recovery

The fairytale saga that is Victor Espinoza’s moves ever forward, chapter by chapter. His riding career in serious jeopardy following a training accident at Del Mar last July, the 47-year-old Triple Crown winner and Hall of Fame member remains his ever-affable self after a recovery just short of miraculous, back riding winners like nothing ever […]

Trainer Buff Bradley rode in the van alongside The Player all the way from Louisiana State University to his Indian Ridge Farm in Kentucky, keeping watch over the personality-laden chestnut colt whose recovery over the past six months has been nothing short of a miracle. Bradley bred the colt with his father and long-time client […]

A mare whose heart stopped after a tooth-extraction surgery was revived by clinicians who performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) by driving their knees into her chest. A third colleague sat on the mare’s chest and bounced up and down in an effort to get her heart to restart. Reported in the Frontiers in Veterinary Science, the […]

A recent study has shown that ultrasound can be used to predict the likelihood of a horse returning to competition after a tendon injury. The study, conducted by the University of Nottingham, Oakham Equine Hospital and the Hong Kong Jockey Club, used a scoring system to grade tendon injuries in Thoroughbred racehorses at the time […]

Traveling a different route than normal to get to a swap meet at 5:30 a.m., Illinois teenager Kelsey and her mom came upon an unexpected site: a starving horse grazing on the side of the road. Their swap-meet plans immediately changed as the horse-loving duo plotted a way to get the mare home. Clearly thin […]