Horse Racing Research Articles

Speed racing industry information management system based on machine learning and data mining

Horse racing is different from other competitive sports. It is an entertainment sport which combines commercialization and sports spirit. Therefore, horse racing has the characteristics of sports and commercial events. In addition, horse racing also has the nature of social welfare, and part of the funds for holding horse racing will be used for fund-raising. Now horse racing has become a complete industry and an important part of the tertiary industry. Horse racing, as a new industry, has developed rapidly. However, there are still some defects in the management of horse racing events. The main problem is the lack of information management of horse racing industry. The introduction of information technology into the management of horse racing industry can realize the efficient management of industrial information, which is more professional and orderly for horse racing.

An agent-based model of a betting exchange via a single-threaded and object-oriented implementation

The sports betting industry attracts millions of participants to gamble on a wide variety of sports across the world. Horse racing is inextricably linked to gambling, and one of the most popular methods of placing bets is via a betting exchange, such as Betfair. A population of bettors will have a diverse range of beliefs, opinions, and experiences to help guide them to the bets they want to place. These prior beliefs are then converted to likelihoods, represented by betting odds, of certain outcomes occurring during a sporting event, either before it has started or while it is running, the latter known as in-play betting. Trading a bet through an exchange involves matching a back bet and a lay bet together to form a near zero-sum game, where one bettor’s profit is another bettor’s loss without taking into account the exchange’s commission fees. This mechanism allows various possible strategies for a bettor to turn a profit gambling on a horse race, with automated betting agents proven to be a popular method of discovering and exploiting strategies. Creating and training these programs requires huge quantities of data, and since horse racing is the most lucrative sports betting market, historical data can be very expensive to obtain and time-consuming to understand. This thesis presents an implementation of a possible solution to this issue, as an alternative to historical data. The Bristol Betting Exchange (BBE), a novel proposal for sports betting research devised by Cliff (2021) [8], is a model simulation of a betting exchange, that is composed of a population of automated betting agents, as well as a horse race simulator that produces compelling horse race scenarios. My version of the BBE is entirely written in the Python 3 programming language, is single-threaded and provides a simple Command-Line-Interface, all to aid accessibility for future researchers who may be non-expert programmers. I also designed and developed a prototype, cloud-based version of this implementation that can reduce computational cost for users and increase the speed of generating large datasets via the use of multiple virtual machines provided by Amazon Web Services. Future work to improve this implementation will include making it even more accessible, through possible deployment of a cloud application with a web-based Graphical User Interface as a controller, as well as rigorous analysis to compare simulated data against its historical counterpart.

US Gambling Stagnation: Will New Gambling Forms Make a Difference?

Much has been written recently in the popular press about the rise of sports gambling, historical horse racing or instant racing (HHR), and esports. However, despite this, some note an overall decline in the popularity of gambling and gaming in general as horse racing (pari-mutuel) wagering has declined dramatically over the decades and as casino and lottery revenues have fallen slightly since before the Great Recession. This exploratory research note examines the trends in US gambling over the last several decades and explores whether the new forms of gambling will stem and reverse overall gambling stagnation in the United States. Despite reports of new gambling outlet successes, it appears that sports gambling, HHR, and esports have not done much to stop the overall fall in gambling revenues. This is probably due to stagnant disposable personal income growth.

Inferring Relative Ability from Winning Probability in Multientrant Contests

We provide a fast and scalable numerical algorithm for inferring the distributions of participant scores in a contest under the assumption that each participant's score distribution is a translation of every other's. We term this the horse race problem, as the solution provides one way of assigning a coherent joint probability to all outcomes and pricing arbitrarily complex horse racing wagers. However, the algorithm may also find use anywhere winning probabilities are apparent, such as with e-commerce product placement, in Web search, or, as we show, in addressing a fundamental problem of trade: who to call, based on market share statistics and inquiry cost.

