>>>> A vet from Sweden put forth the information that spavin is three times >>>> more common in Icelandic Horses than in other horse breeds.
>>OK, now that's interesting. You don't happen to know the name of the vet involved, do you? I would have to try to find it; the information came from a printed article (maybe Eidfaxi?); I don't remember where it is, and not sure that it said the vet's name. I would suspect it's one of these guys: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=9787497 http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1831549 http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1740-8261.1999.tb00353.x http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T9B-3YNY75P-7&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=9e8e207cd1787da3d24df5077dd60e8a Judy http://icehorses.net http://clickryder.com
