22/ FEBRUARY 2022 THE RIDER


Great Shows, Great Horses, Great Friends


www.eoqha.com 2022 Executive & Board of Directors


President: Cheryl Norris, 613-608-3608, snappysdevil@aol.com Vice-President: Barb Downer Secretary: Sheryl Chillson Treasurer: Sandra Duhamel Past President: Shawna Crawford


Directors: Doug MacDougall Janey MacDougall Colleen McFadden Debbie Haughton Leanne Karoles


Check out our facebook page Eastern Ontario Quarter Horse Association for more information


Since we didn't get to celebrated our 40th together - The Best is Yet To Come with our 40th 2.0 Celebrations in 2022 ( hope this makes sense. wanted our exhibitors to look forward to something happy since the pandemic with covid19 and not having a show for 2 years)


2022 STALL ORDERING PROCESS Please review there are changes


1. Stalls are RESERVED through the Treasurer and only BOOKED when Treasurer receives payment by the Payment Due Date. ONLY then are forms forwarded to Stall Co-ordinator (a vol- unteer) 2. ALL stalls ordered after Payment Due Date are REQUIRED to pay a LATE FEE COSTS 3. Show Office will NO LONGER be accepting stall payments


4. A stall form MUST be completed for each ex- hibitor’s stall reservation 5. PAYMENT OPTION #1 Forms and payments by etransfer are to


be sent to eoqhatreasurer@gmail.com NO Auto-Deposited Question - What show? PASSWORD - Sizzler


6. PAYMENT OPTION #2 Forms and payments by cheques are to be mailed to: Eastern Ontario Quarter Horse Assoc,


1563 Sandra Crt., Val Caron, Ontario


P3N 1R 7. All cheques are to be made payable to: Eastern Ontario Quarter Horse Assoc. DO NOT USE EOQHA - This is not the


legal name! 8. Shared tack stalls are to be ordered on ONE form with ONE payment - DO NOT SPLIT 9. Stalls will not be considered booked until PAYMENT is received. 10. ALL shavings paid at the Show Office will be $10 per bag


11. If you sell your stall please notify the treasurer so our records can be updated


CANCELLATIONS / REFUND POLICY 1. STALL cancellations received prior to the payment due date of June 1st 2022 will receive refund minus $15 admin fee. 2. STALL cancellations received after payment due date and up to two weeks prior to the show will receive a refund minus 25% admin fee (Hydro & shavings fully refund- able) 3. Cancellations received within 2 weeks of the show will NOT receive a refund unless Vet Certificate is provided


New Equine Fecal Transplant Research


By Jackie Bellamy-Zions for the Equine Guelph Annual Research Update – Volume 19 Fecal transplantation has been very successful in


treating humans with issues such as C-difficile infection, which is also a leading cause of diarrhea in horses. On- tario Veterinary College researcher, Dr. Luis Arroyo and his team are about to begin a study which could make treating gastro-intestinal (GI) issues in horses using fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) a viable option. FMT has been given to horses with diarrhea, but so far, there is little evidence-based medicine to support that FMT is ef- ficient in horses. One challenge is the path to the colon is much longer in a horse, precluding administration by enema for example, and therefore requiring delivery into the stomach via the nose instead. The inoculant needs to survive the trip to its intended destination. Another chal- lenge is the preservation of a product that can be on hand when needed. Amazing progress in genome sequencing has opened


doors to new research tackling GI issues. Arroyo has been involved in studies examining the inhabitants of the equine gut and explains there is still much to learn, but we are starting to develop a clearer picture of how the micro-en- vironments are very different in a diseased gut compared to a normal healthy one. They are recording what types of bacteria live in different areas of the GI system, what proportions of each bacteria should be present, and how they interact.


An altered com- Dr. Luis Arroyo


position of the intes- tinal bacteria is called dysbiosis and it is present in horses with intestinal dis- eases such as colitis and colic. Dysbiosis can also result dur- ing treatments in- volving antibiotics and it can take sev- eral weeks for gut microbiota to come back to normal. “Dysbiosis refers


to changes in the normal


inhabitants


of the gut, and that allows for certain bacteria to overgrow and potentially cause disease,” says Arroyo. For example, if you give a horse too much carbohydrates, a certain type of bacteria will overgrow; produce a lot of lactic acid, and that can result in acidosis and can even cause laminitis. The treatment for horses with dysbiosis from colitis aims to decrease inflammation and resolve diarrhea faster. The 95% success rate of FMT in humans by enema


has not been replicable in horses. With an extraordinary long intestine, the FMT would likely never make it to the desired location of the large colon or cecum via enema. Working on an inoculum that is delivered nasogastrically means creating a product that will survive the trip through the stomach and small intestine with the bacterial contents minimally affected to perform their intended task of re-es- tablishing homeostasis when they reach the gut. What makes transplantation of fecal microbiota a po-


tentially desirable option is the speed with which one could re-introduce normal microflora into the guts of af- fected animals. A standardized process will be required to preserve important bacteria when obtaining, diluting, and mixing samples to be used in the FMT inoculum for the bacteria to survive and be viable. Currently over 80% of the bacteria present in feces die during FMT preparation because of exposure to Oxygen and freezing. Arroyo’s study will work on optimizing bacterial viability using anaerobic conditions and identifying microbiota patterns associated with higher resistance to storage. Using different additives will be one method ex-


plored for preserving the bacteria. Adding a cryo-preser- vative to achieve success during the freezing of the transformation product will also be researched to ensure shelf life. “We want to work on a on a standard inoculum that is repeatable, and we can have on hand, still viable to an animal that needs it,” says Arroyo.


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