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Current Print Issue (Winter 2011) Contents
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Jean-Paul Gallorini: The true master in the art of success
Jean-Paul Gallorini is one of French racing’s great characters. From humble beginnings, the man from Marseille has been champion National Hunt trainer 11 times in his career, and has won the Grand Steeple-Chase de Paris (French Gold Cup) an impressive four times.
GARY WITHEFORD: The horse educator
To call Gary Witheford a horse whisperer would be incorrect. He may be fluent in the silent language of the horse, but the world for which he is preparing his young equine students is anything but quiet. The shouts and cheerful banter of his team resound across the once peaceful farm, just like any racing yard or racecourse stable. For 27 yearlings this is not just pre-school, this is finishing school, too.
Lucy Wadham: a trainer with a dual purpose
As the home of the first British Classics of the season, it’s understandable that Newmarket is more naturally associated with Flat racing, with Lambourn and increasingly large tracts of Somerset considered to be the National Hunt strongholds. It would be folly, however, to overlook jumpers from the Newmarket stable of Lucy Wadham.
Have Horse, Will Travel
There has been a rapid growth of international and intercontinental runners over the last decade, with 183 European runners competing in Dubai in 2005, rising to 248 in 2010. Last year saw 793 UK-based overseas runners, and three British trainers won in excess of £2-million abroad. Lower-rated handicappers are also travelling further afield and the welcome opening of Mons, in cooperation with France Galop, for the winter season on the all-weather offers further opportunities, but with increased options for horses comes added pressure for the racing authorities.
An industry held to ransom by African Horse Sickness
The burgeoning South African thoroughbred industry is currently being held back by crippling quarantine measures due to outbreaks of African Horse Sickness (AHS) in recent years. There’s hope that a new diagnostic test may change all that.
The biomechanics of suspension
HangTime is a smartphone application that uses the internal accelerometers to measure how long the phone is in free fall from the time you throw it in the air to the time you catch it again (assuming you catch it). Merriam-Webster defines hang time as the length of time a leaping athlete is in the air. I personally think of hang time as the suspension phase of the gait of a galloping horse as it flexes its body and tucks its hind legs up underneath its belly reaching for the dirt farthest away just like a long jumper would. As a chiropractor and sports therapist dedicated to working with equine athletes, I have come to believe that it is the ability of the horse to correctly perform this motion that separates the elite from the novice.
Fit and not fat Is body condition important to racing performance?
Should we really be worried about obesity in racehorses? A quick glance around the paddock of most racetracks in Europe would suggest not. However, whilst the number of horses racing with a much higher than optimum body weight may be low, this doesn’t represent the full story. When evaluating racehorse feed management, it is not uncommon for a nutritionist to hear the words “I have to work the horses harder to keep the weight off.” Also the question of over-conditioning in youngstock should perhaps be discussed in the context of its effect on horses once in training.
The value of MRI in diagnosing lameness
Magnetic Resonace Imaging (MRI) is now an increasingly important diagnostic tool for discovering the causes of lameness in horses, particularly in thoroughbreds.
Jean-Paul Gallorini: The true master in the art of success
Jean-Paul Gallorini is one of French racing’s great characters. From humble beginnings, the man from Marseille has been champion National Hunt trainer 11 times in his career, and has won the Grand Steeple-Chase de Paris (French Gold Cup) an impressive four times.
GARY WITHEFORD: The horse educator
To call Gary Witheford a horse whisperer would be incorrect. He may be fluent in the silent language of the horse, but the world for which he is preparing his young equine students is anything but quiet. The shouts and cheerful banter of his team resound across the once peaceful farm, just like any racing yard or racecourse stable. For 27 yearlings this is not just pre-school, this is finishing school, too.
Lucy Wadham: a trainer with a dual purpose
As the home of the first British Classics of the season, it’s understandable that Newmarket is more naturally associated with Flat racing, with Lambourn and increasingly large tracts of Somerset considered to be the National Hunt strongholds. It would be folly, however, to overlook jumpers from the Newmarket stable of Lucy Wadham.
Have Horse, Will Travel
There has been a rapid growth of international and intercontinental runners over the last decade, with 183 European runners competing in Dubai in 2005, rising to 248 in 2010. Last year saw 793 UK-based overseas runners, and three British trainers won in excess of £2-million abroad. Lower-rated handicappers are also travelling further afield and the welcome opening of Mons, in cooperation with France Galop, for the winter season on the all-weather offers further opportunities, but with increased options for horses comes added pressure for the racing authorities.
An industry held to ransom by African Horse Sickness
The burgeoning South African thoroughbred industry is currently being held back by crippling quarantine measures due to outbreaks of African Horse Sickness (AHS) in recent years. There’s hope that a new diagnostic test may change all that.
The biomechanics of suspension
HangTime is a smartphone application that uses the internal accelerometers to measure how long the phone is in free fall from the time you throw it in the air to the time you catch it again (assuming you catch it). Merriam-Webster defines hang time as the length of time a leaping athlete is in the air. I personally think of hang time as the suspension phase of the gait of a galloping horse as it flexes its body and tucks its hind legs up underneath its belly reaching for the dirt farthest away just like a long jumper would. As a chiropractor and sports therapist dedicated to working with equine athletes, I have come to believe that it is the ability of the horse to correctly perform this motion that separates the elite from the novice.
Fit and not fat Is body condition important to racing performance?
Should we really be worried about obesity in racehorses? A quick glance around the paddock of most racetracks in Europe would suggest not. However, whilst the number of horses racing with a much higher than optimum body weight may be low, this doesn’t represent the full story. When evaluating racehorse feed management, it is not uncommon for a nutritionist to hear the words “I have to work the horses harder to keep the weight off.” Also the question of over-conditioning in youngstock should perhaps be discussed in the context of its effect on horses once in training.
The value of MRI in diagnosing lameness
Magnetic Resonace Imaging (MRI) is now an increasingly important diagnostic tool for discovering the causes of lameness in horses, particularly in thoroughbreds.
