The eighth panel of the OwnerView Virtual Thoroughbred Owner Conference held Oct. 10 featured an equine surgery video and a discussion about the video with surgeon Dr. Larry Bramlage and OwnerView’s project manager, Gary Falter.
The conference was hosted by The Jockey Club and the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association and sponsored by Bessemer Trust, Stoll Keenon Ogden, and The Green Group. This panel was sponsored by Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital.
Attendees were able to ask questions through Zoom’s Q&A feature, sponsored by West Point Thoroughbreds.
The video showed removing a chip from a 3-year-old Thoroughbred colt, starting with the horse entering Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital and ending with his recovery from surgery.
Dr. Bramlage said removing a chip is not the same as most people’s concept of taking a rock out of a shoe. He also explained, “The whole point behind removing the fragment is to stop the reaction of that joint to that fragment of bone. That reaction is what does the long-term damage to the joint.”
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A replay of the panel and all previous panels can be viewed at bit.ly/OVVideos. Two more Thoroughbred Owner Conference virtual panels are scheduled for 2023, with the next session, Foot Care and Equine Dentistry, to be held Nov. 7 at 2 p.m. ET. A full schedule can be found here.
The virtual conference series has no registration fee, but registration is required. For more information about the owner conference, please visit ownerview.com/event/conference or contact Gary Falter at 859-224-2803 or gfalter@jockeyclub.com.
This press release has been edited for content and style by BloodHorse Staff.
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