{"id":5204,"date":"2011-10-01T08:44:19","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T01:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=5204"},"modified":"2011-10-01T08:44:19","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T01:44:19","slug":"veterinarians-safeguard-horses-health-at-prestigious-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/veterinarians-safeguard-horses-health-at-prestigious-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterinarians safeguard horses health at prestigious ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Much as we might be inclined to anthropomorphize horses \u2013 Mr. Ed, anyone? \u2013 much as we&#8217;d like to put faith in rugged-as-Robert Redford &#8220;horse whisperers&#8221; to intuit deep meaning from every neigh or nod, the sad fact is that even the elite equine athletes in the Tevis Cup 100-Mile Trail Ride are sorely lacking in one important area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;They don&#8217;t talk,&#8221; said Garrett Ford, last year&#8217;s winner of the Haggin Cup, awarded to the top-10 finisher in the Tevis whose horse was judged as best conditioned. &#8220;That, obviously, is the challenge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Oh, but think how much easier caring for and racing endurance horses would be if a common interspecies language were indeed possible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">They could tell riders and race veterinarians when, and exactly where, they are hurting.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2011\/09\/29\/3945848\/horses-health-is-primary-concern.html#ixzz1ZUSdSLOH\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much as we might be inclined to anthropomorphize horses \u2013 Mr. Ed, anyone? \u2013 much as we&#8217;d like to put faith in rugged-as-Robert Redford &#8220;horse whisperers&#8221; to intuit deep meaning from every neigh or nod, the sad fact is that even the elite equine athletes in the Tevis Cup 100-Mile Trail Ride are sorely lacking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry","category-veterinary-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5206,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204\/revisions\/5206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}