Return of Thoroughbred Racing Horses to the Races after Treating Slab Fractures of the Third Carpal Bone with PRP and Stem Cells

Background: Despite the fact that slab fracture of the third carpal bone is an event of great worldwide relevance in racehorses, the third carpal fracture doesn’t have data on treatments and return to racing in Brazil. The search for efficient treatments and which provide recovery providing horses return to racing is an objective of sports equine medicine. Regenerative therapies like Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) and Stem Cells (MSc) have demonstrated a great potential in the treatment of several injuries. For the treatment of three Thoroughbred racing horses at Brazilian Jockey Club, with sagittal plane slab fractures of the third carpal bone, we used the association of PRP and Stem Cells for reduction of the rest and good return to conditions athletics of these horses.Cases: Three Thoroughbred racing horses, males, 4 and 5 years old, showed slab fracture third carpal bone in different moments of their activity at Brazilian Jockey Club. Usually, the treatment for this type of fracture is the arthroscopic repair and the conservative management. We performed after initial radiographic evaluation dorsoproximal-dorsodistal oblique (DPr-DDiO) “skyline”, intra-articular applications of PRP and MSCs. The treatments were performed according to the radiographic follow-up of the lesion evolution. No other treatment was performed concomitantly with cell therapy in the 3 treated patients. Three treatments were performed in the first patient and 2 in the second and third patients. Before each treatment for all patients, we performed radiography dorsoproximal-dorsodistal oblique (DPr-DDiO) ‘skyline’ of the carpus. After this step, the animal was sedated with 10% xylazine hydrochloride at a dose of 0.5 mg/kg intravenously. Antisepsis of the carpus was performed and applied with radiographic monitoring of the needle positioning, first the PRP in the volume of 2 mL and in sequence, 20 million cells MSCs suspended in autologous plasma from the cell bank of the Cellen veterinary stem cell laboratory, totalizing 4 mL. The 3 horses returned to their training routines and continued to be monitored by clinical examinations and radiography, there were no post-treatment complications and all ran again in the median time of 253 days after the first application of PRP and stem cells. Everyone won the first race after treatment.Discussion: The 3 patients suffered the fractures after running at the Brazilian Jockey Club. All fractures were simple- no comminuted slab fractures of the third carpal. In our study, we chose to carry out the treatments with PRP and MSCs by intra-articular application. The regenerative medicine occupies a prominent place in recovery from injuries and the association of PRP and MSCs have played an important role in the treatment of athlete horses in tendons, bones and joint injuries and our work, the treatment was effective, without complications, helped to reduce local inflammation, perceptually reducing the pain observed before the application and the animals started running again with a quality equivalent to that observed before the occurrence of injuries. This way, our results demonstrated that the association PRP and MSCs was effective in recovering the 3 patients, all of them ran after injury. The median time for racing was 253 days and the horses won their first races after fractures occurred. These results encourage the use of the association of PRP and MSCs also for no comminuted sagittal plane slab fractures of the third carpal in Thoroughbred Racing horses.

The examination of pedagogical formation education certificate program students’ perceptions regarding education and ideal education through metaphors

The aim of this research is to reveal the perceptions of pedagogical formation certificate program students about education and ideal education concepts through metaphors. In this research, the phenomenology design, one of the qualitative research designs, was used. The study group consisted of 98 pedagogical formation certificate program students studying at Nizip Education Faculty of Gaziantep University in 2018-2019 academic year. The data of the study was collected through a structured interview form prepared by the researchers. The data obtained was transferred to computer media and analyzed by content analysis. The participants presented 69 different metaphors about the concept of education. Among these metaphors; tree, book, life and horse racing metaphors were used the most. Metaphors for the concept of education are grouped under 11 conceptual categories. Eight of these categories have positive features, while three have negative features. 74 different metaphors were put forward by the participants about the ideal education. Among these metaphors; life, sapling, book and playground metaphors were used the most, respectively. Metaphors for the concept of ideal education were gathered under 11 conceptual categories.

A Study on the Coupling Mechanism between Horse Racing Technical Person Cluster and Economic Growth Model of Wuhan city

A Study on the Coupling Mechanism between Horse Racing Technical Person Cluster and Economic Growth Model of Wuhan city

“Puttin’ Eyes on a Horse”: Horsemanship Attunements and the Merry-go-round of Kentucky’s Thoroughbred Racing Industry

This article examines how Thoroughbred trainers in Kentucky learn, experience, and practice the embodied tradition of horsemanship within the economically declining and ethically fraught American horse racing industry. I explore how horsemen are inculcated into this tradition of agrarian masculine knowledge in orientations and attunements. I also consider how the particular practice of “puttin’ eyes on horses” evokes affective tones and ties between horse and horsemen that are said to enable trainers to “listen to horses,” facilitating partial knowing and compelling forms of care. In an agrarian industry that brands itself in terms of nostalgias, good horsemanship is valorized at the same time as economic constriction and consolidation marginalize and undermine many trainers’ expertise and social roles. Even as horsemen know this life with horses is unsustainable, I demonstrate that they feel trapped on what they call “the merry-go-round” of racetrack life. In contrast to much contemporary anthropology that narrates human-animal ties in terms of the transformative and open possibilities of continual becoming, I find that the affective force relations and associated social roles in animal care compel relationships that entrench people into agrarian lives and livelihoods that they know they are economically and socially problematic. This article thus speaks broadly to the precarities and difficulties experienced by swathes of middling workers and managers in stagnating contemporary middle America.

