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Calendar

September 22–26, 2020: AHA Sport Horse National Championships, Nampa, Idaho. Qualifications waived for 2020.

September 25–27, 2020: AHA Distance Horse National Championships were discontinued.

October 16–19, 2020: Al Khamsa Annual Meeting and Convention, virtual programming and meeting — see pages 6–9.

October 23–31, 2020: AHA US National Championships, Tulsa Expo Square, Tulsa, Oklahoma, with no senior rider division.

The AHA National Convention will be held online this year.

The American Endurance Ride Conference 2021 convention will be held online, originally scheduled for San Antonio in March.

The AHA magazine, Arabian Horse Life, has been discontinued.

Links of Interest

Jenny the Walker, is a lovely Arabian mare in Germany who now takes herself for walks through her hometown, leaving her stable and strolling along greeting passers-by, walking miles, and then returning to her stall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74pLgcb1OE

Frankincense Trees (Boswellia sacra) are becoming critically endangered in their homelands. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ frankincense-resin-is-endangered

A rare Suffolk Punch draft horse filly has been foaled, from the first use of sexed semen. https://www.suffolkhorsesociety.org.uk/news/ first-foal-born-using-sexed-semen/ ***

Horses are just as prone to humans to the bad effects of obesity on overall, foot and reproductive health. Some links of interest: https://nouvelleresearch.com/index.php/articles/14531-overweighthorse-digestive-health-ongoing-lameness https://beva.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1111/(ISSN)2042- 3306.equine-obesity.vi?campaign=dartwol%7C5439614386 https://thehorse.com/155743/choosing-salt-and-mineral-blocks-forhorses/ https://thehorse.com/184937/10-resources-for-feeding-the-easykeeper-on-thehorse-com/ https://thehorse.com/191623/weight-loss-for-hefty-horses/ https://thehorse.com/189304/does-your-horse-need-a-low-starchdiet/

https://thehorse.com/152666/diagnosing-insulin-resistance-qawith-researchers/ https://www.ecirhorse.org The Equine Cushings and Insulin Resistant group website, with resources. ***

Chronic uterine infection or persistent inflammation in the mare may be associated with hyperse- cretion of mucus and disruption of the architecture of the endometrial epithelium. An important new weapon to fight mare infertility. Effect of Intra-Uterine Infusion of Diluted N- Acetylcysteine on Equine Endometrium. https://aaep.org/sites/default/files/issues/proceedings-09proceedingsz9100109000326.pdf

Wean foals at six months, or wait? https://thehorse.com/190606/ wean-foals-at-six-months-or-wait/

Terry Doyle shows his new 2000 mile patch from the AERC. Terry began competing in his 80s, after retirement, riding horses from his family’s long-term breeding program of Doyle Egyptians, based on the three horses Ghadaf, Nusi and Gulida.

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