Byron Rogers
Inbreeding in Thoroughbreds....a tension between two coefficients
I woke up this morning to a tweet from Henry Field's Newgate Farm in Australia, outlining the success of Extremely Lucky in the Lightning...
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Byron Rogers
- Jul 12
- 1 min
Aine Ryan joins Performance Genetics as European Representative.
Performance Genetics is delighted to announce the addition of Aine Ryan as the European Representative for the company. Aine is a...
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Byron Rogers
- May 22, 2020
- 9 min
THE COMMERCE OF GENETICS
There’s an underlying and unavoidable truth to the Thoroughbred Industry. We have tied a considerable amount of economic output, or...
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Byron Rogers
- Mar 6, 2020
- 5 min
Comedians, Death and racehorse selection
Predicting racehorse outcomes revolves around specialization of the data in order for data science to do its work.
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Byron Rogers
- Feb 3, 2020
- 7 min
Video Recognition and Cardiovascular parameters in prediction of Thoroughbred Racehorses
Using Google's AutoML Video recognition to learn what the cardio of an elite thoroughbred racehorse is
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Byron Rogers
- Feb 3, 2020
- 8 min
Stallions, the Sexy Son and Selection
How we value stallions generally comes down to not only how quickly they sire stakes winners, but also how quickly they sire a superior son
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Byron Rogers
- Feb 7, 2019
- 1 min
The Science of Pedigree Analysis
I had the opportunity to write a short article on the science behind pedigree analysis for the Australian publication BlueBloods. If you...
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Byron Rogers
- Sep 3, 2018
- 6 min
Mitochondrial DNA haplotypes and mating outcomes
A few years ago I did a lot of work on mitochondrial DNA. This is the DNA that is inherited matrilineally - that is - the female passes...
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Byron Rogers
- Jun 29, 2018
- 1 min
How to rate stallions - Elite above Expectation
For some time, probably as long as I have been in this industry I have thought that the metrics that the industry uses to measure...
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Byron Rogers
- May 19, 2018
- 3 min
Markerless biomechanics in yearling racehorse selection - stage 1.
In addition to creating a deep learning neural network to understand what a 'good cardio' looks like I stumbled across a neat bit of work...
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Byron Rogers
- May 15, 2018
- 11 min
A.I. and Racehorses: Can you teach a computer to understand what a 'good cardio' looks like
Creating a convoluted neural network that when combined with biomechanical features and DNA markers results in a state of the art prediction
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Byron Rogers
- Apr 24, 2018
- 4 min
How inbreeding affects racing performance in Thoroughbreds
How does inbreeding affect racing performance in Thoroughbred racehorses. A study of 135,000 horses is completed to find out
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Byron Rogers
- May 6, 2017
- 2 min
A Kentucky Oaks winner! Congrats to client Clearsky Farm.
The Kentucky Oaks (Gr.I) has been run and won by the Clearsky Farm bred filly Abel Tasman. A daughter of the high class stallion Quality...
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Byron Rogers
- May 4, 2017
- 2 min
A New Paper on the PPARGC1a Gene
Along with Daniel Polasik and his colleagues from the West Pomeranian University of Technology in Poland, I was a co-author on a paper on...
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Byron Rogers
- Mar 7, 2017
- 3 min
Announcing BreezeUpIQ.com
Today I am pleased to announce the launch of BreezeUpIQ.com This project is the culmination of years of work, gathering data at major two...
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Byron Rogers
- Mar 5, 2017
- 2 min
Assortative Matings and Sire Production Class
I've been working on some new data models for the yearling sales season. The goal being that if the average sale has 3% Elite racehorses...
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Byron Rogers
- Feb 11, 2017
- 3 min
Three Group Winners in a week for Performance Genetics Clients!
It has been a week in racing that were sure to remember for some time with three highly rated yearling purchases all winning group races...
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Byron Rogers
- Dec 21, 2016
- 4 min
MtDNA and Stud Book Errors - an interesting find.
The mitochondrial haplotype of thoroughbred racehorses often disagree with stud book records. Thoroughbred performance may depend on the mit
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Byron Rogers
- Nov 15, 2016
- 8 min
An Analysis of Leading Hong Kong Trainer John Size's training methods
An Analysis of the training methods of John Size, a leading racehorse trainer in Hong Kong.
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Byron Rogers
- Sep 6, 2016
- 3 min
The Sales Orphan
Craig Bernick, the President of Glen Hill Farm, a racing & breeding business based in Ocala, Florida penned a timely tweet on the eve of...
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