Date of birth and purchase price as foals or yearlings are associated with Thoroughbred flat race performance in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Autor: Arango-Sabogal JC; Department of Pathobiology and Population Sciences The Royal Veterinary College Hatfield Hertfordshire UK.; Département de Pathologie et Microbiologie, Faculté de Médecine Vétérinaire Université de Montréal Saint-Hyacinthe Québec Canada., Mouncey R; Department of Pathobiology and Population Sciences The Royal Veterinary College Hatfield Hertfordshire UK., de Mestre AM; Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences The Royal Veterinary College Hatfield Hertfordshire UK., Verheyen K; Department of Pathobiology and Population Sciences The Royal Veterinary College Hatfield Hertfordshire UK.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Veterinary record open [Vet Rec Open] 2022 Sep 23; Vol. 9 (1), pp. e43. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Sep 23 (Print Publication: 2022).
DOI: 10.1002/vro2.43
Abstrakt: Background: Thoroughbred breeders aim to have foals born early in the season, but scientific evidence on the advantages for race performance is scarce and contradictory.
Methods: The association between date of birth and purchase price as foal/yearling, with race performance by the end of the second and third years of life of Thoroughbreds racing in flat races in the United Kingdom (UK) and Ireland (IRE) was assessed using negative binomial and zero-inflated negative binomial models on the entire 2014-2015 UK/IRE foal crops ( n  = 28,282).
Results: In total, 6666 and 9456 horses raced in UK/IRE flat racing by the end of their second and third years of life. Prize money and prize money per start decreased with each additional day beyond 1 January that the foal was born. Purchase price as foal and yearling was negatively associated with the number of races run, while it was positively associated with prize money and prize money per start by the end of the third year of life.
Conclusions: Foals born early in the season had higher earnings by the end of their second and third years of life than foals born later. Differences were more marked among males than females. The most expensive horses sold as foals or yearlings ran fewer races but earned more prize money and prize money per start than less expensive horses. Results from this population-based analyses may inform strategies and management practices aiming to maximise horses' racing performance potential and increase financial returns.
Competing Interests: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
(© 2022 The Authors. Veterinary Record Open published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Veterinary Association.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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