Every Breath Counts: Understanding the Equine Respiratory System

Hello, friends.

Welcome to this week's Ask an Expert episode.

I'm so grateful that Dr. Quetil is with us here tonight to talk about the equine respiratory system.

We were chatting before we got on here and really just agreeing that so many riders and horse owners want to do what's best for their horse.

But oftentimes there are misconceptions or just they don't have all of the information.

And this is one of those conversations that is going to open your world up a bit to help you do even better for your horses.

So I can't wait to get into it.

But first, Dr. Quetil, thank you so much for taking the time to be with us tonight.

Yeah, my pleasure.

Thanks so much for the introduction.

Yeah, I'm very excited.

As I mentioned earlier, Dr. Ivestor, when I told her that I was coming on your podcast, she was jumping and Super excited.

I look forward to the question and so forth.

So you asked me to keep a little bit of my background.

So as you can hear from my accent, I'm originally from France.

I grew up in Normandy.

big region for horse breeding.

And I grew up in it on a small farm where my family was raising racehorses, actually.

So wood mares to go and eventually run on steeplechases and things like that.

So naturally, I encountered many veterinarians that would come over and check out the horses, the wood mares, the foals, etc.

And so, eventually, that was my chosen path.

I went to vet school in France, in Paris, and then I went to do in-private practice north of Paris, a town called Chantilly, which is kind of a big thoroughbred training center.

There's also a big racetrack there.

And I worked there for several years, for six years, actually.

And then I felt that I needed to do something different.