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This site is the precursor to my literary/scientific text, A Racehorse Herbal.
I am a racing contrarian not only on how to medically treat racehorses, but how they should be trained and raced. This book
will provide a comprehensive study of old timey training/racing methods and remedies as compared to the modern trends found in the horse industry of both the Standardbred and Thoroughbred. It will allow the race
horseman to utilize and integrate common medicinal plants into his everyday regime of keeping his animals fit and racing. He will be able to identify and process ignored weeds into useful and unique remedies. This
text will review modern herbal research as it applies to equine performance injuries and stress but, at the same time, never dismiss the relevance of many cures successfully proven by centuries of past folk usage.
It will, also, review traditional Veterinary equine therapeutics from the past, delve into the herbal teachings of Samuel Thomson (the Thomsonian Medical movement of the 1800s), Cincinnati's Eclectic Movement
of the late 19th century, John Uri Lloyd's 20th century botanical contributions to that movement, and apply all relevant treatments to the modern race horse. The herbal genius of Dr. John Christopher and Dr. Richard
Schulze which are themselves products of the earlier mentioned movements, will be interwoven into this therapeutic tapestry. This site contains excerpts from my text and should provide the reader with the flavor of
A Racehorse Herbal. Publication date projected to be in 2011. May this web site open the eyes of performance horsemen and horsewomen to new thoughts, new treatments, and a better understanding of conditioning
programs. Enjoy, learn, be inspired upon this knowledge, but mostly------ win races. |
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Your author galloping a promising green three year old that has only had a few days on the track at Canterbury Downs in Minnesota. Accordingly,
my irons are set a bit long, the youngster's stable halter is left on under the bridle--just in case she gets loose from me, and I am trying to anticipate a quick shy. So far, so good. . . . . |