This morning my RSS feed alerted me to an article appearing on New Scientist titled "Wearable device for racehorses could help prevent fatal injuries" After setting the scene in regards to the death rates of racehorse at racetracks (which made me think it was a purposeful press release to frame the product) the article went on to mention a new(wish) wearable device for horse training and monitoring called Equimètre and outline its claims as a product that will be useful in th

For some time now, cardiovascular evaluation of thoroughbreds using echocardiography has been one way to evaluate the performance potential of an unraced thoroughbred. Much of the work on this relationship was initially done many years ago by Dr. Norm Rantanen, Dr. David Lambert and Jeff Seder in America, while Dr. Lesley Young in the United Kingdom has also done a lot of work in this field. Echocardiography has emerged to become a standard diagnostic procedure in equine card