Karen Briggs

The Australian eventer is steering his star-studded career in a new direction by taking on the technical advisor role for the Canadian eventing team, which was recently vacated by David O’Connor. While attending Toronto’s Royal Winter Fair in early November, Clayton Fredericks sat down for a chat. 

The little town of Lyme, Conn., has a storied history, dating back to the 1640s. But since 1975, its rather dubious claim to fame has been a nasty tick-borne disease first noted in the area.

A mare comes in from the field one afternoon with an eye that is red, irritated and tearing. Her owners chalk it up to flies and buy a fly mask. While the mask helps keep insects away from her eyes, the mare continues to suffer with painfully puffy, weepy eyes. By the end of the week, they notice that the eye looks cloudy and the mare is reluctant to come out of her stall into the sunlight. Alarmed, they call the veterinarian who concludes the examination with a worrisome diagnosis: uveitis, which is more formally known as periodic ophthalmia, or ERU, for equine recurrent uveitis.

These benign but bothersome tumors are as individual as the array of potential treatments

They’re the most common type of skin tumor in horses, and they’re usually not all that alarming—but although they’re categorized as benign, sarcoids have plenty of troublesome potential.

The thing about sarcoids is, they’re devilishly difficult to defeat. Although they seem to have a common cause—a virus called bovine papilloma, which causes warts in cows—they are masters of disguise, taking any number of different forms and casually defying any kind of easy cure. 

Two Canadian Olympians were among the five finalists who performed their dressage freestyles for an appreciative crowd at the FEI World Cup qualifier at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair on Nov. 13 in Toronto, Ont.

Despite an uncharacteristically explosive Grand Prix test the day before, there was little doubt that Ashley Holzer and Pop Art were going to capture the top honors in the freestyle.

It was good to be Canadian at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, in Toronto, Ont., on Nov. 7-16.

She scores in an early World Cup qualifier for 2009.

Corinne Ashton captured the CIC***-W at Wits End, in Mansfield, Ont., Sept. 25-28, with her long-time partner, Dobbin, a 14-year-old, unraced, chestnut Thoroughbred.

Second to Buck Davidson and My Boy Bobby after the dressage, with a score of 50.9 penalty points to Davidson’s 41.1, Ashton and Dobbin had a flawless cross-country go under rain-soaked skies.

Horses with heel pain benefit from new treatment approaches and specialized shoeing.

For as far back as anyone can recall, a diagnosis of navicular syndrome has been career-ending news for almost any horse.

Chronic, frustrating, and discouraging in the extreme, navicular is—or was—considered an incurable, degenerative condition, brought on by deterioration of the tiny navicular bone, which is tucked up behind the coffin bone in the middle of the foot.

A grassroots petition to make pergolide mesylate available for the treatment of horses with Cushing’s disease proves the squeaky wheel gets the grease.

Controlling nasty, horse-tormenting bugs isn’t just about stinky sprays and oily wipes anymore. It’s a multi-front battle with an array of innovative weapons.

Once upon a time, all we wanted was to see the flies gone. Each summer, as they swarmed, buzzed, bit and tormented our horses, we were willing to do just about anything to get rid of the little pests.