge, and Opinions Sought by University of Edinburgh Researchers

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Researchers from the University of Edinburgh’s Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies in Scotland are seeking online input from equine ve...
Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital opens doors for International Equine Podiatry Conference April 18-20, 2024

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Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky will host the third International Equine Podiatry Conference. The doors to the forg...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Horseshoer Joe Alfano celebrates 50 years of service with Pennsylvania National Horse Show Hall of Fame honor.

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Joe Alfano has been the horseshoer at the Pennsylvania National Horse Show in Harrisburg for 50 years. The horse show honored him this year...
Tuesday, May 09, 2023

Hoof bruises 101: Forte's Kentucky Derby scratch had a common but loosely-defined cause

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On Saturday, the 2023 Kentucky Derby favorite was scratched from the big race, just hours before the horses headed to the starting gate. Two...
Thursday, April 27, 2023

Meet University of California at Davis new veterinary hospital farrier Ian Davies

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Ian Davies, DipWCF is hard at work in his new job. The British-born and British-educated farrier has joined the University of California Sch...
Friday, February 10, 2023

PETA vs the Budweiser Clydesdales: A match worthy of Super Bowl weekend

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You might have heard that the Budweiser Clydesdales will be missing from your television screens at Super Bowl LVII this Sunday in Arizona. ...
Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Prevent laminitis: Wellness Ready stallside insulin tests accelerate Equine Metabolic Syndrome diagnostics

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We all know horse owners who can recite entire pedigrees, race records, or a lifetime of judges' scores. But veterinarians and farriers ...

Farriers at the Herning 2022 FEI World Championships: Who was minding the forge?

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Last week's ECCO FEI World Championships in Herning, Denmark , made farrier history when the event entered into an agreement with Mustad...
Monday, May 23, 2022

Badminton Farriers Prize 2022: In Search of the Best Shod Horse

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Badminton Farriers Prize 2022: Jim Blurton breaks records The Badminton Horse Trials, presented by Mars Equestrian, is one of only seven fiv...
Sunday, May 15, 2022

History-loving and history-making American horseshoer Bill Miller dead at 96

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History-loving and history-making horseshoer Bill Miller died today in Seattle, Washington. According to his close friend Dave Duckett, the ...
Friday, April 01, 2022

Preview: Rood & Riddle Equine Podiatry Conference

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Rood & Riddle Equine Podiatry Conference April 14-16, 2022 Spy Coast Farm Equine Education Center  Lexington, Kentucky Late breaking new...
Wednesday, March 30, 2022

New HISA racing rules for Thoroughbred horseshoe traction to begin July 1 in USA

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New federally-mandated racing safety rules from the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority will be introduced "feet first" thi...
Tuesday, August 03, 2021

The Olympic (Gold Medal) Hoof: Farrier Jim Blurton's Concave-Maybe Shoeing for British Team Eventer Ballaghmor Class

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Farriers love to argue about the ideal shoe -- concave or flat?-- for a three-day event horse, but when it comes time to shoe a horse for th...
Saturday, July 31, 2021

The Olympic Hoof: US Eventing Horses Try British Concave Shoes for Tokyo

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Two distinct styles of horseshoes dominate the sport of eventing, one based in Britain and one in Europe. There is no middle ground, or wasn...
Thursday, July 29, 2021

The Olympic Hoof: Therapeutic plastic horseshoes helped two US dressage silver medal horses in Tokyo

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Horseshoes, like Olympic medals, can be made from different metals. But this week in Tokyo, the world saw that they can also be made of plas...
Thursday, July 22, 2021

The Olympic (Laminitic) Hoof: Dressage horse diagnosed with laminitis before competition begins

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A dressage horse representing South Africa has been withdrawn from the Olympics after developing laminitis at the Olympic Equestrian Center ...