This book contains the latest scientific findings on nutrition and training of racing and sport horses discussed by renowned experts during the Equine NUtrition and TRAining COnference 2009. Furthermore, state of the art reviews are published on the prevention and treatment of gastric ulcers, on the effects of diet and feeding regimens on performance, on the principles and practice of plyometric training for the development of strength and on how not to train sport horses. Finally, expanded abstracts of peer reviewed original research presented during the conference are included. All those...

The determination and management of performance-limitation in sport horses is very challenging, especially within a short time period before an important competition. In this book, experts disclose their experience on: what do we know about the poor performance horse? And on the gastrointestinal tract: medical, nutritional and surgical considerations; could it be the heart? Could it be the muscles? Monitoring orthopaedic health in competition horses; could it be the foot? Could it be neurological? Cases where physiotherapy helped to make a difference; And, could it be respiratory?

This book describes recent developments on equine nutrition and rehabilitation. Experts provide reviews on feeding horses with roughage only and with medicinal plants, as well as insight in the potential importance of monitoring the urine of horses for mycotoxins. Information on the effect of supplementing the diet of horses with dimethylglycine and aleurone complement the nutritive information. Moreover, overviews are given on managing the whole horse instead of the lesioned tissues only and inform on a new tool to monitor the effect of measures taken. In addition, there is very specific...