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    Comedians, Death and racehorse selection
    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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    Markerless biomechanics in yearling racehorse selection - stage 1.
    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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    A.I. and Racehorses: Can you teach a computer to understand what a 'good cardio' looks like
    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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    A Kentucky Oaks winner! Congrats to client Clearsky Farm.
    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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    Three Group Winners in a week for Performance Genetics Clients!
    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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    The Sales Orphan
    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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    Relationship between body weight and racing class
    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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    The relationship of Service Fee to Yearling Sale Averages
    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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    Using Machine Learning to "Short List" at Yearling Sales
    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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    Cumulative Prospect Theory - Overestimating Success and Underestimating Risk in Thoroughbred Selecti
    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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    What a good Thoroughbred Cardio looks like
    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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    A New Year's Day for the Breeders' Cup
    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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    The International Thoroughbred
    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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    X-Rays at yearling sales - a continuing challenge for Veterinarians
    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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    Verrazano on the Kentucky Derby trail
    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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    The Optimal Distance Test
    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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    Shots on Goal
    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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