Scientific Eye for Horse Racing

From exercise physiological point of view, an experiment to analyze the temperature of racehorse by using TVS starts. By observing blood circulation and the glow of muscles, the development of muscle, and the use and fatigue of muscles can be analyzed. In the future, someone may use the thermal image data to help the tip for winning horse.

Photo 1, Photo 2, Photo 3

Photo 1 shows the temperature of horse body doing light exercise. The fact that the temperature is not risen so much tells us that the burden for muscle is light. Photo 2 is an image of horse body running in breaking in the turf. It is seen that the temperature is higher than the temperature in photo 1 and the muscles is working more. Photo 3 Shows that the body glows after the training.
Looking these photos from a point of view on the balance of muscles of horse to be used, it can be seen that there are no big difference between the front and rear portion of the body and it indicates the horse is in ideal condition with taking well-balanced exercise. Generally speaking, there is no conspicuous temperature difference in the horse body under non-exercise condition. The horse is considered to be strong in race if uniform temperature distribution is gained all over its' body in exercise time.

Photo 4, Photo 5

It is considered that front legs are related to the pulling power and good cornering and rear legs to pushing power. As the horse in photo 4 has the highest temperature area on the hips and buttocks, it is called rear-drive type maximising rear body power.
Photo 5 is for two horses run together. It is observed that the temperature of the left horse made much better time record is higher than that of another horse.

  • (Thermal images by TVS-8100)
  • *Information was furnished by Weekly Gallop.

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