Reddam Racing's champion and GI Kentucky Derby hero Nyquist (Uncle Mo), beaten just once in eight career starts, will work five furlongs prior to the first race at Santa Anita Saturday, trainer Doug O'Neill said Thursday. The bay will come onto Santa Anita's main track at approximately 3:45 p.m. ET, before the day's first post
No one could have imagined the lasting legacy of Canada’s most famous race horse on the global breeding industry.
ELMONT, NY - Trainer Stanley Hough's Global Campaign made a triumphant return to the track on Saturday, bouncing back from his first career defeat last out to champion the Peter Pan Stakes (G3) at Belmont Park.
Nearly everyone has felt it. The beat of one’s heart pounding inside their chest with a momentary pause before exhaling, as if it is the first time witnessing the iconic moment in history.
The Thoroughbred horse is a highly valued domestic animal population under strong selection for athletic phenotypes. Here we present a high resolution genomics-based analysis of inbreeding in the population that may form the basis for evidence-based discussion amid concerns in the breeding industry over the increasing use of small numbers of popular sire lines, which may accelerate a loss of genetic diversity. In the most comprehensive globally representative sample of Thoroughbreds to-date (n = 10,118), including prominent stallions (n = 305) from the major bloodstock regions of the world, we show using pan-genomic SNP genotypes that there has been a highly significant decline in global genetic diversity during the last five decades (FIS R2 = 0.942, P = 2.19 × 10−13; FROH R2 = 0.88, P = 1.81 × 10−10) that has likely been influenced by the use of popular sire lines. Estimates of effective population size in the global and regional populations indicate that there is some level of regional variation that may be exploited to improve global genetic diversity. Inbreeding is often a consequence of selection, which in managed animal populations tends to be driven by preferences for cultural, aesthetic or economically advantageous phenotypes. Using a composite selection signals approach, we show that centuries of selection for favourable athletic traits among Thoroughbreds acts on genes with functions in behaviour, musculoskeletal conformation and metabolism. As well as classical selective sweeps at core loci, polygenic adaptation for functional modalities in cardiovascular signalling, organismal growth and development, cellular stress and injury, metabolic pathways and neurotransmitters and other nervous system signalling has shaped the Thoroughbred athletic phenotype. Our results demonstrate that genomics-based approaches to identify genetic outcrosses will add valuable objectivity to augment traditional methods of stallion selection and that genomics-based methods will be beneficial to actively monitor the population to address the marked inbreeding trend.
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He's Had Enough works out at Santa Anita, CA
For over 100 years... doing the usual, unusually well.
A horse is a horse, of course of course, unless it's a race horse. Then it will be better dressed than you, my friends. Here's champion sprinter Hay List walking around Australia's Flemington Racecourse in a full horse body suit: That is what the AU$900 (US$948) garment looks like, although it is in fact made of a revolutionary moisture-management fabric. It is the latest and most unusual piece of cutting-edge technology designed to assist the thoroughbred's recovery from races and strenuous training gal...
Lap of honour after winning the Juddmonte 2012
See a photo of jockeys riding bareback in colorful jerseys and competing to win the Palio in Siena, Italy, from National Geographic.
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Curlin and jockey Robby Albarado - Finished 4th in the G1 Breeders' Cup Classic. Santa Anita - 10/25/2008 - Race 9
Well, today, as we celebrate this week in blog history (history, history, history… that was me in the big, echoing microphone, if you didn’t get that), we focus on Kentucky. For today, …
Thoroughbred racehorses on Kentucky horse farm
The first Jockey Club-sponsored Thoroughbred show to be held in New England will take place at Saddle Rowe in Medway, Mass., Oct. 7. With funding from the Jockey Club’s newly established Thoroughbr…
