Looking after your horse’s heart
Heart disease in horses recently hit the news when Hickstead, a 15-year-old Dutch Warmblood showjumper, suddenly dropped dead after completing in a Grand Prix event in Verona, Italy. The cause of death was later determined to be an aortic rupture.
Like the human heart, the equine heart has four chambers (right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, and left ventricle), with heart