Knee treatment saves famous ‘painting horse’
Dr. Kimberly Brokaw, DVM, of Maryland announced this week that novel treatments introduced to counteract potentially life-threatening knee inflammation and arthritis in famous “painting” ex-racehorse Metro Meteor, appear to be working. Metro, the talented ex-racehorse who paints abstract in acrylics, and who has been featured on myriad national news shows, suffers soft tissue swelling within the joint capsule of his knees, combined with an arthritic condition and extra bone growth, Brokaw explains. His condition, which developed after multiple knee surgeries to remove bone chips, rendered him at the top level of a lameness scale. Brokaw explains: “The Lameness Scale is […]
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TRF kicks off Twilight Jumper series award
Last week, under the lights of the Great Meadow arena at The Plains in Virginia, The Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation (TRF) awarded the first in a series of new honors to an outstanding Thoroughbred jumper competing at the Twilight Jumper series. Lenny Hale, president, CEO and chairman of the board of the TRF presented rider Grant Chungo and his off-track Thoroughbred Ballinure (Parker’s Storm Cat x High Rolla) with the TRF—Outstanding Thoroughbred Jumper Award as part of an ongoing effort to raise awareness about the worth of the Thoroughbred sport horse. “It was such a great night,” says Lizzy Beer, TRF […]
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Cash prizes to honor OTTBs at Hampton Classic
The Hampton Classic Horse Show has joined with the New York Racing Association (NYRA) in an effort to attract and honor Thoroughbred sport horses at its star-studded event this summer. On Aug. 28, a Thoroughbred incentive prize will be offered by NYRA during competition at one of the largest outdoor horse shows in the United States, doubling winnings earned by Thoroughbreds in Local Hunter divisions, the $10,000 Marders Local Hunter Derby, and the $30,000 Speed Challenge, according to Shanette Cohen, executive director of the Hampton Classic Horse Show and NYRA Vice President of Operations Martin Panza. “This seemed like a […]
