Preliminary Examination of the Biological and Industry Constraints on the Structure and Pattern of Thoroughbred Racing in New Zealand over Thirteen Seasons: 2005/06-2017/18

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dc.citation.issue10
dc.citation.volume11
dc.contributor.authorLegg KA
dc.contributor.authorGee EK
dc.contributor.authorCochrane DJ
dc.contributor.authorRogers CW
dc.contributor.editorPeterson M
dc.coverage.spatialSwitzerland
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-21T02:44:13Z
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-04T01:41:39Z
dc.date.available2021-09-27
dc.date.available2023-08-21T02:44:13Z
dc.date.available2023-09-04T01:41:39Z
dc.date.issued2021-10
dc.date.updated2023-08-21T02:42:43Z
dc.descriptionCopyright: © 2021 by the authors.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis study aimed to examine thirteen seasons of flat racing starts (n = 388,964) in the context of an ecological system and identify metrics that describe the inherent characteristics and constraints of the New Zealand Thoroughbred racing industry. During the thirteen years examined, there was a 2-3% per year reduction in the number of races, starts and number of horses. There was a significant shift in the racing population with a greater number of fillies (aged 2-4 years) having a race start, and subsequent longer racing careers due to the inclusion of one more racing preparation post 2008 (p < 0.05). Additionally, there was an increasingly ageing population of racehorses. These changes resulted in more race starts in a career, but possibly because of biological constraints, there was no change in the number of race starts per season, starts per preparation, or days spelling between preparations (p < 0.05). There was no change in the proportion of horses having just one race start (14% of new entrants), indicating that the screening for suitability for a racing career remained consistent. These data identify key industry parameters which provide a basis for future modelling of intervention strategies to improve economic performance and reduce horse injury. Consideration of the racing industry as a bio-economic or ecological model provides framework to test how the industry may respond to intervention strategies and signal where changes in system dynamics may alter existing risk factors for injury.
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dc.edition.editionOctober 2021
dc.format.extent2807-
dc.identifierARTN 2807
dc.identifierani11102807
dc.identifierhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34679829
dc.identifier.citationLegg KA, Gee EK, Cochrane DJ, Rogers CW. (2021). Preliminary Examination of the Biological and Industry Constraints on the Structure and Pattern of Thoroughbred Racing in New Zealand over Thirteen Seasons: 2005/06-2017/18.. Animals (Basel). 11. 10. (pp. 2807-).
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/ani11102807
dc.identifier.eissn2076-2615
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
dc.identifier.harvestedMassey_Dark
dc.identifier.issn2076-2615
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10179/19998
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherMDPI (Basel, Switzerland)
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/11/10/2807
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dc.rightsCC BYen_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_US
dc.subjectThoroughbred
dc.subjecthorse
dc.subjectinjury
dc.subjectracing
dc.subjectsystem dynamics
dc.titlePreliminary Examination of the Biological and Industry Constraints on the Structure and Pattern of Thoroughbred Racing in New Zealand over Thirteen Seasons: 2005/06-2017/18
dc.typeJournal article
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