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Inbreeding is a “contributing factor” to mid- and late-term pregnancy loss in thoroughbreds, new research has shown. Researchers from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), in collaboration with Cornell University, analysed 189 DNA samples – including a control group – and found that thoroughbred pregnancies lost in mid and late gestation had “significantly higher inbreeding metrics […]
THE first finding of fragile foal syndrome (FFS) in a non-warmblood, a thoroughbred, is “significant” and may mean more screening is carried out in future. A study by the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) with the University of California Davis Veterinary Genetics Laboratory (VGL) and Rossdales Laboratories, Newmarket, recommended the disorder be renamed from warmblood fragile […]