Overshadowing: a silver lining to a dark cloud in horse training.

Quarterly Retrospect

ness or imperfectness of several of the most important crops, the dearness of food, the disturbances in the labour market, and the suffei*ings in several localities arising from this source, altogether would have formed a sad and depressing picture, from which little consolation could have been obtained. When, however, we turn from the vague ideas formed from general observatio n to the precise...

Incidence of Mutation for Silver Coat Color in Black Forest Horses

Black Forest horses are typically chestnut colored with flaxen mane and tail. However, as their coat color can get very dark, they are sometimes also indicated as silver, a color depending on a black base color. To analyse if the silver allele is present in the Black Forest horse population, we genotyped 250 horses of this breed for formerly reported coat color mutations within MC1R and SILV. A...

The application of learning theory in horse training

The millennia-old practices of horse training markedly predate and thus were isolated from the midtwentieth century revelation of animal learning processes. From this standpoint, the progress made in the application and understanding of learning theory in horse training is reviewed including a discussion of how learning processes are employed or otherwise under-utilised in training. This review...

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Silver lining in the dark cloud of aneurysm disease.

An ascending aortic aneurysm is a common and very much unwelcome diagnosis that has never been associated with anything positive. We believe, however, that there actually is a silver lining to this disease: aortic root and ascending aortic aneurysms actually protect against atherosclerosis. We have found that patients with ascending aneurysms have both decreased arterial calcification and carot...