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The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has approved a new equine radio frequency identification (RFID) injectable transponder for use in horses, the American Horse Council (AHC) says. The microchip contains a passive transponder programmed with a unique 15-digit number that can be read by any ISO-compliant reader. Each microchip is capped with a patented, biocompatible material called BioBond which prevents migration from the site of implantation, an item that was necessary...
Argentina is once again taking strides forward in their plans to aid the development of Equine Sport within South America. The Argentinean Federation is set to host a week of courses for Para-Equestrian Officials in Buenos Aires from 24 – 30 September. The Federation has been working tirelessly to bring together this prestigious event. All their efforts are much appreciated by the FEI and we hope that the courses will be widely supported. Our thanks extend also to the anonymous benefactor who...
All health, performance, and disease traits in horses are fundamentally influenced by a subset of the approximately 25,000 genes that comprise the equine genome. Athletic ability and physical fitness in humans and animals are complex traits manifested by the interaction of a number of factors including genetics, environment/management and training, and it is well recognised that these traits have a strong inherited component. Genetic analyses have shown that in Thoroughbreds 30%...
Since 1999, EQUITANA has presented a comprehensive and dynamic program featuring world class Competition, a major Exhibition, a diverse Education program and spectacular equine Entertainment. EQUITANA Asia Pacific (EAP) will transform the Melbourne Showgrounds into a horse lover’s paradise, featuring an equine expo, educational sessions, entertainment and competitions, on November 15...
The British Horse Society has been awarded a grant of £8,115 by Awards for All for its Geographical Information System (GIS) project. The project aims to form an expansive equestrian database of information, utilised through Digital Ordnance Survey maps and layers of numerical data and illustrative images. The Society currently holds 1:25000 scale maps on the system for Britain and intends to add Northern Ireland and the Republic as soon as funding is sourced. Heather...
Spending hours loading a reluctant horse onto a horsefloat or trailer could be a thing of the past, thanks to an award-winning invention by a British woman. The invention of a harness that helps one person to load a horse safely by Cath Brown, a lecturer in Equine Science at Aberdeen University, won top place and £4000 in the university's Blue Skies Thinking competition. Cath got the idea for the harness after having problems with her own horses. "My mare used to load...
Horse trainers who have traditionally relied on experience and intuition to gauge the performance of horses will soon be able to apply some of the same methods that sports scientists use to train elite athletes. Gmax Ltd., a new spin out company from technology and product development consultancy Cambridge Design Partnership (CDP) was launched in July 2007. It has developed a novel GPS product that will send essential physical, physiological and environmental information about a training...
One of the great ironies for agriculture is the popular recognition horse breeders enjoy as genetics experts while academics in agriculture consider horse breeding an obtuse art. Indeed, even horse breeders prefer to regard breeding as an art and every horse a canvas. It is an apt analogy, because one way to be regarded a great horse breeder is one masterpiece, a Kentucky Derby winner. In practice, of course, those who achieve that goal have been long-term practitioners of the art...
The horse has been a colorful and significant part of US history. Horses were used for transportation, preparing fields for planting and harvesting crops, operating machinery, and shipping commodities. A social observer in the Colonial era wrote, “Only a vagabond or fool walks,” referring to the widespread propensity of the people of the time to ride horses instead of walking as they went about their daily tasks. Even as the automobile began replacing the horse as the...
The origin and evolution of the thoroughbred racehorse of today has been the subject of scientific debate for hundreds of years, but there is no definitive conclusion other than general agreement that there are at least four distinct origins. Evidence from fossils shows that prehistoric horses existed over 50 million years ago in Asia, Africa, France, Germany, etc. and these fossil remains confirm that the horse was about 12 hands (48 inches at the highest point of the withers). These were...
When comparing the scientific approaches and efforts that are currently applied to improve performance capability in all fields of human athletic competition, it is more than obvious that scientific approaches to improve performance, training conditions or analyse training status of horses are dramatically ignored, even by top athletes in the equestrian sport. We are missing knowledge-based concepts to monitor equine fitness and strategies to improve performance capabilities based on a...