9:40 Dr Warwick Bayly

THE HORSE, THE VETERINARY PROFESSION AND EQUESTRIANISM’ FEI MEETING AT WEVA CONGRESS, HYDERABAD, 2011 Morning session, chairman: Dr Colin Roberts: 9:30 Mr Graeme Cooke - Introduction - the horse, the veterinary profession & equestrianism Graeme Cooke graduated from the University of Cambridge Veterinary School prior to working in veterinary practice. He became a senior government policy adviser at the UK Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs with particular expertise in planning, international trade and national strategy. He was a member of a Government panel for Bioterrorism and the UK government lead on equine health. In 2007, he won a scholarship to Cass Business School where he obtained an MBA with First Class honours. He then worked with a FTSE 100 Company leading biotech marketing strategy. He became Director of the FEI Veterinary Department in 2009 coordinating over a 1,000 FEI Veterinary officials. A Lt-Colonel in the reserve military forces, he served actively in Helmand province, Afghanistan in 2009 and was awarded an operational commendation. 9:40 Dr Warwick Bayly - The history of the equine veterinary profession A brief overview of the progression of the practice of veterinary medicine and surgery from that of "craft" to "profession" will be presented. 2011 marks the 250th anniversary of the creation of the first modern veterinarian school in Lyon, France. Prior to 1761, veterinary practice was definitely an art rather than science-based. Much has happened in the last two and a half centuries that has led to the quality of equine practice being regarded as the equivalent of anything available to smaller companion animal species and as good as or better than that offered to human populations in some parts of the world. Warwick Bayly is Washington State University's Provost and Executive Vice President. He previously served as Dean, College of Veterinary Medicine and has a veterinary degree from the University of Melbourne, MS from Ohio State University and PhD from the University of Liege, Belgium. Dr. Bayly is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences. He is a past-president of the World Equine Veterinary Association. He was named Washington Veterinarian of the Year in 2006 and received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Ohio State in 2000. He is a co-author of the well-known textbook, Equine Internal Medicine. His professional interests are: equine exercise science and exercise associated diseases. 10:00 Mr Graeme Cooke - The role of the FEI in equestrian sport (for CV see above) 10:20 Dr. Hasneyn Mirza - The horse in India - past, present and future The fortunes of man have been borne on the back of a horse, at one time one’s life depended on it and now one’s existence depends on it. Exactly when this association with the horse started here is very difficult to say however according to Indian legend, the horse was created a winged animal. Beside its use in war, the horse was important in Indian eyes as an animal of sacrifice. In ancient India the horse was used predominantly for war and transport. The four indigenous breeds of horses in India are the Kathiawari, the Marwari, the Manipuri Ponies and the Zanskar Ponies. Tipu Sultan established stud farms in Ramnagar and Kunigal, there was a stud established in Tirhoot, Bihar in 1769 and the British established a stud in Babugarh in early 1800. Polo was probably the only sport played on horseback in medieval India. The British brought organized horse racing to India and racing was started in Bengal in 1769, in the Madras Presidency in 1774 and in Bombay in 1796. Today the horse is used predominantly for sport, transport and ceremony. The use of the horse in sport today is for racing, polo and equestrian, horse racing being the most popular. Show jumping, dressage, eventing, tent pegging and endurance are controlled by the Equestrian Federation of India there are over 3000 horses registered with them. Polo is controlled by the Indian Polo Association which was formed in 1892, there are 450 polo ponies registered with the IPA. There is some fledgling breeding of the sport horse in India for polo and for show jumping. The future of the horse in the country is relatively secure. Hasneyn Mirza is a practising equine veterinarian based in Bangalore with both racetrack and stud farm practice. After graduating from the Mysore Veterinary College, Bangalore, he joined his family concern of the Kehelan Stud Farm until it closed in 2005. He spent some time with Rossdale and Partners in Newmarket, England. Dr Mirza is a Consultant to the Royal Calcutta Turf Club and an FEI Veterinarian for dressage, show jumping, eventing and endurance. He is the South Zone Steward for the Indian Polo Association and he has served on the Board of Directors of the Bangalore Turf Club. He is a scratch handicap polo player and he has competed in dressage at national level. 