Horse owners and veterinarians worldwide soon will have access to online video Horse Courses presenting the latest developments in horse health topics from some of the foremost individuals in equine research. TheHorse.com, companion Web site to The Horse: Your Guide To Equine Health Care magazine, will be offering monthly University of Kentucky (UK) Diagnostic-Research online Horse Courses. The first in the series of 10 Horse Courses sponsored by Fort Dodge Animal Health will launch March 13. Horse owners and veterinarians can sign up now for any or all of the free Horse Courses by visiting www.TheHorse.com/HorseCourses.

Each hourlong seminar features cutting-edge information from two to four speakers on different aspects of a pertinent horse health topic. While some speakers are from UK, others are practicing veterinarians with valuable hands-on experience and researchers from other states. Until now the seminars, which have been extremely popular among veterinarians and horse professionals in Central Kentucky since their inception in 2006, have only reached a local audience that could attend the seminars in person. Now veterinarians and horse owners anywhere in the world can sign up on TheHorse.com for the online presentations of these seminars.

Dr. David Horohov, William Robert Mills Chair in Equine Immunology and faculty member at the University of Kentucky’s Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center, said, "Unlike a typical research seminar that deals with an overly focused aspect of the problem, or a clinical presentation that emphasizes diagnosis and treatment, we combine each aspect into a singular presentation that in one hour’s time highlights the most important aspects of the particular topic."

Horohov, along with Dr. Craig Carter, director of the university’s Livestock Disease Diagnostic Center, created the original seminar series and selects the speakers for each seminar