TheHorse.com to Offer Online Horse Courses
LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 4, 2008) -- Horse owners and veterinarians worldwide soon
will have access to online video Horse Courses presenting the latest developments
in horse health topics from some of the foremost individuals in equine research.
TheHorse.com, companion Web site to The Horse: Your Guide To Equine Health Care
magazine, will be offering monthly University of Kentucky (UK) Diagnostic-Research
online Horse Courses. The first in the series of 10 Horse Courses sponsored by Fort
Dodge Animal Health will launch March 13. Horse owners and veterinarians can sign
up now for any or all of the free Horse Courses by visiting www.TheHorse.com/HorseCourses.
Each hourlong seminar features cutting-edge information from two to four speakers
on different aspects of a pertinent horse health topic. While some speakers are
from UK, others are practicing veterinarians with valuable hands-on experience and
researchers from other states. Until now the seminars, which have been extremely
popular among veterinarians and horse professionals in Central Kentucky since their
inception in 2006, have only reached a local audience that could attend the seminars
in person. Now veterinarians and horse owners anywhere in the world can sign up
on TheHorse.com for the online presentations of these seminars.
Dr. David Horohov, William Robert Mills Chair in Equine Immunology and faculty member
at the University of Kentucky’s Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center, said, “Unlike
a typical research seminar that deals with an overly focused aspect of the problem,
or a clinical presentation that emphasizes diagnosis and treatment, we combine each
aspect into a singular presentation that in one hour’s time highlights the most
important aspects of the particular topic.”
Horohov, along with Dr. Craig Carter, director of the university’s Livestock Disease
Diagnostic Center, created the original seminar series and selects the speakers
for each seminar.
“It is crucial that horse owners and practicing veterinarians have immediate access
to cutting-edge clinical, diagnostic, and research information relating to health
care and wellness,” said Carter. “Research findings are often unavailable for up
to two years in the medical and lay literature. The Webcasts of the University of
Kentucky Equine Diagnostic-Research Seminar series being offered by The Horse.com
are just the ticket. Now, anyone in the world with Web access will be able to digest
and use the content of these extremely high-quality seminars presented by some of
the greatest minds in equine medicine and surgery.”
Fort Dodge has signed on as the Gluck Horse Course series 2008 sponsor. Rocky Bigbie,
director of veterinary relations for Fort Dodge Animal Health, said, “Fort Dodge
has had a long-standing partnership with scientists at the Gluck Center, and we
wanted to further solidify our relationship with them along with helping the veterinary
and horse-owning community. We’re happy to again work with The Horse on a project
that brings important horse health information to horse owners and veterinarians.”
Carter added, “Fort Dodge’s sponsorship of the University of Kentucky Equine Diagnostic-Research
Seminar series for 2008 is a superb testimonial to their immense dedication to the
horse industry. They understand the importance of clinical information dissemination
and the positive impact on veterinarians, horse owners, and, ultimately, the horses.”
The first online Horse Course is on dewormer resistance. Presenters are Dr. Gene
Lyons of the Gluck Center and Dr. Craig Reinemeyer of East Tennessee Clinical Research.
These equine parasitologists will offer useful, up-to-the-minute information on
tackling the growing problem of parasite resistance to the dewormers we use today.
Future courses will cover equine nutrition, foal disease, encephalitic diseases
such as West Nile virus, metabolic disorders, pituitary dysfunction, angular limb
deformities, melanoma, skin disease, and vaccination strategies.
For more information visit www.TheHorse.com/HorseCourses.
TheHorse.com is home to more
than 11,000 articles on specific horse problems, as well as educational materials
about preventive care and the management of horses and their environments. This
information is provided in a variety of ways, including daily news, an RSS news
feed, in-depth features, weekly electronic newsletters on health and welfare, the
latest information for horse owners from veterinary seminars around the world, pertinent
images, graphics, downloadable PDF documents, Webinars, audio, and video.
TheHorse.com and The Horse: Your Guide To Equine Health Care are published
by Blood-Horse Publications, a multimedia publishing company that traces its roots
to 1916. Its flagship publication, The Blood-Horse, is the leading weekly Thoroughbred
racing and breeding news and information magazine. Blood-Horse Publications also
publishes Keeneland magazine (a quarterly Central Kentucky lifestyles publication),
supplements, and equine-related books and videos under the Eclipse Press banner.
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