Equine health: One swallow makes a runner

• Autores: Gordon J. Baker
• Localización: Veterinary Record, ISSN-e 2042-7670, Vol. 176, Nº. 9, 2015, págs. 235-236
• Idioma: inglés
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  • I WRITE to comment on the editorial ‘Palatal dysfunction in horses: where next?’ (VR, January 3, 2015, vol 176, pp 17-18) as well as the recent letter by Robert Cook (VR, February 14, 2015, vol 176, p 180) on thoughts concerning palatal dysfunction (PD) in horses.

    I have some experience of this (these) ‘problem(s)’ and with the various modalities that have been used and recommended for their diagnosis and for surgical and other methods of management – both with success and with failure, as we all have! Watching current racing on television, I constantly hear that horses have had ‘wind operations’. What were the diagnoses and what were the treatments? In a lot of racing in the USA my observations are that 60 per cent or more of horses race with a tongue tie; in the UK it is less than 20 per cent. Do we have different racing stock?