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Press Release  Carolina Laminitis Symposium

Contact: Julie Capaldi if you are interested in attending or want to know more.

Phone 864-420-1635

Julie@mysaddlefits.com

www.carolinasymposium.org

Carolina Horse Owners Create Symposium to Educate and Repay a Debt

Animal Health Foundation and Laminitis Research to benefit from inaugural event

Pickens, SC, February, 2010:   

Julie Capaldi, Kate Bond and Linda Symborski have owned horses most of their lives.  Laminitis was something that happened to "other people".  All three women experienced the ravages of laminitis. Bond lost her endurance mare in 2006, Symborski's seasoned dressage horse and promising broodmare succumbed to progressive Cushing's disease after recovering from laminitis with the help of her veterinarian and farrier, and Capaldi's beloved Arabian gelding Buddy was diagnosed with laminitis in July, 2009.  They quickly learned that this is a complex, expensive and devastating disease.

Capaldi met Dr. Don Walsh, a veterinarian from St. Louis, MO and founder of the Animal Health Foundation, during her internet search for answers to the many questions that plagued her; why did her horse "founder", what did she do wrong and would he ever recover to usable soundness.  Dr. Walsh's paper, "Laminitis Attack-The First Line of Defense", was her bible. When Capaldi emailed Dr. Walsh to thank him, he was totally accessible, and never tired of the many questions she fired at him mostly in the middle of the night when she worried about Buddy.

Slowly Buddy began to improve as she followed Dr. Walsh's instructions to the letter. To say she was indebted was an understatement.  Capaldi vowed to repay that kindness.

As a professional fundraiser with over 25 year's experience, Capaldi realized there was a way she could help. When she asked Dr. Walsh to articulate his ultimate dream, he said it was to travel around the country in a big bus, educating the horse owner about laminitis.

Although there is no bus (yet), Capaldi enlisted the help of Bond and Symborski and together they created the Carolina Laminitis Symposium to provide the latest research to the horse owner.

The Carolina Laminitis Symposium will be held on May 15, 2010 at the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia, SC.  Dr. Walsh and Katy Watts, a forage researcher funded by the Animal Health Foundation will be the featured presenters.  The program will be modeled after the Animal Health Foundation's "Master class:  Laminitis in the Horse", which was held in St. Louis on November 21, 2009.  The difference is that Dr. Walsh will translate the latest research findings into simple language that the horse owner can understand.

The cost of the symposium is $50 per person which includes a box lunch. .All proceeds from the Carolina Laminitis Symposium will be donated to the Animal Health Foundation to fund vital laminitis research.

For more information or to register, visit http://www.carolinasymposium.org/. You can also register by mail.  Send checks made payable to "Carolina Laminitis Symposium" and mail to Carolina Laminitis Symposium (CLS), 1200 Cherry St. Ext.Pendleton, SC 29670 The symposium is limited to 200 so please register early.