As I said at the beginning of this marathon endeavor, I went to the Race Day Medication Summit mostly to learn and without any prior opinions on the use of Lasix. And after nearly nine hours of presentations and panels, I do feel like I learned a lot, but I’m not sure that I’m any…
I really hadn’t planned on dragging this recap out for a week…but we’ve finally reached the last two presentations from last week’s Race Day Medication Summit. Following the trainers’ discussion of managing EPIH, the veterinarians took the stage. Moderated by Dr. Scott Palmer, the panel included Dr. Scott Hay (U.S.); Dr. John McVeigh (SA, U.K.,…
The panel was moderated by John Kimmel, a New York-based trainer with a degree in veterinary medicine from the University of Pennsylvania. Panelists were Christophe Clement (US/France); John Gosden (UK/AUS), Richard Mandella (US); Graham Motion (US); and John Size (HK/AUS). The presentation was organized around questions that Kimmel asked. This isn’t a transcript, but a…
As I wrote in my first post about this Monday summit, I came to it with little prior knowledge about the use of Lasix or about bleeding in horses. Given the length, detail, and number of the presentations, it would be impossible to capture everything that was said; I’m trying to distill what I found…
Doing this in small and, I hope, manageable bites, a presentation or two at a time. Following a morning in which the focus was on the basics of EIPH (exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage) and the effects of furosemide (Lasix/Salix), lunchtime and afternoon sessions were devoted to an exploration of international and North American perspectives on EIPH…
I don’t know a lot about medication in horses. I’m neither a vet, nor a scientist, nor a horsewoman. For these reasons, I haven’t had much of an opinion on race day medications in horses, leaving those decisions to those better informed than I. And for these reasons, I spent the first day of my…
