TRM Trainer of the Quarter - Sir Henry Cecil

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The TRM Award for Trainer of the Quarter goes to Sir Henry Cecil for his high record of training winners including 25 British Classics and not forgetting Frankel who went on to win all 14 of his starts. Sir Henry Cecil to many is not only a Trainer of the Quarter but a Trainer of a Lifetime.

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Standing fracture repair - an important step forward in fracture repair

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STANDING surgery in the horse is growing in popularity across soft tissue and orthopaedic disciplines, as it is often quicker and avoids the inherent risks of generalanaesthesia. At Rossdales Equine Hospital in Newmarket, some racehorses with specif…

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Laminitis and cryotherapy - how cold will you go?

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 RUMOUR has it that healthy, fit thoroughbred racehorses never develop laminitis... Apparently, someone forgot to tell this to the horses.“No horse, no matter how valuable or well cared for, is immune to laminitis. Standardbred stallion Artsplace an…

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

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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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Yasutoshi Ikee - aiming at Arc glory

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BASED at Ritto Training Centre near Kyoto, Ikee currently occupies the top spot in the trainer’s championship by prize money and lies second in terms of winners. Now one of the starsof Japanese racing, it was only by chance that his family became in…

 

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Michael Figge - Stepping out into the big time

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BY FAR the most important training centre in Germany is Cologne, but after that there is little between Hoppegarten (Berlin), Hanover, Iffezheim (Baden-Baden), and Munich. Munich, the capital of Bavaria, is one of the most attractive cities in Europ…

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All the King's horses - the regiment with a racing pedigree

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THE King’s Royal Hussars pride themselves on their rich heritage, and its light-hearted, well- disciplined and professional approach has been their hallmark for years. With many of their ranksfilled with sons, brothers, and grandsons of former membe…

 

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Food for thought in Istanbul - The Asian Racing Conference

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THE first session was opened by Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges, Chief Executive Officer of the Hong Kong Jockey Club, who gave an introductory speech – serving an “as is” assessment ofthe challenges to racing in the digital age. With 90% of the inform…

 

 

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Riding fees and percentages – who gets what across Europe?

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Well, perhaps the latter is true and some ownders do have titles, but the harsh reality is that workingwith horses means manual labour, long hours, and scant financial reward, whether you happen to be a trainer, jockey, or stable lad. No one who wor…

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Has the golden gate opened for racing in China?

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CHINA’S communist government officially banned horseracing in 1949, but the rapid development of new racetracks since the 1990s has slowly but surely brought about a changeof mind from government officials. Now, racing is now one of the largest grow…

 

 

 

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TRM Trainer of the Quarter - Patrick Shanahan

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The TRM Trainer of the Quarter goes to Patrick Shanahan who swapped a 33 year career in the saddle for a trainer's license only in March and welcomed his first winner home on the 19th May with Prime Jock and then his first stakes winner with My Special J's on 12th August. 

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World rules - with increasingly sensitive drug testing, we need a worldwide standard on when and with what to treat racehorses

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WHEN thoroughbred racing was developing 300 or more years ago there were few "drugs" and no drug testing whatsoever. Carl Vernet, an equine artist in the early 1800s, painted scenes of trainers medicating horses from large bottles right before the r…

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Hydroponic feeding - the pros and cons of this resurging concept

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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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Australian racing - Mitchell Lamb introduces us to the tough Australian racehorse

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 ELITE athletes – equine or human – need to be structurally sound with the power to perform. Feed them well, keep them fit and ready, and get them on to the track to do what they were born to do – win races. It’s the method that saw legendary Austra…

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The performance enhancer paradox

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THE win by gelding Goldoni in the win-and-you’re-in Investec Derby Trial at Epsom has brought the issue of geldings’ participation in championship races back into focus, as has the emergence overthe past 12 months of the gelded Cirrus des Aigles as …

 

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The inner calm of Mikel Delzangles

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I’D BE silly to say that I don’t get stressed. Of course I do but there’s no point making a big fuss about things,” he says over breakfast at a friend’s home in Newmarket ahead of Hermival’s engagementin that afternoon’s 2,000 Guineas. Of course Del…

 

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Heat - how racehorses handle summer temperatures

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Although it can be safe to run in the heat, high temperatures combined with high humidity can have profound effects on a thoroughbred’s performance and health.

How would you like to win a $1 - million Grade 1 stakes race and not have a win photo to hang on the wall? The intense heat and humidity the day Big Red Mike won the 151st Queen's Plate at Woodbine Racetrack is why there is no "official win photo" taken by photographer Michael Burns. Trainer Nick Gonzalez, winner of more than 1,000 races, still recalls that day in 2010.

"It was 100 degrees in the shade. We had the Queen and a big crowd. Mike is a very excitable horses, so it was stressful even before the race began" says Gonzalez, who trains primarily out of Woodbine and Fort Eire with his assistant, wife Martha.

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Life after racing - going for gold in other equine disciplines

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IT’S no surprise, given the qualities needed for racing, that failed racehorses can excel in other disciplines, and event riders have been seeking them out long before re-homing charities brought them to our attention.In the past, the bigger, more m…

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Early starts can mean longer careers

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NEW research, published in the Equine Veterinary Journal – the premier international journal for equine veterinaryscience – has shown that exercise early in life has a positive effect on musculoskeletal health and may have a positive impact on the f…

 

 

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John McVeigh: in search of a global set of medication rules

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McVEIGH said, “We should put the best medical minds together for the welfare and integrity of the sport.”However, pointing at the Australian and US models as an example, he acknowledged the logistical problems of a worldwide set of rules ever becomi…

 

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