Predicting racehorse outcomes revolves around specialization of the data in order for data science to do its work.

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 out of the Mathis M...

Creating a convoluted neural network that when combined with biomechanical features and DNA markers results in a state of the art prediction

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 Road, out of the Dep...

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 in Australia for our...

Craig Bernick, the President of Glen Hill Farm, a racing & breeding business based in Ocala, Florida penned a timely tweet on the eve of the September Yearli...

Using anecdotal evidence, many racehorse trainers will tell you that bigger horses might tend to be less sound horses but they tend to be better horses. Whil...

In my earlier post on using Machine Learning for Yearling Selection I mentioned that we looked at both the service fee that the stallion was at the time the ...

Watching the purchasing process that buyers undertake when they are at yearling sales is as much an observation of human prejudice and paranoia as it is of t...

In any market where there is buying and selling, there is overestimation and underestimation of risk and reward by humans. The Thoroughbred market is no diff...

Following my post last week on lessons learned on genetic testing of thoroughbreds, it was suggested by a well known equine exercise physiologist that I was ...

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 involvement in New Ye...

We were asked to pen a column for the International Thoroughbred magazine on some of our thoughts on using statistics and genetics in thoroughbred selection....

A couple of recent scientific papers have shown the challenges of veterinarians in making calls on x-rays at yearling sales as it relates to future soundness...

Let's Go Racing Stables, managed by Bryan Sullivan and Kevin Scatuorchio, have found themselves a 'live one' in the shape of the undefeated three year old Ve...

Performance Genetics is pleased to announce the launch of its “Optimal Distance Test”, a genetic test that uses multiple variations in the equine DNA code to...

A client asked me a question the other day which really struck home at what we are about here at Performance Genetics. After explaining how we look at horses...