Bhanu Chowdhary, a Professor of Veterinary Anatomy and Public Health at Texas A & M University and collaborator on the Equine Genome...

We have co-authored a paper with Dr Takashi Abe and Dr Charles Kearns in the Journal of Comparative Exercise Physiology. A link to the...

Fat-Free mass is one of the tests in our Sales Select test that we use to identify elite thoroughbred talent. Basically our findings have...

Below is the Press release that the ITBF/EFTBA issued following the meeting on DNA profiling for performance in thoroughbreds, in Paris,...

Just about the best explanation of Thoroughbred mitochondrial DNA as it relates to family numbers (Bruce Lowe) can be found here....

There were a couple of really interesting abstracts from the ISAG (International Society of Animal Genetics) meeting in Cairns Australia...

A while ago we commented on a study out of New Zealand from the team headed by Dr CW Rogers (no relation to the author here!) that looked...

Quercetin, a flavonoid widely distributed in nature (apples, onions, green tea, etc) has previously been shown to increase energy...

I came across another interesting paper on locomotory limits in humans and other species, including the horse that I thought was timely...

A new paper out on Nature this week is very interesting and has some wide implications for the harness horse and also humans. Lead by a...

Quite an interesting paper was released today on glucose metabolism rate and peripheral insulin sensitivity of horses undergoing...

A decade ago Emmeline Hill, Dr Patrick Cunningham and others from the Trinity College in Dublin published a seminal paper on...

We are often asked the question....'if you were using these tests to buy your own horses, which ones would you buy?" Not a bad question...

The drug Clenbuterol is a β2 agonist with some structural and pharmacological similarities to epinephrine (adrenaline). Therapeutically,...

There were a couple of interesting articles in the show jumping arena (no pun intended) that caught my eye in relevance to performance in...

Dr CW Rogers and his team at Massey University in New Zealand have published another interesting paper on the risk factors in training a...

The following letter appeared in the Thoroughbred Daily News in response to a column by noted industry observer Bill Oppenheim. It...

For some time now, cardiovascular evaluation of thoroughbreds using echocardiography has been one way to evaluate the performance...

Three interesting papers have come across my desk that I thought were worth commenting on: The first is a genome wide study on height and...

Jenni Laidman examines the current state of play in Scientific American. The four page article is a very interesting take on who the...