MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY

Since 1999, Michigan State University and CANTER have made a joint commitment to help Michigan's injured Thoroughbred racehorses. Retiring horses owned by the CANTER program frequently receive arthroscopic surgery to remove bone fragments from joints or to repair fractures, enabling them to prove that racing is just one phase in their young lives. Funded by grants and private donations, the injured or ill horses have available to them the full diagnostic resources and surgical services of the Large Animal Hospital and have been evaluated and/or treated for a variety of ailments including pleuritis, neurological problems, colic and colic surgery, and castrations.