Dear Dr. Vittoria: My horse had a hoof abscess for over a week before it finally broke out. How long do you soak them before getting concerned? – Anonymous Dear Anonymous: Hoof abscesses usually form ...

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Belmont favorite Classic Empire will not race Saturday.The Preakness runner-up was pulled from the third leg of the Triple Crown Wednesday morning due to an abscess in his right front hoof.Trainer ...

ELMONT, N.Y. -- Classic Empire, who would have been the favorite in the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, is out of the race owing to an abscess in his right front hoof, trainer Mark Casse said Wednesday at ...

Barbaro, the Kentucky Derby winner, suffered a significant setback in his recovery this weekend, undergoing surgery to treat a "deep subsolar abscess" that had developed in the heel of his right hoof.

The favorite for the Belmont Stakes race on Saturday, Classic Empire, has had to pull out after an abscess was found in his right front hoof. Trainer Mark Casse says the pocket that was discovered ...

An abscess on the left front hoof forced City by Night out of today's Kentucky Derby, reducing the field to 19, the number that ran last year. "He is tender on it, and he is going to be fine in a day ...