Warwickshire College Student Wins Prestigious Equine Award

Warwickshire College student, Laura Corbin, was named the winner of the Royal Agricultural Society of England’s  (RASE) “Eqvalan Duo Equine Thesis of the Year Award”. (The award is sponsored by Merial, manufacturers of the Eqvalan equine wormer.)

On Friday, before a panel of academic and horse industry authorities, Laura presented her research on riding school horses and described how she developed an objective system to evaluate foot balance.  You can listen to a podcast of an interview with Laura on the RASE website.

She found that horses with chronic foot conditions often had poor scores for foot balance and proposed that maintaining good foot balance could reduce lameness and provide long term economic benefits. Please click here to read more about Laura’s research. Laura is currently undertaking a studentship with the Roslin Institute and is at the University of Edinburgh in preparation for her PhD.

Her winning thesis “Foot Balance and Lameness in Riding School Horses”, was selected from research theses submitted by universities and colleges in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Laura competed against four other finalists in a presentation of her study which the judges described as “fascinating and extremely useful information for the industry”.

Way to go Laura and all the best from the staff at the LRC!

posted by Brooke