Over the past two years, two of the horses I have helped place off the track were later diagnosed with overriding dorsal spinous processes (ORDSP) – casually referenced as kissing spines. One was ...

Overriding dorsal spinous processes or “kissing spine” is becoming a more common problem in performance horses. It was previously thought that this problem only occurred in dressage horses, hunters, ...

The vet comes, does x-rays which show a reduced space between vertebrae, and diagnoses the horse with kissing spines. The ...