Editor's note This issue leans practical. Most of what came through the peer-reviewed pipeline over the last two weeks lands on the same question: when do you reach for a test, a tool, or a treatment, and what does it actually buy you? A grazing muzzle that
Editor's note A thread runs through this fortnight's papers: how much of what happens to your horse's body and behaviour traces back to time out of the stall. A Latin-square trial nails down a minimum useful dose of turnout. A UK broodmare cohort
Editor's note A thread runs through this issue: the gap between what we can see at first glance and what is actually going on. New field data on SGLT2 diabetes drugs for insulin-dysregulated horses shows most respond, but a meaningful minority do not, and a smaller group
A plain-English review of the equine nutrition research, sorted by what works, where the studies are genuinely mixed, and where the trials have been done and the product flopped. Written for owners deciding what to feed and what to stop paying for.
A plain-English guide to laminitis, navicular, shoeing, supplements, and the rest of the foot problems horse owners actually face. Built from 827 peer-reviewed papers indexed between 2006 and 2026, with the answers the research actually gives.
A research-grounded reading of what tack does to horses, what the marketing claims, and where the two part company.
A plain-English read of recent peer-reviewed research on routine vaccines, faecal-egg-count-based deworming, strangles control, antibiotic use, and biosecurity for boarding barns. What works, what does not, and where the science is still thin.
A peer-reviewed guide for owners deciding how to breed a mare, how to manage pregnancy and foaling, and how to give a newborn foal the best statistical chance. Genetic panel testing, passive transfer screening, and screening-led pneumonia management have the strongest evidence; assisted reproduction
Your horse comes in lame and your vet starts listing options. Stem cells. PRP. Shockwave. Water treadmill. PEMF blanket. Some of these have decades of research behind them. Some have almost none. This guide walks through what studies actually show at each step, so you know which spending decisions a
A plain-language read of the metabolic and endocrine research, written for owners. What's solid, what's promising, what's been quietly debunked, and what to actually do about it.
A plain-English read of equine welfare science, sorted by what studies back up, what stays mixed, and what research has actually contradicted. Pain checklists, stress hormones, social housing, and ridden tack have firm verdicts; stereotypies and turnout sit in the mixed pile; the "copying" claim and
A research-led guide for sport horse owners. Aggressive cold-water cooling and HRV trend monitoring have strong evidence behind them. Vibration plates do not. Most recovery aids sit in absence-of-evidence territory. Here is what the science actually says, and what to do at the barn.