Although castrations are routine procedures for many equine practitioners, the risk for complications remains. And while most complications are generally mild, some have life-threatening implications.

Researchers and veterinarians constantly seek safer ways to perform common surgical procedures, and the castration of stallions is no exception. In the 1990s, laparoscopic castration, which cuts off ...

She also noted the gelding procedure has a mortality rate of 5 percent. Older stallions are particularly at risk, as shown this summer when a popular 25-year-old Utah stud died after castration. Brian ...

A onetime free-roaming Utah stallion, whose picture sparked an Internet campaign demanding his release, died last week of a heart attack at a BLM holding corral in Delta as a veterinarian was gelding ...

When Funny Cide won one for the geldings in the Kentucky Derby, it ended a 73-year losing streak that was as misleading as it was well-publicized. No gelding had won the Derby since Clyde Van Dusen in ...