11:10 Dr Connie Herholz - Transportation of horses Connie Herholz is set to head the Equine Science Department of the Swiss College of Agriculture in 2012. She had been, for ten years, at the Equine Clinic of the University of Berne. Her PhD thesis was on lung function testing in the horse. She is a specialist in equine medicine and a Diplomate of the European College of Equine Internal Medicine. For eight and a half years, she worked at the Swiss Federal Veterinary Office where she was responsible for international trade and export market strategies. 11:30 Mr Bernard Duvernay - Shoeing the competition horse Nowadays our profession is in no way comparable to that practised 20 years ago. Our knowledge of anatomy, of foot-balance and of pathologies has become so much sharper. The technology of materials used today has moved forward greatly, compared to that of our elders. All these advances are the direct consequence of a much evolved veterinary medicine, producing very precise diagnoses, which benefit from the use of the latest high-tech imaging equipment, in every way comparable to that used in human medicine (digital X-rays, ultrasonography, MRI, scintigraphy, thermography). Consequently, today’s sport equine vets, riders, trainers, owners are much more demanding of the farrier’s work and knowledge. The athlete horse requires very specific foot and shoeing care. It will be shod every 4 to 6 weeks, preferably always by the same farrier. The slightest change in the phalange angle, in the foot balance, a different shoe size or type may really make the horse uncomfortable, even useless for its rider. It is difficult to talk in general terms of typical shoeing by discipline, especially for show-jumpers, eventer or dressage horses. Nowadays, there is one overriding rule to shoeing horses in these three disciplines: excessive shoe length or extension are an aberration for normal, sound feet. Bernard Duvernay has been at the head of a farriery company in Geneva, Switzerland for more than thirty years. Named the ‘Flying Anvil’ by his colleagues, he has been travelling the world as a consultant farrier in famous stables and in development programs. He is a well-known lecturer and organiser of continuing education programs in many countries, visiting the best Thoroughbred stud farms in India regularly for the last twenty years. He was admitted to the farriers’ Hall of fame 2011 in the USA for his contribution to the improvement of the farriery standard in many countries. In 2010, he created the ‘Flying Anvil Foundation’ to help farriery in remote countries where there are no education structures or programmes for the farriery profession. 11:50 Dr Richard Corde - Respiratory disease and the competition horse Treating a coughing horse during competition season may be a challenge with sometimes oppositions between medical requirements and sportive considerations. Improvement in sensibility of dosage techniques for prohibited substances may result in prolongation of detection times and delays for competition. Moreover most of the therapeutic regimens used in management of acute or chronic respiratory inflammation lack of clear data about their pharmacokinetic, particularly with aerosol way of administration. Therefore experience, prevention, and environmental considerations play a major role in management of respiratory disorders in the athletic horse, and most of all in the days before and during sportive events. Richard Corde graduated from the National Veterinary School of Maisons-Alfort (Paris) in 1981. He has been a partner at an equine veterinary clinic in Grosbois, Boissy Saint Leger, France, since 1984. He is Vice President of AVEF (French Equine Veterinary Association), a member of the WEVA president’s advisory group and a member of the FEI List Group. He was WEVA President from 2006-2008 and he is President of the anti-doping commission of the French Equestrian Federation. Afternoon session, chairman Mr Graeme Cooke 13:45 Dr Colin Roberts - The FEI and competition horse welfare: The Atlanta Project and the sport horse in heat and humidity Although the FEI is not a research organisation, it has cooperated with numerous research establishments to support studies that benefit the welfare of performance horses. Important areas of interest have included limb hypersensitisation, NSAIDs, horse transportation, heat and humidity, endurance and working surfaces. Before the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, the FEI led a global research effort looking at the effects on horses of hot, humid conditions. This work quantified the physiological challenges of heat and humidity, determined acclimatisation rates in hot, humid conditions and demonstrated methods for rapid cooling of horses. No horses suffered serious problems due to heat and humidity in the Atlanta Games and the methods devised then are now routinely used in adverse climatic conditions.

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