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Marginal Gains - can the philosophy apply to horseracing?

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Neutraceuticals for Horses from Nature’s Basket

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Neutraceuticals for Horses from Nature’s Basket

Nature’s basket offers a rich source of beneficial nutrients, including phytonutrients. Horse owners and trainers have always been interested in what these sometimes relatively un-researched ingredients can offer for the health and performance of horses in training. In this article, I explore three ingredients that have become popular components of supplements and also as stand-alone products

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Equine Metabolic Syndrome

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Trickle feeding - more in tune with nature

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Trickle feeding - more in tune with nature

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North American version: issue 35 February- April 2015

European version: issue 48 January- March 2015

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Prohibited natural substances - The risks and responsibilities

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Prohibited natural substances - The risks and responsibilities

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The challenge of feeding globetrotting horses

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The challenge of feeding globetrotting horses

Travelling across continents and time zones is much more commonplace these days for horses, and talented horses will often race all over the world during their racing careers. European horses will commonly travel to countries such as Australia, Duba…

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THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED IN EUROPEAN TRAINER - ISSUE 46

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What is the correct feeding position?

In its natural state, the horse is a browsing, herd-dwelling herbivore, living on a diet of varied forms of herbage and typically eating for around sixteen to eighteen hours a day. Wild horses are not particularlyfit, they usually move at a slow pac…

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North American version: issue 32 TRIPLE CROWN 2014

European version: issue 45 Spring 2014

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Succulents and treats

Training racehorses could be described as being the epitome of art and science coming together. While the latest research and recommendations are important, there has always been a strong belief in tradition and folklore in the racing community wher…

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THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED IN - EUROPEAN TRAINER - ISSUE 44

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Feeding fibre to racehorses

More recently, researchers have turned their attention to feeding behaviour and the results of these studies arehelping horse owners to feed their animals in a more natural manner, while meeting nutrient requirements and minimising performance-cripp…

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North American version: issue 30 Fall/Winter 2013

European version: issue 43 Autumn 2013

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Vitamins - as easy as ABC?

Extra vitamins can often be viewed as a key ingredient to maintaining health, or optimising performance, but is this really the case? The mystique of vitamin supplements is relative benefit or worth, or indeed their necessity, unless there has been …

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North American version: issue 30 Fall/Winter 2013

European version: issue 43 Autumn 2013

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Bran mashes useful tradition or nutritional pariah?

IN ITS most common form a bran mash consists of a warm sloppy mixture of wheat bran, with other minor ingredients such as rolled barley, linseed, vegetable oil, honey, molasses or date syrup often being added. Theexact recipe for a particular yard’s…

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THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED IN - EUROPEAN TRAINER - ISSUE 40

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To beet or not to beet? - Will beetroot become part of the racehorse’s diet?

BROWSING the supermarket shelves today you may have noticed that beetroot can now be found in the juice section – it has become very popular in this form. A resurgence of interest inbeetroot is largely due to new information available on its health …

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Hydroponic feeding - the pros and cons of this resurging concept

From seed to feed in 7 daysHydroponic grass involves growing green shoots indoors under climate control with irrigation, without any soil or other growing medium. The development of the cereal “seed” to a feed takes only 6-7 days. The cereal is germ…

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Calming influence - the effects of diet on behaviour

THERE is an enormous amount written about the link between feeding and behaviour, and the ‘calming supplement’ market is sizeable. However, there is infact very little direct research in horses that investigates how diet impacts on behaviour if at a…

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Equine Science Society review

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Pre-Race Feeding

Avoid abrupt changes in the dietA horse’s digestive system is finely tuned to its existing diet and any significant change prior to racing should be avoided, as the environment and microbial balance in the gut is easily disrupted. This can increase …

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Sports nutrition - Horses and humans. What parallels can we draw?

NutritioN significantly influences athletic performance – at least this is what a recent international olympic Committee (ioC) statement on human sports nutrition has stated. they have also advised that all athletes should adopt specific nutritional…

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European Trainer - issue 33 - Spring 2011)

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Racehorse Nutrition - Vitamin K – the forgotten vitamin

Many forms of vitamin KVitamin K is in fact not a single vitamin but a group of vitamins with a similar structure and resulting action. Two forms of vitamin K that you may be familiar with are phylloquinone (or vitamin K1) and menaquinone (or vitami…

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(European Trainer - issue 32 - Winter 2010)

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Can nutrition give horses that "first class" travel experience?

TRAVEL, whether by road, air, train, or sea, is a routine experience for most horses in training. For some, travel may be limited to relatively short journeys by road to race meetings within the UK, whilst other horses globetrot around the world to …

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(European Trainer - issue 31 - Autumn 2010)

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Mycotoxins – Health Issue for Racehorses or Simply Hype?

INTERESTINGLY, increased mycotoxins through their skin. Exposure to awareness has coincided with the mycotoxins has been shown to contribute emergence of a range of products to to disease and even death in some instances help address the issue, in t…

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(European Trainer - issue 30 - Summer 2010)

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