Jockey Club Announces Project to Identify At-Risk Horses

The statistics-based system would notify track officials and regulatory vets if a horse is deemed at-risk.
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The Jockey Club today announced plans to develop a statistics-based system that would notify track officials and regulatory veterinarians when a horse that has been entered in a race is facing a heightened risk of injury.

Tim Parkin, BSc, BVSc, PhD, DipECVPH, MRCVS, a noted epidemiologist from the University of Glasgow in Scotland who has conducted research and studies on Thoroughbreds in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong, is currently developing the protocols, which are based on The Jockey Club’s Equine Injury Database. The project is expected to be complete in August 2012.

"This project provides us with an exciting opportunity to identify the top risk profiles and focus our interventions on the horses that fit those profiles," said Parkin, who made a presentation on the potential of such a system at The Jockey Club’s Round Table Conference on Matters Pertaining to Racing in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., in August 2011.

That presentation centered on a complex analysis of data that included more than 1.5 million race starts to identify risk factors for injury. For example, a horse that had made numerous starts in a period between one and six months, while also meeting other similar criteria, would fit the highest risk profile

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