Byron Rogers
The Lasix debate: the Scientists muddy the waters
The debate over the use of race-day medication, in particular the use of Lasix in North America has been heating up over the past year or...
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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
- Aug 24, 2014
- 3 min
Bayern, a lesson on genotype and pace
The racing performances of the Bob Baffert trainee Bayern confuses most pedigree guys. Bayern is by Offlee Wild, a son of Wild Again who...
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Byron Rogers
- Aug 20, 2014
- 3 min
Bruce Lowe numbers, Mitochondrial DNA and Performance
Common to all mammalian species, Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is inherited exclusively from the mother. Mutations of this mtDNA occur,...
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Byron Rogers
- Aug 16, 2014
- 2 min
Is Girth Circumference related to Heart Size in Thoroughbred Racehorses?
With the September Yearling Sales coming around the corner, one of the more common beliefs often quoted by yearling buyers is that a...
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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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Byron Rogers
- May 19, 2014
- 5 min
On Nasal Strips (and tongue ties) in racehorses....
Yesterday afternoon, California Chrome trainer Art Sherman contacted the NYRA Stewards requesting permission to use nasal strips on the...
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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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Byron Rogers
- May 11, 2014
- 3 min
Are Triple Crown Winners getting slower?
Earlier this week in the Thoroughbred Daily News I wrote a letter to the editor in response to Bill Oppenheim's column. Bill pointed out...
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Byron Rogers
- May 4, 2014
- 4 min
Is winning the Kentucky Derby relevant to the breeding industry?
We have just witnessed the 140th running of the Kentucky Derby. No doubt by now that there will be stud farms around America now...
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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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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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Byron Rogers
- Mar 7, 2014
- 3 min
Science catching up to soundness in Thoroughbreds
Most of the time I get fairly bored by newly released scientific papers. Many are just re-hashes of old work with a different angle while...
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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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Byron Rogers
- Feb 5, 2014
- 5 min
3 Lessons Learned about Genetic Testing of Thoroughbreds
Earlier this week I was asked to write down some thoughts about genetic testing in Thoroughbreds for the upcoming International...
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Byron Rogers
- Jan 2, 2014
- 3 min
What are the Odds - Odds Ratio's at Yearling Sales
We are in Australia at the moment for the yearling sales series which kicks off next week at the Magic Millions in Queensland. In fact,...
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Byron Rogers
- Nov 15, 2013
- 3 min
Thoroughbred Selection by The Numbers
On the run out of the Northern Hemisphere yearling sales and into the Southern Hemisphere one, we've been doing a lot more data modeling...
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Byron Rogers
- Nov 7, 2013
- 6 min
Genetics and Pedigree Analysis - just names on a page
Without in any way belittling or demeaning those that struggle daily with substance abuse issues, I feel that I have to start this post...
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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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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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