Review article

GENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS IN TROTTERS RACING PERFOMANCE EVALUATION

Mato Čačić orcid.org/0000-0002-1009-8692 ; Croatian Agricultural Agency, Zagreb, Croatia
Stjepan Šimundža ; Viteško alkarsko društvo – Alkarska ergela d.o.o., Sinj

Abstract

Breeding goal and selection measures in breeding of trotter horses are subjected to horses production with the fastest possible speed in trotting. Evaluation of racing horses’ performances is important because of horse impact on horse industry. More valuable horses and larger prizing fond result in a higher attendance of hippodromes and more money paid in betting offices. Race horse industry notes a large number of data used in predictions during breeding of horses with better racing performances every year. Racing performances are affected by a large number of genetic and environmental (non-genetic) factors caused by different environmental effects. Therefore, they are more variable. The major genetic and environmental parameters used in the models of breeding values racehorses in this case trotters are reviewed in this paper.

Keywords

trotter; genetic parameters; evaluation of racing performances

Hrčak ID:

94630

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/94630

Publication date:

17.12.2012.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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