New research from Great Britain shows that a pasture management system known as strip grazing can help prevent weight gain in horses this...

Vampire bats in South and Central America love horse hooves. They frequently feed at the coronet, where the blood is close to the surface....

Two dressage horses recovered from suspensory ligament and superficial flexor tendon injuries following direct injection of enhanced equin...

There's a table under those mattresses. Did you ever wonder what structure supports an anesthetized, recumbent 1,200-pound horse w...

A sculpture honoring the relationship between a master and apprentice above the  Craiglockhart Primary School  in Edinburgh, Scotland. Pho...

Palm Beach Equine Clinic (PBEC) in Wellington, Florida shared the news last week that equine podiatry consultant Stephen E. O’Grady, DVM...

An earlier report on the successful return to racing for Brazilian champion colt Bal a Bali regretted the lack of details about the hors...

Lane A. Wallett, DVM is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Florida in Gainesville. She presented an abstract on her paleontology rese...

Researchers in Vienna, Austria have conducted in vitro studies of the   milk thistle   plant to determine its effect on laminar tis...

At the 60th Annual Convention of the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) , held December 5 to 9, 2014 in Salt Lake City, ...

“What would you do?” That was the question at the British Equine Veterinary Association (BEVA) Congress Farriery Day earlier this ...

Six years ago, Molly the Pony turned the world upside down on by wearing a strap-on prosthetic on her amputated limb. If she read the ...

A new study published today in Great Britain sorts out what is likely to send horses to vets and farriers for treatment there, and you ...

The dream is over, and that's horse racing. The champion is just a horse, after all. But a special one.

The impermanence of art: the incoming tide will wash away the hoofprints on the beach near Mont St Michel, but the FEI has made a grand im...

Photographer Matthew P. Wright followed farrier Andy Edie around the Lambourn Downs area of England. The result is a photography exhibit...

Glimpses into the life of a farrier who might be found on the streets of London or in the rainforests of Central America or helping a h...

St Nicholas Abbey - Five months on from Coolmore Stud on Vimeo . This video is shown on The Hoof Blog with permission of Coolmore S...

This is the time of year when some nonpaying and unwanted boarders start moving into stables. The evidence isn't always as obvious a...

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