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Racehorse welfare across a training season [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2023 Racehorse welfare is gaining increasing public attention, however scientific evidence in this area is lacking. In order to develop a better understanding of racehorse welfare, it must be measured and monitored. This is the first study to assess racehorse
Jo Hockenhull +2 more
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Living the ‘Best Life’ or ‘One Size Fits All’—Stakeholder Perceptions of Racehorse Welfare [PDF]
Animals, 2019 The purpose of the study was to explore the perceptions held by British racing industry stakeholders of factors influencing racehorse welfare. Ten focus groups were held across the UK with a total of 42 stakeholders from a range of roles within racehorse
Mathilde Valenchon +2 more
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Animals, 2023 We validated a Thoroughbred racehorse welfare index, developed initially from expert opinion, by relating it to horse behaviour recorded in a range of training stables and surveying trainers to investigate the environment and management systems for ...
Clive J C Phillips
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Stakeholder Perceptions of the Challenges to Racehorse Welfare [PDF]
Animals, 2019 The purpose of this paper is to highlight some of the key challenges to racehorse welfare as perceived by racing industry stakeholders. The paper draws upon statements and transcripts from 10 focus group discussions with 42 participants who were taking ...
Mathilde Valenchon +2 more
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Does sex of the jockey influence racehorse physiology and performance.
PLoS ONE, 2022 The racing industry is supported by a predominance of female stablehands and work riders, but few become professional jockeys. Female jockeys have recently had notable race success.
Charlotte Schrurs +3 more
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National genomic evaluation of Korean thoroughbreds through indirect racing phenotype [PDF]
Animal Bioscience, 2022 Objective Thoroughbred horses have been bred exclusively for racing in England for a long time. Additionally, because horse racing is a global sport, a healthy leisure activity for ordinary citizens, and a high-value business, systematic racehorse ...
Jinwoo Lee, Donghyun Shin, Heebal Kim
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Racehorses are getting faster [PDF]
Biology Letters, 2015 Abstract Previous studies have concluded that thoroughbred racehorse speed is improving very slowly, if at all, despite heritable variation for performance and putatively intensive selective breeding. This has led to the suggestion that racehorses have reached a selection limit.
Sharman, P, Wilson, Alastair J.
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Animals, 2023 The aim of this study was to evaluate the sprint racing performance of Quarter Horses in Brazil. Estimating genetic parameters, trends and correlations were obtained by single- and two-trait analyses using Bayesian inference (earnings to 2 years of ...
Ricardo Faria +2 more
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A Scoping Review of Non-Structural Airway Disease as a Cause of Poor Performance in Racehorses
Animals, 2023 The association between poor performance and respiratory disease in Thoroughbred racehorses that do not have a structural abnormality of the respiratory tract, is often based on anecdotal evidence.
Ann Cullinane +4 more
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Animals, 2023 The reason for undertaking this study was to investigate soft tissue response to high-intensity laser therapy (HILT) by measuring changes in skin surface temperature and longissimus dorsi muscle tone in the thoracolumbar back area in Thoroughbreds with ...
Paulina Zielińska +3 more
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