Racing, veterinary focus for British equine forum

The focus of Britain’s National Equine Forum inwards March volition move on racing together with veterinarian issues.

The forum volition move held on March 5.

Richard Lancaster, chairman of the Thoroughbred Breeders Association, together with Dr Richard Newton, caput of epidemiology together with illness surveillance at the Animal Health Trust, volition move examining the ways inwards which the equestrian manufacture together with regime are working together on the command of equine infectious diseases.

To add together political perspective, the Secretary of State for Environment, Food together with Rural Affairs, Owen Paterson, volition move on mitt to furnish the department’s electrical flow persuasion of aspects of the equestrian industry.

Pieter Brama, professor of veterinarian surgical physical care for at the University College Dublin, volition acquaint a newspaper on whether horses are laid to race every bit two-year-olds.

Malcolm Morley, chair of the equine pre-purchase exam committee, volition utter over what the recent pre-purchase exam changes hateful for the Equus caballus owner.

Mark Hillyer, of the Newmarket Equine Hospital, volition move sharing his noesis on electrical flow colic treatments together with success rates, spell Professor Pat Harris, who heads the Waltham Equine Studies group, volition expect at the good, the bad together with the ugly effects of grass inwards Equus caballus husbandry.

This year’s programme also includes:

• A expect at the benefits every bit good every bit the trials together with tribulations involved alongside encouraging volunteers (Ed Bracher).
• Scientific show underpinning the therapeutic advantages of riding (Dr Patricia Pendry).
• Riding therapy inwards exercise (Jennifer Dixon-Clegg).
• The effects of hippotherapy on disabled children’s joints (Sarah Rainford, the BHS sponsored Eqvalan Duo thesis winner).
• An overview of the London Olympics (Hugh Robertson MP).
• What it took to instruct to London 2012 together with plans for the futurity (Natasha Baker, Paralympic Double Gold Medallist).
• The implications of cancelling a major lawsuit (Hugh Thomas).

The National Equine Forum is a non-partisan lawsuit together with the alone 1 of its variety to move held inwards Britain. Each twelvemonth it brings together all sectors of the UK’s equestrian manufacture to psyche to together with fence the latest equestrian news, views together with research, together with and thus mingle together with network alongside the movers together with shakers of the manufacture over lunch.

It is held inwards the amphitheatre manner lecture room at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, only off Parliament Square inwards London.

 

Tickets are available to equestrian merchandise delegates together with equestrian professionals at £100 a person, including tiffin together with refreshments. To apply delight contact the Hon Secretary, Mrs Tracy Allen, at Warwickshire College, Moreton Morrell, Warwick, CV35 9BL e-mail teallen@warkscol.ac.uk .  

NEF programme (PDF)

 

 

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