Facts, data, analysis: more about trotting, reference list by EURET
"Greetings for the Holidays! The reference list is updated with a few interesting items, such as on the economy of the horse industry in the state of Indiana and in Hungary, also a useful article on horse transportation.”
Our Swedish friend Prof. Ulf Lindström really does a lot for the International Trotting Sport. Now he sent us a great list of important and continuative informations e.g. links which we proudly present:
European Research Network on
Trotting, (EU/RET).
– Racing, Breeding, Horse Industry.
euret@live.com
The trot is a diagonal gait of the horse. The diagonal of EU/RET is a mark of cross-cutting research on trotting.
There are 70,000 trotting horses in Europe in the professional care of 100,000 humans. Racing alone (incl. thoroughbreds, excl. income and pay-roll taxes, VAT, etc.) generates €6bn in annual tax revenues. This network has the trotter at its heart, the mind on the sport. It is a network that puts research, on everything in between the gene and the world economy, at the service of the horse industry.
Inbreeding is bad for the racing performance of trotters: right? Hand feeding the mare apples in front of her weanling makes fillies and colts spoiled brats, right? Racing already at age 2 is harmful and cuts short the racing career of the trotter, right? Use of the whip is a growing problem in racing, right? Horseplayers are closing in on the big break by using computer programs, right? Ups and downs in the handle at the tote are foretelling the times, right?*
The trotting scene—with one major exception—is no different from other spectator events: the passion among the enthusiasts, the curiosity of the novice. The exception, of course, is that horses don't talk back to people, whether puzzled researchers, jubilant fans or upset punters.
EU/RET recognizes the enigma of the trotter, appreciates gifted horsemanship, the commitment of the aficionados—and takes nothing for truth until useful questions have been answered by cross-cutting analysis.
The First Roundtable of the EU/RET, hosted by Solvalla Racetrack, Stockholm 15-16 August, 2012 concluded that it is imperative that the sport addresses and acts on the core issues: breeding, ownership, recruitment of youth, in the interest of a healthy and robust trotting industry across Europe.
The EU/RET is a network open to everybody with the trotter in their hearts and their mind on the sport. To join, mail euret@live.com (no fees, no commercial links, no obligations). In return, expect continuously updated lists of references and links to interesting sources of data and analyses (cf., below). You are welcome to send notices on articles of research, even to flag your own contributions to the trotting industry.
*Answers closer to wrong than right, further research pending.
References:
(For
items in other languages, see end of list.)
For
the (very) long perspective…
Fik Meijer, Chariot
Racing in the Roman Empire (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2010).
Introductory
history of trotting, electronic & free:
http://www.peppertreefarm.org/ebook_TAS.html
http://archive.org/search.php?query=trotting%20horsesHYPERLINK
"http://archive.org/search.php?query=trotting%20horses&page=1"&HYPERLINK
"http://archive.org/search.php?query=trotting%20horses&page=1"page=1
Digitized books, auction catalogues, etc., from the 19th
century, on legends, by legends:
http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=atla;rgn=full%20text;pagHYPERLINK
"http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=atla;rgn=full%20text;page=simple"e=simple
Facsimile copies of early (1860 - ) magazine articles on
American trotters.
http://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/kendall_collection/
The Guy Kendall Collection. Digitized images of trotters,
from venues in Maine, U.S.
http://insight.stanford.edu/luna/servlet/view/search;JSESSIONID=b2126a3f-f8f7-4c7a-b5d1-c92a46ea8fa5?q=FOLDERTITLE="Stock%20Farm%20--%20tracks"HYPERLINK
"http://insight.stanford.edu/luna/servlet/view/search;JSESSIONID=b2126a3f-f8f7-4c7a-b5d1-c92a46ea8fa5?q=FOLDERTITLE=%22Stock%20Farm%20--%20tracks%22&sort=FOLDERTITLE,PHOTODATE,PHOTOID,BOXNUM"&HYPERLINK
"http://insight.stanford.edu/luna/servlet/view/search;JSESSIONID=b2126a3f-f8f7-4c7a-b5d1-c92a46ea8fa5?q=FOLDERTITLE=%22Stock%20Farm%20--%20tracks%22&sort=FOLDERTITLE,PHOTODATE,PHOTOID,BOXNUM"sort=FOLDERTITLE,PHOTODATE,PHOTOID,BOXNUM
http://insight.stanford.edu/luna/servlet/view/search?q=FOLDERTITLE="Stock%20Farm%20--%20horses%20--%20%233“
Stanford's Palo Alto Stock Farm, photo archive to be
enjoyed, incl Electioneer.
