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Heritability of racing performance in the Australian Thoroughbred racing population.
Animal genetics - 1 Feb 2015
Velie B D, Hamilton N A, Wade C M
Abstract excerpt
Performance data for 164,046 Thoroughbreds entered in a race or official barrier trial in Australia were provided by Racing Information Services Australia. Analyses estimating the heritability for a range of racing performance traits using a single-trait animal model were performed using ASREML-R. Log of cumulative earnings (LCE; 0.19 ± 0.01), log of earnings per race start (0.23 ± 0.02) and best race distance...
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