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& L Online News Special Panel on Racehorse Shoeing and Injuries to Convene at Saratoga The topic is the controversial toe grabs on racing plates A special panel addressing the relationship between toe grabs on aluminum raceplates and the incidence of injuries in racing Thoroughbreds will be held Tuesday, August 11, 1998 at 11:00 a.m. in the Hall of Fame Room of the National Museum of Racing in Saratoga Springs, New York. The Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation, which helped to fund a University of California-Davis study on toe grabs, is hosting the event, which is FREE and open to the public. Panelists will include Dr. Albert Kane, a veterinarian and co-author with Dr. Susan Stover on the UC-Davis report; Bennett Liebman, member of the New York State Racing and Wagering Board; Dr. Ted Hill, The Jockey Club Steward for the New York Racing Association; Dr. John Fisher, a veterinarian and trainer; and Dr. Gary Lavin, a well-known equine practitioner from Kentucky. “We understand that advances in scientific knowledge are only useful if they are applied, and to be applied they have to stand up to strong scrutiny in both scientific and lay circles,” said Edward L. Bowen, president of the Grayson Foundation. “This project has received considerable visibility in the scientific and trade media. We intend to invite horsemen with opposing viewpoints on the subject.” In other horseshoeing-related news, a new three-year study at the Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center in Leesburg, Virginia, conducted by Drs. Nathaniel White, professor of equine surgery at the Center, and G. Frederick Fregin, the Center’s director will study the different types of racing and training injuries sustained by racehorses at Colonial Downs in Virginia. During the first year of the project, the researchers will use risk-factor analysis to understand and identify causes of injuries, based on a survey of information collected from trainers and veterinarians. In the following two years, information about horses with and without injuries will be used to see if injuries are associated with factors such as toe grabs, training techniques or equine conformation. The annual cost of injuries to racehorses—in the form of lost training fees, purses, sales of agricultural products, the cost of replacement horses and veterinary care—is $1 billion, according to White's estimate. Detailed information about equine research related to the horse's foot and lameness, plus practical articles and papers for professional farriers and veterinarians working on racing and performance horses is published in the horse industry's specialist journal, Hoofcare & Lameness, The Journal of Equine Foot Science. Subscription information can be found at the end of this message. What can you do? Hoofcare & Lameness will post information related to the Saratoga event on the journal's web site, located on the Internet at http://www.hoofcare.com. Any Hoofcare Online readers who have comments or suggestions for questions for the meeting but who cannot attend can send email to Hoofcare & Lameness. Fran Jurga will be compiling comments for the meeting, and is eager to hear from anyone with experience in this area, or who would just like to voice an opinion! Please let us hear from you! Note: if you were sent this message in error or would prefer not to receive messages from Hoofcare & Lameness in the future, please accept my apology and just send an email to request that your name be dropped from the Hoofcare Online list. Thanks! All the best, Fran Jurga, Publisher Hoofcare & Lameness: The Journal of Equine Foot
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