'So-called 3 x 3 inbreeding is negligible' Soundness in thoroughbreds BLOODSTOCK WORLD.(Sports)

From: The Racing Post (London, England) | Date: May 20, 2008 | Copyright information

Byline: Rachel Pagones, Amy Bennett and Nancy Sexton

In the second part of a week-long series, we ask professionals for their considered opinion on whether racehorses are becoming more fragile. Today Patrick Cunningham, professor of animal genetics at Trinity College, Dublin, and Matthew Binns, professor of genetics at the Royal Veterinary College in London, respond to the question: Is the amount of inbreeding now present in the thoroughbred a contributor to increasing f...

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