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Joint injections puzzle me. I’ve seen them administered to aging sport horses whose hock joints don’t function as fluidly as they once did. I’ve heard trainers order them for show horses who perform chronically “late” lead changes. And I’ve even seen a veterinarian prescribe them for a young horse with a head-scratching lameness just to “see what it would do.”

Done properly, joint injections can be very effective for prolonging horse’s athletic careers.

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Alexandra Beckstett, a native of Houston, Texas, is a lifelong horse owner who has shown successfully on the national hunter/jumper circuit and dabbled in hunter breeding. After graduating from Duke University, she joined Blood-Horse Publications as assistant editor of its book division, Eclipse Press, before joining The Horse. She was the managing editor of The Horse for nearly 14 years and is now editorial director of EquiManagement and My New Horse, sister publications of The Horse.

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