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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
- 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
- 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
- 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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Byron Rogers
- Feb 18, 2015
- 2 min
Relationship between body weight and racing class
Using anecdotal evidence, many racehorse trainers will tell you that bigger horses might tend to be less sound horses but they tend to be...
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Byron Rogers
- Sep 16, 2014
- 1 min
Ageism at Yearling Sales
With the help of data from the Blood Horse Marketwatch I wrote an article for the Australian magazine Bluebloods on the subject of the...
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Byron Rogers
- Jun 23, 2014
- 3 min
Australia, Al Naamah and the challenge of buying a full sibling to a Classic Winner
Lord Derby and his brother the Hon. Peter Stanley of New England Stud are in a position that just about any owner/breeder in the world...
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Byron Rogers
- May 15, 2014
- 3 min
The relationship of Service Fee to Yearling Sale Averages
In my earlier post on using Machine Learning for Yearling Selection I mentioned that we looked at both the service fee that the stallion...
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Byron Rogers
- Apr 28, 2014
- 12 min
Using Machine Learning to "Short List" at Yearling Sales
Watching the purchasing process that buyers undertake when they are at yearling sales is as much an observation of human prejudice and...
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Byron Rogers
- Mar 18, 2014
- 2 min
Cumulative Prospect Theory - Overestimating Success and Underestimating Risk in Thoroughbred Selecti
In any market where there is buying and selling, there is overestimation and underestimation of risk and reward by humans. The...
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Byron Rogers
- Feb 17, 2014
- 4 min
What a good Thoroughbred Cardio looks like
Following my post last week on lessons learned on genetic testing of thoroughbreds, it was suggested by a well known equine exercise...
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Byron Rogers
- Nov 3, 2013
- 2 min
A New Year's Day for the Breeders' Cup
The Breeders' Cup races have been run and won for another year and we are really happy to say that we had the good fortune to have some...
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Byron Rogers
- Oct 10, 2013
- 1 min
The International Thoroughbred
We were asked to pen a column for the International Thoroughbred magazine on some of our thoughts on using statistics and genetics in...
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Byron Rogers
- Aug 15, 2013
- 2 min
X-Rays at yearling sales - a continuing challenge for Veterinarians
A couple of recent scientific papers have shown the challenges of veterinarians in making calls on x-rays at yearling sales as it relates...
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Byron Rogers
- Feb 2, 2013
- 1 min
Verrazano on the Kentucky Derby trail
Let's Go Racing Stables, managed by Bryan Sullivan and Kevin Scatuorchio, have found themselves a 'live one' in the shape of the...
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Byron Rogers
- Jul 19, 2012
- 4 min
The High Scoring Horse
We are often asked the question....'if you were using these tests to buy your own horses, which ones would you buy?" Not a bad question...
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Byron Rogers
- Feb 5, 2012
- 2 min
The Optimal Distance Test
Performance Genetics is pleased to announce the launch of its “Optimal Distance Test”, a genetic test that uses multiple variations in...
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Byron Rogers
- Nov 22, 2011
- 4 min
Shots on Goal
A client asked me a question the other day which really struck home at what we are about here at Performance Genetics. After explaining...
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