A new study on treadmill use in conditioning has been released. You can read the full study by clicking here but it is an interesting one...

For those of you who read this blog, you would be aware that I am not a great fan of the current graded stakes system as a framework for...

We have previously posted about an "all natural" EPO supplement that is making its way around the industry at the moment. It has been...

A new study out of Hong Kong completed in conjunction with the Animal Health Trust in England and the University of Glasgow seems to...

Abstracts have just been released for the upcoming Equine Science Society Symposium to be held in New Mexico at the end of May. Among the...

There have been a couple of interesting scientific papers released in recent days, one on horses and the use of hydrogen-rich water and...

First of all....a little lesson for some background. It is well established in exercise physiology that an increase in EPO production may...

A few weeks back I posted about how the Australian Racing Board had seen fit to investigate the use of hypoxic training in thoroughbreds....

Over the past 25 years the use of near infrared spectroscopy in exercise and sports science has increased exponentially. The majority of...

Angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE) plays a major role in blood pressure regulation and fluid and electrolyte homeostasis in both...

A couple of recently published scientific papers took my interest, one of which was on bicarb-loading. There has been a lot of papers...

A new study on human distance runners and their response to EPO has shown that four weeks of every-other-day injections improves...

Yet another study, this one on 160,000 racehorses over a 10 year period in Australia, has refuted the claim that racing two-year-olds is...

In mammals, an individual’s sex is determined by the chromosomes it inherits from its parents. Two X chromosomes lead to a female,...

The Australian Racing Board has seen fit to release a statement regarding hypoxic training in Thoroughbreds. Training in hypoxia is...

As he runs this weekend in the Wood Memorial G1, here is the breeze of Vyjack (by Into Mischief) at the Fasig Tipton Midtlantic 2YO sale...

Fatigue is an interesting concept, especially as it relates to racehorses. Over on Moxy Monitor they have outlined the two standing...

A new study in the European Journal of Applied Physiology has outlined the benefits of exercising at low glycogen levels with cyclists....

In recent months Brandon Velie, a PhD student at Sydney University has published three very interesting population studies on horses in...

Let's Go Racing Stables, managed by Bryan Sullivan and Kevin Scatuorchio, have found themselves a 'live one' in the shape of the...