“The last barn I was at insisted that I routinely have my horse’s hocks injected. Is that part of your “maintenance” routine?”

No; horses that are trained and developed correctly don’t usually need them. I totally agree with the studies that have found the best cure is a preventative one. A person’s money can be more wisely spent by finding a trainer that can progress a horse properly so the need of injections doesn’t arise instead of trying every new cure on the market to “patch” a horse up.

I’m certainly not saying that there aren’t cases where some intervention may be necessary but we rarely have them ourselves. We’ve had horses brought to us that were deemed lame and were only usable because of their routine injections but are now drug free and sound. We are not trying to replace the …