Last week Equinome – now badged as a division of PlusVital – announced the latest iteration of their "Elite Performance Test", version 3.0. One of their most prominent claims is that they are now "using" on a platform of 670,000 genetic markers, which considers over 48,000 genetic markers related to elite racing and breeding performance. V 3.0, which uses the Equine 670KSNP chip, was of course preceded by V2.0 that used the 75KEquine SNP chip and V1.0 that used the initial 50

There were a couple of interesting articles in the show jumping arena (no pun intended) that caught my eye in relevance to performance in thoroughbreds. The first was an article about the breeder of Romulus, a world class British show jumper whose owner has elected to clone him as he reaches old-age, with the resultant foal aged 18 months old, yet to step foot into the show jumping world. Like thoroughbreds however, not all show jumping bodies will allow cloned horses to be r

There have been a few new studies release in the past week or so that are of interest. The papers are attached to the links This one is on the muscle loss that occurs following exercise. It is based on trotters but we think that the same would apply to thoroughbreds also. It mentions some specific amino acids and the like to supplement post work to increase muscle recovery and reduce muscle loss. It is a little underpowered, not enough horses really, but it is a very interest