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2025 Gerald Leigh Lectures Announced

Save the date: The 2025 Gerald Leigh Lectures' venue and date have been confirmed and will take place in Newmarket on Wednesday 4th June, starting at 9am. Hosted by the Beaufort Cottage Educational Trust, the BCET is a small charity that aims to support educational projects and events for all those involved in the care of horses and disseminate knowledge of the best veterinary and management practices and thereby enhance horse welfare.

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Podcast - Deworming

Podcast with Prof. Jacqui Matthews

Join TB-Ed in a conversation on diagnostic testing of adult stock to guide wormer administration, with Prof. Jacqui Matthews, who is the Director of Veterinary Science at Austin Davis Biologics and a RCVS recognised specialist in parasitology; and the TBA’s Equine Health and Welfare Manager, Victoria Murrell.

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Worming Webinar - Free to view

Delivered by Westgate Labs in collaboration with the Racing Staff Development Programme, this informative and easy-to-follow webinar discusses the challenge of resistance, how we can develop our management to be more environmentally sustainable and improve horse welfare.
The future of parasite control in racehorses is delivered by Kristy Hodgson, Director and SQP at Westgate Labs.

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Worm Workshop Paddock Considerations
Preventative Equine Medicine

Worm Workshop: Ask the Expert Q&A - Paddock Considerations

In the second of our Q&As with recorded at the Thoroughbred Breeders' Association's Worm Workshop in August 2023, a panel of experts answer delegates' questions around the management of paddock

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Worm Workshop QA
Preventative Equine Medicine

Worm Workshop: Ask the Expert Q&A

Recorded at the Thoroughbred Breeders' Association's Worm Workshop in August 2023, our panel of experts answer delegates' questions around faecal worm egg counting.

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Preventative Equine Medicine

Worm Workshop: Anthelmintic Resistance

As a senior lecturer in parasitology at the University of Bristol, Dr Laura Peachy explores anthelmintic resistance and talks through findings from her recent research that was funded by the HBLB,

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FWEC and the Moredun method
Preventative Equine Medicine

Worm Workshop: Faecal Worm Egg Counting and the Moredun Worm Egg Counting Method

Prof Jacqui Matthews discusses the importance of faecal worm egg counting, while equine parasitologist Kathryn Knock shows us a behind-the-scenes demonstration in her laboratory of the Moredun worm

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Preventative Equine Medicine

Worm Workshop: Constructing a Worming and FWEC Sampling Programme

Dr Charles Cooke explores anthelmintic medication (current situation and usage), resistance and environmental measures, the stud farm problem, and what you can do to control worms, understand medic