ArticleHeredity2023
Genetic improvement of speed across distance categories in thoroughbred racehorses in Great Britain.
Article in Heredity, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
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- The Heritability of Migration Behaviors in a Wide-Ranging Ungulate.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Genetic Evaluation of Barrel Racing Performance in Quarter Horses.Journal of animal breeding and genetics = Zeitschrift fur Tierzuchtung und Zuchtungsbiologie · 2025Article
- The Thoroughbred Theory: Influence of Breed on Performance at the CCI5*-L Level of Eventing.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- A genome-wide association study of the racing performance traits in Yili horses based on Blink and FarmCPU models.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Analyses of whole-genome sequences from 185 North American Thoroughbred horses, spanning 5 generations.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Genome-wide epigenetic modifications in sports horses during training as an adaptation phenomenon.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
Several studies over recent decades have reported a lack of contemporary improvement in thoroughbred racehorse speed, despite apparent additive genetic variance and putatively strong selection. More recently, it has been shown that some phenotypic improvement is ongoing, but rates are low in general and particularly so over longer distances. Here we used pedigree-based analysis of 692,534 records from 76,960 animals to determine whether these phenotypic trends are underpinned by genetic selection responses, and to evaluate the potential for more rapid improvement. We show that thoroughbred speed in Great Britain is only weakly heritable across sprint (h
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