Early
history of racing:
Horse Racing and Gambling in Virginia
http://www.virginiaplaces.org/agriculture/horseracing.html
Melvin L. Adelman, "The First Modern Sport in America:
Harness Racing in New York City, 1825-1870," Journal of Sport History, Vol. 8, No. 1 (1981).
Paul E. Johnson, "Northern Horse: American Eclipse as a
Representative New Yorker," Journal
of the Early Republic, Vol 33, No 4, 2013, pp. 701-726.
Breakthrough of American t-bred racing and break between
t-bred and harness racing, mid 19th century.
Early
history of breeding:
Phillip Thurtle, "Harnessing Heredity in Gilded Age
America," Journal of the History of
Biology, Vol. 35: 2002, 43-78.
Ken McCarr, The
Kentucky Harness Horse (Lexington, The UP of Kentucky, 1978).
Maryjean Wall, How
Kentucky Became Southern. A Tale of Outlaws, Horse Thieves, Gamblers, and
Breeders (Lexington: The UP of Kentucky, paperback, 2012).
Robert Bonner (1824-1899) of New York, legendary horseowner.
http:/HYPERLINK
"http://www.rameltontidytowns.com/robert-bonner.html"/www.rameltontidytowns.com/robert-bonner.html
Denise M. Dowdall, From
Cincinnati to the Colorado Ranger - the Horsemanship of Ulysses S. Grant
(Dublin: Historyeye, 2012).
Indeed, President Grant too took his mares to sires by
Rysdyk’s Hambletonian.
Fiction:
Girls and horses in fiction.
http://ojs.ub.gu.se/ojs/index.php/LIRJ/article/view/3623
Contemporary
breeding:
John Bradley, Modern Trotting Sire Lines (Neenah, WI: Russell Meerdink Company,
1997).
A.K. Thiruvenkadan, N. Kandasamy, S.
Panneerselvam, "Inheritance of racing performance of trotter horses: An
overview," Livestock Science 124
(2009) 163–181.
Suontama, Mari, “Genetic analysis of foal and
studbook traits in selection for racing performance in trotters,” doct diss., 2012. https://helda.helsinHYPERLINK
"https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/10138/35508/genetica.pdf?sequence=1"ki.fi/bitstream/handle/10138/35508/genetica.pdf?sequence=1
M. Suontama, J. H. J. van der Werf, J. Juga,
and M. Ojala, ”Genetic parameters for racing records in trotters using linear
and generalized linear models,” J ANIM SCI,
2012 90:2921-2930.
Racing time and annual earnings, not breaking
stride, show high genetic correlations.
Website for the fans of breeding and pedigrees:
www.breedingtrotters.com
Racing and Society:
C. McConville, A Global Racecourse. Work,
Culture and Horse Sports. Australian Society for Sports History (ASSHStudies
23), 2009.
Academic anthology, mix of topics, also
harness racing.
P McManus, G Albrecht, R Graham, The Global Horseracing Industry. Social,
Economic, Environmental and Ethical Perspectives (London, Routledge, 2012).
Academic monography, thoroughbred racing.
Rebecca Cassidy (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Horseracing (Cambridge: CUP, 2013). Anthology, thoroughbred racing, enjoyable
read.
Susan Nance, "Game Stallions and Other “Horseface
Minstrelsies” of the American Turf," Theatre
Journal, Vol 65, No 3, 2013, pp. 355-372
Racing as "invisible theater" in late 19th century
America, harness racing too.
