Byron Rogers
How much does EPO improve performance in Racehorses?
A new study on human distance runners and their response to EPO has shown that four weeks of every-other-day injections improves...
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Byron Rogers
- Apr 12, 2013
- 1 min
Racing Thoroughbreds at Two and Career Soundness
Yet another study, this one on 160,000 racehorses over a 10 year period in Australia, has refuted the claim that racing two-year-olds is...
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Byron Rogers
- Apr 8, 2013
- 2 min
Australian Racing Board investigates Hypoxic Training
The Australian Racing Board has seen fit to release a statement regarding hypoxic training in Thoroughbreds. Training in hypoxia is...
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Byron Rogers
- Mar 27, 2013
- 2 min
Exercising Hungry Racehorses?
A new study in the European Journal of Applied Physiology has outlined the benefits of exercising at low glycogen levels with cyclists....
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Byron Rogers
- Dec 28, 2012
- 1 min
Reliability of ultrasound-measured muscle thickness of the longissimus dorsi muscle in Thoroughbreds
We have co-authored a paper with Dr Takashi Abe and Dr Charles Kearns in the Journal of Comparative Exercise Physiology. A link to the...
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Byron Rogers
- Nov 29, 2012
- 1 min
Fat-Free Mass and Performance
Fat-Free mass is one of the tests in our Sales Select test that we use to identify elite thoroughbred talent. Basically our findings have...
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Byron Rogers
- Oct 11, 2012
- 12 min
Interesting Papers from ISAG
There were a couple of really interesting abstracts from the ISAG (International Society of Animal Genetics) meeting in Cairns Australia...
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Byron Rogers
- Sep 27, 2012
- 2 min
Early exercise for racetrack success? Not so fast
A while ago we commented on a study out of New Zealand from the team headed by Dr CW Rogers (no relation to the author here!) that looked...
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Byron Rogers
- Aug 31, 2012
- 1 min
Green Tea for Racehorses?
Quercetin, a flavonoid widely distributed in nature (apples, onions, green tea, etc) has previously been shown to increase energy...
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Byron Rogers
- Aug 30, 2012
- 2 min
Are we reaching locomotory limits?
I came across another interesting paper on locomotory limits in humans and other species, including the horse that I thought was timely...
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Byron Rogers
- Aug 28, 2012
- 1 min
A test for Overtraining?
Quite an interesting paper was released today on glucose metabolism rate and peripheral insulin sensitivity of horses undergoing...
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Byron Rogers
- Jul 17, 2012
- 10 min
Clenbuterol and drug regulation in American racing
The drug Clenbuterol is a β2 agonist with some structural and pharmacological similarities to epinephrine (adrenaline). Therapeutically,...
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Byron Rogers
- Jun 27, 2012
- 1 min
Risk Factors in training young racehorses
Dr CW Rogers and his team at Massey University in New Zealand have published another interesting paper on the risk factors in training a...
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Byron Rogers
- Jun 6, 2012
- 6 min
Cardio evaluation (almost) comes full circle
For some time now, cardiovascular evaluation of thoroughbreds using echocardiography has been one way to evaluate the performance...
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Byron Rogers
- Apr 1, 2012
- 2 min
Examining the Airway
We have previously discussed the genetics behind “roaring” and how science is starting to get to the point of being able to identify the...
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Byron Rogers
- Mar 29, 2012
- 2 min
Facing the Breeze
Generally speaking owners, trainers and handicappers/punters don't want to hear a race caller say a horse is "three wide and facing the...
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Byron Rogers
- Mar 28, 2012
- 2 min
Response to Exercise
One of the first indications that truly discerns the elite from the non-elite is response to exercise. You hear it from the trainer...
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Byron Rogers
- Mar 20, 2012
- 3 min
Natural Blood Doping
Circulatory capacity has been shown to be positively related to athletic performance in the thoroughbred and the equine heart and spleen...
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Byron Rogers
- Feb 22, 2012
- 5 min
The Will to Win
The concept of VO2 max was first introduced by Nobel Prize-winning physiologist A.V. Hill in 1923, who found that the amount of oxygen...
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Byron Rogers
- Feb 14, 2012
- 3 min
The 2YO Death Spiral
A death spiral is potentially awaiting us. Internationally, there has been a decline in the annual thoroughbred crop with thoroughbred...
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