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New UC-Davis Stem Cell Lab Focuses on Horses

New UC-Davis Stem Cell Lab Focuses on Horses

Stem cell injection therapy for injured horses can dramatically cut recovery times and eliminate surgical scar tissue as a complicating factor, doctors at the University of California-Davis believe.

 Wednesday, May 20, 2009

California Implants Microchips in 500 Thoroughbreds

Under a no-cost-to-the-owner, voluntary program approved by the California Horse Racing Board utilizing federal grants, microchips have been implanted in almost 500 Thoroughbreds at Southern California racetracks over the last two months for health, security, and inventory purposes, and there is sufficient funding for another 3,500 horses, or roughly a third of the Thoroughbreds that race in Southern California during any 12-month period.

 Monday, September 11, 2006

Shock Wave Therapy Gets CHRB Examination

The possibility that trainers may be covertly sneaking horses off backstretches for shock wave therapy has raised the concern of the California Horse Racing Board.

 Thursday, February 17, 2005

California Continues to Battle West Nile Virus

California, whose horse population has been hit by West Nile virus harder than any other state in the nation this season, has about one month to go before it can expect a decline in the number of cases.

 Friday, September 03, 2004

Fairplex to Remain Open for Training

Fairplex Park will remain open without interruption as a racing and training center at least through October and possibly year-around under a funding agreement announced Thursday at the monthly meeting of the California Horse Racing Board at Golden Gate Fields.

 Thursday, March 27, 2003