Sire statistics, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden:
www.thebloodbank.info
Sire statistics, U.S.:
http://stars.ustrotting.com/index.cfm
Sire statistics, France:
http://www.huilerie49.fr/qualifs/en/
http://perso.numericable.fr/~huilerie49/
Sire statistics, Italy:
http://www.gaHYPERLINK "http://www.gaet.it/„et.it/
Sire statistics, Sweden:
https://www.travsport.se/artikel/?cid=1.628
Pedigree Databanks:
www.thebloodbank.info
pedigreeguru.com
http://www.trot-pedigree.net/
http://www.bluechipfamilies.com/
Economic Impact of Horse Industry:
– USA
State of Indiana racing
http://cluteinstitute.com/ojs/index.php/JABR/article/viewFile/9319/9360
2014 State of the New Jersey Horse Racing Industry
http://esc.rutgers.edu/downloads/2014_Health_Of_Horse_Racing.pdf
– Europe
http://www.parimutuel-europe.org/Download/2009-09/EPMA_Economic_impact_of_horse_racing_03Sept09.pdf
– France
M. Cressent and C. Jez, "The French horse industry at
present,"Advances in Animal
Biosciences (2013), 4:s2, pp 54–65– United States
http://www.horsecouncil.org/national-economic-impact-us-horse-indHYPERLINK
"http://www.horsecouncil.org/national-economic-impact-us-horse-industry“ustry
Terance J. Rephann, ”The Economic Impact of
the Horse Industry in Virginia,” University of Virginia, 2011.
http://econ.ccps.virginia.edu/RePEc_docs/ceps_docs/horHYPERLINK "http://econ.ccps.virginia.edu/RePEc_docs/ceps_docs/horse_study_final.pdf“se_study_final.pdf
2012 Kentucky Equine Survey, University of Kentucky, College
of Agriculture, 2013.
http://equine.ca.uky.edu/kyequinesurvey
– Canada
http://equinecanada.ca/industry/index.php?option=com_contentHYPERLINK
"http://equinecanada.ca/industry/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&id=103&Itemid=559&lang=en“
– Baltic Region
"Current status of the equine sector in
the Central Baltic Region" (report):
http://www.slu.se/PageFiles/149634/INNOHYPERLINK "http://www.slu.se/PageFiles/149634/INNOEQUINE%20BASELINE_The%20Equine%20Sector%20in%20Finland%20Latvia%20and%20Sweden%202012.pdf"EQUINE%20BASELINE_The%20Equine%20Sector%20in%20Finland%20Latvia%20and%20Sweden%202012.pdf
– New
Zealand
http://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10289/6937/Economic%20Impact%20Report%20on%20the%20New%20Zealand%20Sport%20Horse%20Industry%20%202012.pdf?sequence=1
– Hungarian
Zsuzsanna Mihók, Economic analysis of the horse sector and relevant
topics for its sustainable development in the Equestrian Revolution,
dr-diss, Univ of Pannonia, 2016.
Horses and Humans:
Goodwin, D., McGreevy, P., Waran, N. & Mclean, A.,
"How equitation science can elucidate and refine horsemanship
techniques," The Veterinary Journal,
Vol. 181, 2009, 5-11.
Hausberger, M., Roche, H., Henry, S. & Visser, E.K., "A review of the
human–horse relationship," Applied
Animal Behavior Science, Vol. 109, 2008, 1-24.
Carole Fureixa, Marie Bourjadec, Séverine Henry, Carol Sankey,
Martine Hausberger, “Exploring aggression regulation in managed groups of
horses Equus caballus,” Applied Animal
Behaviour Science 138, 216– 228, 2012.
Elke Hartmann, “Managing Horses in Groups to Improve Horse
Welfare and Human Safety,” doct diss., 2010
http://pub.epsilon.slu.se/2396/2/hartmann_elke_101108.pdf
Kate Fox, The Racing
Tribe (London: Transaction Publishers, 2005).
