Can nutrition give horses that first-class travel experience?

TRAVEL, whether by road,air, train, or sea, is a routineexperience for most horses intraining. For some, travelmay be limited to relativelyshort journeys by road to race meetingswithin their home country, while otherhorses globetrot around the world…

While transporting horses by road to the local racecourse or by air to another part of the world is now a routine affair, the end result can still be stressful enough to have a detrimental effect on a horse’s health and performance on the racetrack. Catherine Dunnett Bsc, Phd looks at ways nutrition can help the horse have a more comfortable experience.

By Catherine Dunnett Bsc, Phd

First Published (20 October 2010 - Issue Number: 18)

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