Parental age could be key factor in helping thoroughbred horses be first past the post uniofexeter RSocPublishing
Dr. Patrick Sharman, Postdoctoral Research Associate from the Center for Ecology and Conservation at the University of Exeter's Penryn Campus in Cornwall said,"The fact that parental age affects racehorse speed should be of interest to the horseracing industry.
The effects that parental age can have on the characteristics of their offspring has been studied in a number of species in recent years. However, this is the first in-depth study which attempts to estimate maternal and paternal age effects specifically for speed in thoroughbred horses. While this may sound modest, it actually converts into a predicted difference of approximately one second over a race of one mile between, by way of example, a five-year-old and a 15-year-old mother. Intriguingly, the paternal age also showed a decrease of 0.011 yards per second for every increasing year in stallion age—a key finding since thoroughbred stallions play no active involvement inDr.
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