What Happens to a Racehorse After the Track? This Event Is Building the Answer.
The 14-year-old Pennsylvania-bred gelding, a former racehorse turned National Barrel Horse Association champion walked into the Jane and Stephen Hale Indoor Arena at Virginia Tech’s Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center in Leesburg, Virginia recently, and demonstrated something with more clarity than any presentation could: a thoroughbred’s racing history is a starting point for evaluation, not a ceiling on what comes next.
Researchers issue ‘call to action’ for data on more diverse range of dog owners
Virginia Tech’s Audrey Ruple and Courtney Sexton, already deeply involved in data collection and analysis for dog health and connections to humans through the Dog Aging Project, are imploring fellow scientists to cast the net even wider for data on the shared environments of humans and dogs in a perspective piece that appears this month in the journal Science.