In recent months Brandon Velie, a PhD student at Sydney University has published three very interesting population studies on horses in Australia and Hong Kong in the Equine Veterinary Journal. Profiling the careers of Thoroughbred horses racing in Hong Kong between 2000 and 2010 The association of age at first start with career length in the Australian Thoroughbred racehorse population Profiling the careers of Thoroughbred horses racing in Australia between 2000 and 2010 Bra

Genomic Predictors of Trainability - While this study is related to human's we found it interesting nonetheless as it has been a long term study. In particular of interest was the findings that "A genomic predictor score based on the number of favorable alleles carried at 21 single nucleotide polymorphisms appears to be able to identify low and high training response classes that differ by at least threefold." To read the study click here #Trainability #Genomics