We can reassure them that by putting money into treatment the foals will go on to perform like the average population. She is currently undertaking a similar project with four other veterinary hospitals looking at adult racehorses with lung abscesses. Ainsworth presented at the World Equine Airways Symposium convened by the Comparative Respiratory Society in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, this summer suggest that the earnings of these horses are not different after illness than they were before. Ainsworth smiles easily as she talks about how she enjoys clinical and basic research equally, particularly because the projects she chooses involve working with a fair number of students. Her treadmill studies require six people just to run each experiment.
Students also exercise and bathe the horses involved.
I'm very lucky to have Cornell students because they are really smart and really driven. Watching them blossom is what makes this job so satisfying. She takes similar pleasure in the changes she sees in students during their large-animal medicine clinical rotation. It's very rewarding to see those who come in not feeling very comfortable working around horses and cows become adept in just three weeks' time. Ainsworth herself has always loved horses.