Anthropology on British thoroughbred actives and crowd,
relevant to trotting too.
K. Thompson and C. Nesci, "Over-riding
concerns: Developing safe relations in the high-risk interspecies sport of
eventing,"International Review for
the Sociology of Sport, online 4 December 2013. Of general interest in risk and sports.
Horses and Academics:
http://naeaa.com/index.html
National Association of Equine Affiliated Academics,
worthwhile website to check regularly.
M. Steward & S. Bowers, Driving Horses: How to Harness, Align, and Hitch your Horse for Work or
Play (Voyageur Press, 2014).
In the eye of the prospective horseowner:
"Confirming Conformation. Bloodstock
expert offers tips on selecting quality performers." Hoof Beats, July 2002, pp. 65ff.
Carl Palumbo, A Guide to the Lexington and Harrisburg Yearling Sales
(Plantsville, CT: Mane Street Publ, Pb, 2012.)
Travis Ng, Terence Tai-Leung Chong, Man-Tat
Siu & Benjamin Everard, “What determines the price of a racing horse? Applied Economics, Vol 45: 3, 2013:
369-382.
Analysis of auction of thoroughbred yearlings;
parameters familiar for trotters too.
Nutrition, feeding:
Auriane Hurtes, A survey on the feeding of competition horses
and perceptions of forage in the UK and Sweden.
http://stud.epsilon.slu.se/8217/7/hurtes_a_150702.pdf
Training and racing:
JC Tannera, CW Rogers & EC Firthab, "The
relationship of training milestones with racing success in a population of
Standardbred horses in New Zealand," New Zealand Veterinary Journal, Vol 59, Issue
6, 2011, pp. 323-327.
Cheetham J., et al., “Relationships between race earnings and horse age, sex, gait, track surface and number of race starts for Thoroughbred and Standardbred racehorses in North America,” Equine Veterinary Journal, 42, 2010: 346–350.
Camillo Pieramati, et al., “Assessment of limits for racing
speed in the Italian trotter population,” Italian
Journal of Animal Science 2011; 233-266.
“…more than a century will pass before the performance of
the horses reaches its plateau.”
Chris W. Rogers, et al., “Proactive Management of the Equine
Athlete,” Animals 2012, 2, 640-655.
“... effect of earlier introduction of the horse to the
training and stimuli required for racing.”
Transportation
of horses:
Padalino, B., et al (2016), Survey of horse transportation in Australia:
issues and practices. Australian Veterinay Journal, 94: 349–357.
Alessandra Tateo, et al, “ Transport stress in horses,” Journal of
Veterinary Behavior, Vol 7:133-42, 2012.
Racing, track & tack:
Victoria M. Howard, Freddie Hudson and Billy Haughton, Roosevelt Raceway Where It All Began, 2014.
M.L. Peterson, C. Wayne
McIlwraith, Raoul F. Reiser II, “Development of a system for the in-situ characterisation of thoroughbred
horse racing track surfaces,” Biosystems Engineering, Vol 101: 2, 2008: 260–269.
Nicholas C. Noble, "Analysis Modeling and Optimization of a Smart Sulky," mim thesis, University of Maine, 2012.
BW Ross, G Helzerman, L Carlson, T Ross, “Sulky
with adjustable wheel positions,” US Patent 8,408,563, 2013.
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/8408563.pdf
Allan Alkes & Eric Koenig, “Lifting girdle
appatus for enhancing the performance of a harness racing horse,” US Patent
8,429,883, 2013.
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/8429883.pdf
Gambling and
Society:
http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/consultations/docs/2011/online_gambling/sec2011_321_en.pdf
Jacqueline Wilks, "Gambling in the American States: Why
some states are more permissive than others," Thesis for Master of Public
Administration. New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, August
2004.
http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/journal_of_canadian_studies/v041/41.1.mckenna.html
http://www.gold.ac.uk/gamblingineurope/
Ongoing research of gambling in Europe, sign up for mail.
