Horse Racing Health and Veterinary useful terms
These are some conditions and health problems horses might face:
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- Bleeder: a horse that suffers from lungs bleeding, caused by a rupture of a blood vessel
- Bowed Tendon: a tendon strain type of injury that occurs when the sheath enclosing the tendon from the knee to the joint between the cannon bone and the pastern (fetlock joint), is ruptured.
- Breakdown: a fatal horse injury that can potentially means ending of its racing career.
- Bucked Shins: Shin inflammation that effect mostly young horses, usually their front legs, and can be treated by pin-fringing.
- Bute: Phenylbutazone , a pain reducer anesthetic for horses, usually legal in many horse races.
- Laminitis: when the soft tissue of the foot inside the hoof wall, is inflamed.
- Furosemide: also known as Lasix; a medication for bleeders in order to reduce pressure on the blood vessel.
- quarter crack: a hoof wall crack
- Rundown bandages: bandages that are usually used on the hind legs of the horse, with a pad that is placed beneath the fetlock, in order to prevent the heels from scraping during a race.
- washy: extreme sweating of a horse, that might occur before a race, when a horse is very nervous.
