One of the encouraging developments I read about over the summer was that a product which restores synovial fluid (hyaluronic acid?) for equines was made available to be administered orally.
Tapping and injecting horses\' knees, ankles and hocks is an inhumane stop gap measure. Continuous injections of whatever nature degrade an animal\'s immune system. Once you begin to tap and inject a horse\'s joints, a clock starts ticking; when the clock strikes 12, the animal who has endured numerous invasive procedures is usually crippled and without any real value as a racehorse.
I wish that some of the people who think a jockey flailing away on an animal in the stretch is inhumane could follow a vet on his rounds at any given race track.
