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Dear Ignorant Horse Owner...: Spending Money to Feel Good and the Damage This Can Do Main Menu Why Are You Here? What this site hopes to achieve and why YOU need this information About the Magazine: Cutting Horse Chatter Who Are the Consumers? What are the Contents? The Selected Advertisements How Many Are There? How Were They Chosen? Is What These Companies Are Doing Legal? What Strategies Do They Use? Are They Effective? What Does the Science Say? Do These Drugs and Supplements Do All They Say They Do? Get to Know Me What's My Background? How Did I Become Interested in this Topic?

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The Selected Advertisements These are the advertisements that I pulled to take a look at. I was able to get my hands on two copies of Cutting Horse Chatter, the 2016 and 2017 versions and they contained, between the two of them, fifteen advertisements for miscellaneous drugs, supplements, and therapeutic products.
Four common advertising strategies I wanted to look for in these fifteen advertisements are:

Cheerful/successful photos
Product guarantees
Broad slogans
anxiety inducing statements

This table demonstrates the results:

	Cheerful/Successful photos	Product Guarantees	Broad Slogans	Anxiety Inducing Statements
Equilume	X	X	X
StaySTRONG		X	X
Myristol PRO	X		X	X
Adequan		X	X
Ulcer Gard	X		X	X
Ultra Cruz	X	X	X
Back On Track	X	X	X	X
EQCO Coverage	X		X	X
Legend	X		X	X
Zimecterin		X		X
Equi-Bone	X	X	X
Platinum Performance		X	X
Osphos	X		X
Hubbard Life	X		X
Nutrena	X	X	X

As you can see, 11/15 had cheerful and successful photos of horses and riders, 9/15 ads utilized some sort of product guarantee, 14/15 employed broad meaningless slogans, and 6/15 tried to induce anxiety in the consumers.

Based on these ads, I visited some of the homepages of the products that had 3 or more boxes checked to see what they had to say on their websites:
In the above coding scheme, Back On Track equine products was positive for 4/4 categories and not surprisingly, their homepage shows more of the same with successful photos, product guarantees, anxiety inducing statements such as "reduce muscle tension and prevent injury"
UlcerGard in the above table was positive for 3/4 categories and again, their homepage showed much of the same with broad statements, product guarantees, and anxiety inducing statements such as "stomach ulcers can: keep horses from performing their best, cause lasting damage to the stomach lining, and cause death."
UltraCruz was another product that had 3/4 positive categories checked and their website had the same with a successful horse and rider photo, product guarantees in the form of sponsorships, and of course the broad slogan, "choice of champions"
Last but not least, equine legend squeezes in with 3/4 positive categories in their magazine ad, however their website did manage to tone things down a bit with only one anxiety inducing question. Aside from that it was strictly product information.
Finally, Nutrena coming in with another 3/4 categories testing positive. Their website homepage also contained a nice, peaceful photo with a broad slogan.

Now that we've seen just how good the equine pharmaceutical and supplement industry is at pushing their product, we'll take a look at just how much, little, or how damaging these products can be for your horse. Go ahead to the next page to see what the science has to say about the truth behind these products.