Gordon D. Atlas and Christopher Peterson, "Explanatory Style and Gambling: How Pessimists React to Losing Wagers," Behav. Res. Ther. Vol. 28, No. 6. pp. 523-529. 1990. They ruminate about past races instead of focusing on upcoming races...and go on to lose again...
Phil McManus & Raewyn Graham, "Horse racing and gambling: comparing attitudes and preferences of racetrack patrons and residents of Sydney, Australia," Leisure Studies, 2012, 1–18.
Gambling,
Internet & Law:
Keith C. Miller, “Public policy and the inevitability of
internet gambling,” mimeo., 2012.
http://students.law.drake.edu/lawReview/docs/lrDiscourse201210-miller.pdf
Henrik Jordahl, “Sweden’s Digital Growth Industry,” Report,
Research Institute of Industrial Economics, 2011.
http://www.jogoremoto.pt/docs/extra/OAKMrE.pdf
D. Halcoussis & A. Lowenberg, "All In: An Empirical Analysis of Legislative Voting on Internet Gambling Restrictions in The United States." Contemporary Economic Policy. doi: 10.1111/coep.12054 (2014).
Gambling as science:
Robert P. Schumaker, "Using SVM Regression
to Predict Harness Races: A One Year Study of Northfield Park," mimeo:
Computer and Information Sciences Department, Cleveland State University,
Cleveland, no year.
Kacapyr, Elia, “The efficiency of pari-mutuel betting in standardbred racing,” The Journal of Prediction Markets, Vol 5, No 1, 2011: 1-11
Robert P. Schumaker, ”Machine Learning the
Harness Track: Crowdsourcing and Varying Race History,” mimeo: Central
Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT, no year.
http://www.robschumaker.com/publications/DSS%20-%20Machine%20Learning%20the%2HYPERLINK "http://www.robschumaker.com/publications/DSS%20-%20Machine%20Learning%20the%20Harness%20Track%20-%20Crowdsourcing%20and%20Varying%20Race%20History.pdf"0Harness%20Track%20-%20Crowdsourcing%20and%20Varying%20Race%20History.pdf
Joseph Edward Brierly, Bet To Win At The Harness Races (CreateSpace, Pb, 2012).
Bob Marks, “Golden Rules,” Hoof Beats,
May, 2012.
http://xwebapp.ustrotting.com/absolutenm/templates/hoofbeats.aspx?articleid=48094HYPERLINK
"http://xwebapp.ustrotting.com/absolutenm/templates/hoofbeats.aspx?articleid=48094&zoneid=13"&HYPERLINK
"http://xwebapp.ustrotting.com/absolutenm/templates/hoofbeats.aspx?articleid=48094&zoneid=13"zoneid=13
L.V. Williams & D. Siegel (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Gambling (Oxford: OUP, 2014).
Gramm, M., McKinney, C.N. and Owens, D.H., “The efficiency of exotic wagers in racetrack betting,” in Peel, D., (ed.), Economics of Betting Markets (London: Routledge, 2013).
Gambling as organized interest:
http://blog.horseplayersassociation.org
Funding and managing racetracks:
James Santomier, John Gerlach, (2012) "Public policy and funding New York's new sports venues", Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal, Vol. 2: 3, 241–262.
T.D. Thornton, Not By a Long Shot: A Season at a Hard Luck Horse Track (New York: Public Affairs, 2008). Thoroughbred racing, relevant for harness as well.
The
horse as celebrity:
Charles Leerhsen, Crazy
Good. The True Story of Dan Patch, the Most Famous Horse in America (New
York, 2008).
Sharon B. Smith, The Best There Ever Was. Dan Patch and the Dawn of the American Century (Skyhorse Publishing, 2012). Dan Patch was a pacer.
The
horse as source of healing:
Patricia Cody, Lori Holleran Steiker, Mary Lynn Szymandera,“Healing Through
Horses,” Journal of Social Work Practice in the
Addictions, Vol. 11: 2, 2011.
Trotters
on film:
http://vimeHYPERLINK
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Danish legend Tarok stars in drama (2013), eventually available as DVD at a theater near you.
