Weaning is a delicate process that must be handled with car dott.ssa Emanuela ValleDip. Scienze Veterinarie – Università di TorinoEBVS® European Specialist in Veterinary and Comparative Nutrition Generally, around the sixth month of life the foal is weaned off and he is then separated from his mother and begins his own life journey. During the…
Do we know how and how much our horse drinks? Dott.ssa Emanuela Valle – Dip. Scienze Veterinarie, Università di Torino EBVS® European Specialist in Veterinary and Comparative Nutrition There are 420 litres of liquid in the body of a horse weighing 600 kg, including metabolic water, intra and extra cellular, the water from the plasmatic…
LUCA PAPARELLI and SUSANNA COTTICA Passion and know-how are at the base of the modern ‘project’ of the sports horse. Passion and know-how are imperative in each single phase of the growth of the horse as an athlete: breeding, training, horses and foals’ management, all the way to the start of their competition career. Passion…
The Equine Ethics and Wellbeing Commission (equinewellbeing.fei.org) was created by the FEI in June 2022. The purpose of the Commission’s work is to consider issues of public and equestrian concern, that may affect ongoing social acceptance of the involvement of horses in sport. Specifically, the Commission was tasked with providing independent advice and recommendations to…
A true legend, that’s how Peder Fredricson described H&M All In, who ended his sporting career with a farewell ceremony from competitions last February in Gothenburg. Thus ends the All In era. How beautiful to see horses retire from competitions when the time has come to end their careers in style, perhaps still in shape…
“What I seek is pure freedom. I want all horses, all animals, to be able to choose what they want to do, with no constraint: truly free.” SANTI SERRACAMPS “Horses must be happy. This, for me, is the most important thing. I love seeing my horses free in the show arenas. At home, I play…
A STELLAR CAREER THE HISTORY OF VERDI TN, A TEN-YEAR CAREER AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL AND WINNINGS OF OVER €2,880,000 Verdi TN is a great champion who went into retirement last February at the age of eighteen after competing for over a decade. His career as a leader in the field spanned more than ten…
