World rules - with increasingly sensitive drug testing, we need a worldwide standard on when and with what to treat racehorses
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Hydroponic feeding - the pros and cons of this resurging concept
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Australian racing - Mitchell Lamb introduces us to the tough Australian racehorse
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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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THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED IN - EUROPEAN TRAINER - ISSUE 38
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Author: Stacey Oke
Life after racing - going for gold in other equine disciplines
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How do the Australians do it?
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Frankel apart, all the talk has been of Black Caviar, the Australian super filly who has swept all before her, winning 21 successive races prior to her Royal Ascot engagement. The five-year-old hopes to join the impressive band of Australian horses that have made waves on the European stage.
Elite athletes - equine or human - need to be structurally sound with the power to perform. Feed them well, keep them fit and ready and will get them on to the track to do what they were born to do - win races. It's the method that saw the legendary Australian trainer Tommy Smith win 34 Sydney training titles and a world record 279 Group One races - "bone and muscle" was coined to describe how Smith's runners would invariably seem to be rock hard fit, in superb condition and always hard to get past in a tight finish.
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Author: Mitchell Lamb
TRM Trainer of the Quarter - Michael Figge
/The TRM Trainer of the Quarter Award goes to Michael Figge who started off in racing by being a successful amateur jockey, winning 31 races, he was once leading amateur in Germany and also Fegentri vice-champion. He then followed in his fathers footsteps by because a trainer in 2006 and saddled the Italian Derby winner in 2012.
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Author: David Conolly-Smith