It was a long, twisting road for eight-year-old gelding Wendell Fong, but it’s ending up in the right place: with the retirement he’s earned.
In a Tuesday presentation, Dr. Patty Hogan told trainers that business as usual will lead to racing’s demise – but that they have the power to make change.
Beyond the Wire, the Maryland racehorse retirement program, will host a free program featuring Dr. Patty Hogan about the implications of injuries in racehorses.
Ten years after Barbaro broke down in the Preakness and later succumbed to laminitis, fighting that disease remains a tricky, uncertain undertaking.
Dr. Patty Hogan — best known for saving Smarty Jones’s eye — has had quite a ride blazing a trail in the often male world of equine veterinary medicine.
