scholarly journals The association of 2-year-old training milestones with career length and racing success in a sample of Thoroughbred horses in New Zealand

2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. TANNER ◽  
C. W. ROGERS ◽  
E. C. FIRTH
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Career Length ◽  
Thoroughbred Horses

Investigation of Factors Influencing Thoroughbred Horses' Racing Career Length in Turkey

2021 ◽  
pp. 103782
Author(s):  
Doğukan ÖZEN ◽  
Ufuk KAYA ◽  
Hülya ÖZEN ◽  
Pınar AMBARCIOĞLU ◽  
Necmettin ÜNAL ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Career Length ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Thoroughbred Horses

Digestion characteristics of two forms of preserved lucerne forage fed to mature horses

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. A. Waldron ◽  
D. G. Thomas ◽  
I. Pryor
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Energy Intake ◽  
Water Intake ◽  
Reference Values ◽  
Dry Matter ◽  
Dry Matter Intake ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Digestible Energy ◽  
Thoroughbred Horses ◽  
Nutritional Benefits

SummaryA trial was conducted, using 12 mature thoroughbred horses as a cross-over design, to compare the water and energy intake and the digestibility of dry lucerne chaff (LC) against a controlled fermented lucerne (CFL) product (HNF Fiber®; Fiber Fresh Feeds Ltd, Reporoa, New Zealand). Significant (P < 0.05) increases in dry matter intake (20%), energy intake (20%), retained energy (32%) and digestible energy (22%) were observed for the CFL compared to the LC. In a concurrent small scale study within the trial, numeric improvements in water intake (18%) for the CFL were recorded. The results demonstrated that the standard reference values underestimate the digestibility and nutritional contribution made by CFL when fed to horses, and that this type of forage has increased nutritional benefits.

scholarly journals Patterns of Racing and Career Duration of Racing Greyhounds in New Zealand

Animals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 796
Author(s):  
Anna L. Palmer ◽  
Charlotte F. Bolwell ◽  
Kevin J. Stafford ◽  
Arnon Gal ◽  
Chris W. Rogers
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Median Number ◽  
Electronic Records ◽  
Public Concern ◽  
Inter Quartile Range ◽  
Microsoft Access ◽  
Career Length ◽  
Quartile Range ◽  
Access Database

The welfare and wastage of racing greyhounds is a topic of public concern. Little is published about the racing patterns of these dogs in New Zealand. The aim of this study is to describe the pattern of greyhound racing in New Zealand. Data on all race starts between 1 August 2011 and 25 March 2018 were supplied by Greyhound Racing New Zealand. A cohort was created containing dogs that had a racing career between 1 August 2013 and 31 July 2017. Data were collated within a customized Microsoft Access database from electronic records of all racing starts for every dog within the 2013–2016 racing seasons. For this cohort of racing dogs, there were 97,973 race starts across 22,277 races involving 2393 individual greyhounds. The median number of days between racing starts was 7 days (inter-quartile range (IQR): 4–10 days). The median career length was 424 days (IQR: 206–647 days) and the median number of racing starts throughout a racing career was 35 (IQR: 16–59 starts). Dogs of similar ability finished their career at a similar age.

Protein and amino acid digestion characteristics of two forms of preserved lucerne forage fed to mature horses

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.L. Stowers ◽  
L.A. Waldron ◽  
D.G. Thomas ◽  
I.D. Pryor
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acids ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Amino Acid ◽  
Crude Protein ◽  
Protein Digestibility ◽  
Individual Amino Acid ◽  
Acid Digestion ◽  
Protein Levels ◽  
Thoroughbred Horses ◽  
Amino Acid Requirements

SummaryA trial was conducted, using 12 mature thoroughbred horses in a cross-over design, to compare the protein and amino acid digestibility of dry lucerne chaff (LC) against a controlled fermented lucerne (CFL) product (HNF Fiber®; Fiber Fresh Feeds Ltd, Reporoa, New Zealand). Crude protein levels were higher in CFL compared to LC, and when individual amino acids were analysed, the majority (88%) of these were also higher. Crude protein digestibility was significantly (18%) higher in CFL diets (P < 0.001) compared to LC. Significant differences (P < 0.05) were seen in individual amino acid digestibility in favour of the CFL diet for lysine (24%) and methionine (30%), as well as threonine, histidine, tyrosine, leucine, isoleucine, valine, alanine, proline, serine and aspartamine. Although amino acid requirements in horses are still poorly defined, the higher availability of amino acids in CFL compared to LC should be taken into account when formulating horse diets including these feedstuffs.

Magellanic Cloud Eclipsing Binaries: Primary Distance Indicators

1999 ◽  
Vol 190 ◽  
pp. 563-566
Author(s):  
J. D. Pritchard ◽  
W. Tobin ◽  
J. V. Clausen ◽  
E. F. Guinan ◽  
E. L. Fitzpatrick ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Magellanic Cloud ◽  
Eclipsing Binaries ◽  
Fundamental Parameters ◽  
Distance Indicators

Our collaboration involves groups in Denmark, the U.S.A. Spain and of course New Zealand. Combining ground-based and satellite (IUEandHST) observations we aim to determine accurate and precise stellar fundamental parameters for the components of Magellanic Cloud Eclipsing Binaries as well as the distances to these systems and hence the parent galaxies themselves. This poster presents our latest progress.

Heat-Etching with a Bullivant Type II Simple Freeze-Cleave Device

1970 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 106-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald S. Weinstein ◽  
N. Scott McNutt
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
General Hospital ◽  
Massachusetts General Hospital ◽  
Type I ◽  
Type Ii ◽  
Collaborative Effort ◽  
Temperature And Pressure ◽  
The University

The Type I simple cold block device was described by Bullivant and Ames in 1966 and represented the product of the first successful effort to simplify the equipment required to do sophisticated freeze-cleave techniques. Bullivant, Weinstein and Someda described the Type II device which is a modification of the Type I device and was developed as a collaborative effort at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Auckland, New Zealand. The modifications reduced specimen contamination and provided controlled specimen warming for heat-etching of fracture faces. We have now tested the Mass. General Hospital version of the Type II device (called the “Type II-MGH device”) on a wide variety of biological specimens and have established temperature and pressure curves for routine heat-etching with the device.

A Cytochemical Study of Glucose-6-Phosphatase (G-6-PASE) in Cells Participating in Atherogenesis of Rabbit Aorta

1975 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 460-461
Author(s):  
Sidney D. Kobernick ◽  
Edna A. Elfont ◽  
Neddra L. Brooks
Keyword(s):  
Lipid Metabolism ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Aortic Wall ◽  
Rabbit Aorta ◽  
Plaque Formation ◽  
Metabolic Changes ◽  
Atherosclerotic Plaques ◽  
Cytochemical Study ◽  
Cellular Alteration ◽  
New Zealand White Rabbits

This cytochemical study was designed to investigate early metabolic changes in the aortic wall that might lead to or accompany development of atherosclerotic plaques in rabbits. The hypothesis that the primary cellular alteration leading to plaque formation might be due to changes in either carbohydrate or lipid metabolism led to histochemical studies that showed elevation of G-6-Pase in atherosclerotic plaques of rabbit aorta. This observation initiated the present investigation to determine how early in plaque formation and in which cells this change could be observed.Male New Zealand white rabbits of approximately 2000 kg consumed normal diets or diets containing 0.25 or 1.0 gm of cholesterol per day for 10, 50 and 90 days. Aortas were injected jin situ with glutaraldehyde fixative and dissected out. The plaques were identified, isolated, minced and fixed for not more than 10 minutes. Incubation and postfixation proceeded as described by Leskes and co-workers.

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