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Check Environment

Posted on by Kelly Allday

STEVE: The environment is paramount to where you put or house your horse or where they’re kept routinely. What I normally do when I put my horse in a stall is I go in and inspect the stall, completely. I … Continue reading

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Check Temperature

Posted on by Kelly Allday

STEVE: A horse’s temperature is right around 100, normal temperature. The acceptable number would be somewhere in the order of about 99 and a half or usually I’ll have horses even run closer to 99 and up to about just … Continue reading

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Physical Check (Looking for Injuries, Swelling, Lameness)

Posted on by Kelly Allday

STEVE: I typically recommend that most owners have a routine to where they can go in and have a way that they look over their entire horse to make sure everything’s perfect before they go use them for day-to-day training, … Continue reading

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Vet Soundness Exam

Posted on by Kelly Allday

STEVE: The vet check can be paramount to the use of the horse and the longevity of the horse because a lot of things that they’re going to find in the process of examining it, and try to uncover potential … Continue reading

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Basic Care & Costs (Daily duties, Financial responsibilities)

Posted on by Kelly Allday

ALEX: Well, I think caring for horse on a daily basis has a lot of responsibilities. When Steve and I did it on the racetrack together, we’d start at 5:00 in the morning. That was a little different scenario than … Continue reading

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No Foot, No Horse

Posted on by Kelly Allday

STEVE: There’s an old saying, it goes back eons. It’s probably the truest thing, maybe the truest statement ever made about a horse. Is that, if you have no foot, you have no horse. What that really all melts down … Continue reading

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