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It is, and I'd forgotten that qualification. Our orthopaedic specialists are however happy with the accuracy of dosing below that threshold, but draw the line at small ponies. Either way any client being prescribed either Previcox or Equioxx for anything under 450kg should be made very clear...

Rest assured, you're not putting her at risk in any way. It's exactly the same dose of exactly the same drug. However as equine vets (or indeed all vets!) the prescribing cascade dictates that where a licensed form of a drug exists for a species we are legally bound to use that licensed form...

I hadn't realised she was your niece. Congratulations!

So very sad! 😰

Exactly! No one actually knows whether it is 'effective and safe' to use in horses until the testing required as part of the licensing process has been done. Obviously there were vets using firocoxib in horses prior to the equine -licensed version (I was one), but all we had to go on was...

I'm about as pragmatic as they come, but sadly draw the line at breaking the law to save other people money, much as I would like to.

Although some vets are obviously prescribing it, it is actually not legal to do so in the UK. Where a licensed alternative exists (as you have mentioned, Equioxx is a form of firocoxib which is licensed for horses in the UK) vets are legally bound to use the licensed form.

Thoughts and prayers for all the UK staff and horses who are out racing in the Middle East and have found themselves waking up in a no fly warzone today. Particularly Rebel's Romance and Charlie Appleby's staff after their win at Meydan (Dubai) yesterday. Dubai Airport is closed, and there have...

It depends on your tastes. I have just listened to the audiobook of the first one whilst driving. I would say very negligible storyline, probably 75% of the book is graphic description of gay sex between the two main characters. Put it this way - there were not many points in the book where I...

Oh my god. I just started listening to the first book. It's basically just porn!!! 😱

My slightly less polished photos...

The Jojo Moyes book is actually very good. You probably think of her as a non-horse writer (which she mostly is), but she rode as a child at an inner city riding school, bought a horse as a teenager with her paper round money without her parents' knowledge, and has horses again now. Her Desert...

I am also not far away and don't work Fridays. However I have been lucky enough to meet (and pat) him several times in person in racecourse stables, so I'll probably not go as the rest of the meeting isn't of massive interest.

I haven't heard anything

Some pretty classy wins from Mark Walsh over the past few days for his soon-to-be-ex employer...