Edward Ball, The Inventor and the Tycoon: The Murderer Eadweard Muybridge, the Entrepreneur Leland Stanford, and the Birth of Moving Pictures (2013).
Archives
of race results:
http://www.qhurth.com/trav/trot.htm
http://www.classicfamilies.net/cf/ClassicRaces.aspx
Chronicles of Group/Listed race in past 150 years.
http://www.classicfamilies.net/
Similar to previous.
Trotting
federations, official and semi-official websites:
http://www.uet-trot.eu/index.php?option=com_contentHYPERLINK
"http://www.uet-trot.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=143&Itemid=168&lang=en“
www.krieau.at
www.aroc.at
www.trabenbn.co.at
Individual
horses, find:
Austria, “Pferdeübersicht”:
http://www.traberdatenbank.at/index.php?liste_pferde=public
Belgium:
http://www.trottingint.be/Home01.asp?lang=NL
Denmark, "Navn på hest":
http://195.198.34.45/shestinfo?kommando=visa
Finland, "Hevonen“:
http://heppa.hippos.fi/heppa/horse/HorseBasic.html
France:
http://cheval-francais.eu/fr/recherche-dun-cheval.html
Germany, "Trabersuche“:
http://www.hvt.de/web/home.nsf?Open
Hungary:
http://82.131.211.99/php/ugeto.php
http://www.ugeto.com/node/26
Italy, "ricerca generica“:
http://www.gaet.it/
The Netherlands:
http://www.ndr.nl/
Norway:
http://sport.rikstoto.no/?modus=0
Russia:
http://www.trotting.ru/
Serbia:
http://www.serbia-trot.org.rs/PEDIGRE.html
Slovak, Czech and Polish trotting:
http://www.trotdb.info/index.php
Spain:
http://www.federaciobaleardetrot.com/
Sweden:
https://www.travsport.se/hast/visa/175940
Argentina:
http://rrgg.sra.org.ar
In Swedish:
Ethnology (doct diss on life and work in racing stable):
Sara Berglund, Vägen till vinnarcirkeln (Stockholm: Gidlunds, 2006).
History (acad anthology, mix of topics):
M Greiff & S Hedenborg (red.), I sulky och sadel (Stockholm: Carlssons, 2007).
In German:
Winners of Derby-races across Europe, 2013: pedigree
highlights.
http://www.trabrennzucht.at/inhalt-2/international/europaische-derbys-2013-auf.html
Ethnology (acad anthology on life at racing track):
Ina Dietzsch (Hrsg.), Vergnügen
in der Krise. Der Berliner Trabrennsport zwischen Alltag und Event (Panama
Verlag, 2010).
Arguably the first modern analysis of horse racing:
Graf Stephan Széchenyi, Über
Pferde, Pferdezucht und Pferderennen. (Übersetzt von Joseph Vojdisek. Leipzig
und Pesth 1830. Reprint: Hildesheim 1979.)
Website for the Feinschmeckers
of breeding and pedigrees:
http://www.trabrennzucht.at/
German newsletter on the industry, of general interest
scope:
http://traber-news.com/startseite.html
In Danish:
Madsen, C.B., Nielsen, L.B., Petersen, C.H., Analyse af
hestesektorens samfundsoekonomiske betydning i Danmark (in Danish), vol. 1.
Dansk Landbrugsraadgivning, Landscentret Heste, Aarhus, 2009.
In French:
Sophie Cueille, "Le cheval de course en Île-de-France,
une présence architecturale et paysagère," In Situ [En ligne], 18 | 2012, mis en ligne le 31 juillet 2012,
consulté le 09 décembre 2013. URL : http://insitu.revues.org/9685 ; DOI : 10.4000/insitu.9685
Vial, C.; Aubert, M.; Perrier-Cornet, P.,” Les choix organisationnels des propriétaires de chevaux de loisir dans les espaces ruraux,” Économie Rurale, 2011 No. 321: 42-57. Go to: http://www.amazon.fr/ref=gno_logo Enter: Trotteur Fr
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