The Importance of Speed in Horse Breeding

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With horse breeding, the goal is you kind of try to choose your stallion that looks like it's going to produce very, very fast offspring. And by breeding fast horses together, you're supposed to get even faster horses. Dr. Sharman wanted to dig into the genetics and see for sure what was going on. He looked at his kind of same database of 700,000 race times. These were between the years of 1995 to 2014.

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