Horse Research: Anything New?

Would Tovar's thesis, last post, apply to horses? RR googles "equine bone remodelling" and gets: nothing. Well, slightly incorrect. There are a couple of useful tidbits there from UC Cal Davis that will use later. Yet, multiple high exposure catastrophic break downs and near breakdowns (Rags to Riches/Belmont, War Pass/Wood Memorial), equine bone research, basically zip, nada. How are they faring at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Dr. Antonio Cruz with their Woodbine cannon bone study of 2 and 3 year old racers that I'd noted a couple of years back. Scrolling through Dr. Cruz's website at the Veterinary College, nothing of note there, nothing written, nothing googles with respect to it, and fearing good intentions with this study may have gone awry. Three years back, and we should have heard the results, if there were any.

Will now google Grayson Jockety Club. Anything new there? They appear to be studying worms and equine uterus. Oooops. There's McIlwraith with a fetlock study speculating condylar fractures caused by mishaped joints.

Gluck: they are studying worms too. Oh, and there's one "equine musculoskeltal science" where they're into joint cartilage and osteoarthiritis. That's it.

Can we suppose if there were a major on-going study anywhere that Ray Paulick would blood hound it by now. The problem, of course, there's very few people out there giving much thought to the basic science of equine breakdowns. Veterinarians, let's face it, they're dealing with "procedures". Because you are good at fracture repair--see Larry Bramalage--does it therefore follow that you've given any deep thought to fracture causation, or even if you did think about it that, being a non-athlete, that you'd have any real understanding? Let's give ongoing credit to what's going on at Turfway Park and with Bryce Peckham D.V.M. I know Peckam and I'll be interested in his reaction if he sees Stardom Bound trained by Dutrow walking over from the backstretch in the 2009 Derby. Otherewise, strangely,in this perspective, useful equine science I've seen posted lately appears here:

http://www.horsetrainingscience.blogspot.com/

So, with respect to "equine cannon bone remodeling", looks as if we'll have to again come up with our own speculations aided by what can be found in free human studies. I'll launch into this next post.

Training:
Sun. 2/15: each horse walk-trotted with a few hops for a mile over half frozen pasture. First tack work in 8 days due to weather.