As grass grows in summer and autumn, vets see more cases of horses and ponies with laminitis ... or to look for insulin resistance or equine metabolic syndrome. Vets often see a rise in cases ...

When one of my client’s nine-year-old Welsh gelding developed laminitis in December 2021, blood work confirmed equine metabolic syndrome. Kye’s resting blood insulin level was 63.9mIU/L ...