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Education Event: Nature or Nurture?

Save the date: July, 17th 2025 - the Thoroughbred Breeders' Association (TBA) hosts its equine health educational event, exploring several cutting-edge veterinary research projects.
This all-day event is aimed at anyone with a keen interest in breeding and is open now for booking.

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Optimising Youngstock Growth and Development

Prominent experts from the bloodstock breeding industry headed up another distinguished line up for the 2024 Gerald Leigh Lectures.

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ITBF webinars: Equine Grass Sickness

Equine Grass Sickness (EGS) is a devastating disease with an 80% fatality rate that can occur anywhere in temperate areas of the world where equids are kept.

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Equine Grass Sickness - Free Resources

Grass Sickness is a disease of horses, ponies and donkeys in which there is damage to parts of the nervous system which control involuntary functions, producing the main symptom of gut paralysis.

The Univeristy of Edinburgh and the Equine Grass Sickness Fund have launched FREE resources, and an online CPD course to support the education and awareness of EGS.

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Genetic Considerations
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Genetic considerations when selecting horses for breeding

Dr Victoria Lindsay-McGee gives an introduction to equine genetics, and discusses some considerations relating to health and reproductive physiology in this online presentation kindly supplied by The University of Edinburgh - The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies. The lecture forms part of the Royal Dick's Equine Reproduction course.

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Antimicrobial Resistance: Time for Change
Veterinary

Alles ist gut 2024: Time for Change

Professor Celia Marr discusses antimicrobial stewardship and how the Thoroughbred breeding industry can play its part in safeguarding the efficacy of these hugely important drugs.
Professor Marr also explores the impact of helminths and common veterinary medications on the gut microbiome.

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When Germs Meet Worms
Veterinary

Alles ist gut 2024: When Germs Meet Worms

Dr Laura Peachey, Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Parasitology, University of Bristol, discusses how parasites influence the gut bacteria in young Thoroughbreds at the Thoroughbred Breeders' Association's educational event "Alles ist Gut".

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Alborada Well Foal Study: How the foal's gut bacteria influence long-term health and performance
Veterinary

Alles ist gut 2024: How the foal's gut bacteria influence long-term health and performance

Professor Chris Proudman, Head of the University of Surrey Vet School, discusses findings from his recently published study which points to the potential of a racehorse found by analysing bacteria in a month-old foal’s gut.
Researchers at the University of Surrey analysed 438 faecal samples from 52 foals, who eventually went into training at 27 different stables in Britain and tracked veterinary issues and racecourse performance from birth to the age of three.