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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.
To subscribe to any publication, or for
more information, call 800/582-5604. To view/download logos
for any Blood-Horse Publications' brand, visit: http://www.bloodhorse.com/pressroom/logos/.
To view/download media kit information visit http://www.TheHorse.com/mediakit.
For more information, contact Robert Bolson,
Director of Corporate Marketing, Blood-Horse Publications,
859/276-6809; rbolson@bloodhorse.com
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