Encoder Less Hex- Phase Motor Drive Operated Under Fault Using Kalman Filter

High phase machines (HPM) is the race horse of the near future decades. It offers the distribution of large power over more phases. The capability of the HPM drives to survive even if it is subjected to gate drive circuit fault is of great interest. Such a merit improves the system reliability and dependability. The HPM at post fault condition is able to deliver considerable percentage of its rated torque. The amount of derating depends on the number of the entire HPM phases and the number phases lost. As the number of HPM phases increases, the derating due to a single phase loss decreases. Several researchers exert large efforts solving HPM fault overcome issues. The latest fault overcome technique is the HDPOT. Some other efforts are exerted to get rid of the annoying mechanically weak encoders. Encoder-less operation is an additional factor that enhances the overall system reliability. Attention is paid as well to operation without encoder of the HPM subject to fault. Kalman filter is one of the observer based encoder-less methods. Kalman filter is a well-established encoder-less method that has been applied to three phase machines and HPM as well. Still the HDPOT method is not investigated together with an encoder- less method. This paper hopes to close this gap with proved simulation work. This paper will investigate the encoder-less operation of an asymmetrical six phase machine subjected to single gate drive fault using kalman filter and HDPOT method.

Effect of general manager changes on financial performance: a study on BIST 30 companies

Purpose- The decisions of the top managers of a company significantly affect the financial performance of that company. For companies, the general manager is actually the most valuable intellectual resource for that company. General managers' influence on strategies and organizational outcomes is critical. In this respect, the study is important and focuses on whether changes in the general manager have an impact on financial performance. There are many criteria for the selection of a new general manager. In this election, almost like a "horse race", companies can finish this job by choosing from among the inside candidates or buy the experience from outside. Candidates selected from the inside can act faster and on the spot because they know the company. External candidates, on the other hand, can make more agile and correct decisions because they have a pool of resumes and different experiences. This study aims to analyze the financial performance of companies included in the BIST30 index. When the literature is searched, the decisions of the company’s top management and the status of the company, which are the main factors of this study, significantly affect the financial performance of the companies. The study is carried out to measure the financial performance impact based on the periods with a change of general manager. The focus and purpose of the study are to analyze the financial performance of the general manager change while analyzing whether the status of the company as a public/private company has an effect on financial performance. In this respect, the study is different from other studies. Methodology- The design of the research covers companies with a change of general manager. The main body of the research consists of public companies included in the Borsa Istanbul (BIST) 30 index. First of all, within the scope of the literature examined on the effect of general manager changes on financial performance, variables such as ROA, ROE, Tobin's Q are used as dependent variables and Leverage Ratio, Share Closing Price, General Manager Change, General Manager's Origin, General Manager's Experience and Number of Employees determined as. Data on firm performance indicators were obtained from the PDP (Public Disclosure Platform) electronic database, Thomson Reuters Eikon Data Terminal and independent audit reports of the companies. In order to measure the impacts better, data for the pre and post-change periods were also collected. In order to create a balanced panel set, 24 companies out of 30 companies included in the Borsa Istanbul (BIST) 30 index were included in the research. The reason why 6 companies are excluded from the scope of the analysis is that there are no general manager changes as of the quarter periods of 2011-2019, which were included in the scope of work in the relevant companies. The effects of the origins, experience, and status of the newly appointed general manager on the financial performance of the company as a public/private sector company were analyzed with panel data regression analysis. Descriptive statistics were created, panel unit root tests, Hausman test, and panel regression analysis were performed respectively in order to achieve the purpose of the study. Findings- This study conducted on Borsa Istanbul (BIST) 30 Companies was not consistent in terms of regression results. First of all, within the scope of the analysis, it has been concluded that there is no significant relationship between the general manager changes and the financial performance of the company. While examining this effect, the selection of the general manager, which is frequently mentioned in the literature, by the internal or the external appointment was included in the analysis, and as a result, it was determined that the newly appointed general manager was selected through internal appointment and external appointment did not have an effect on financial performance. As a result of the study, a similar result was reached with the study conducted by Fanegan (2010) in the literature. According to the findings obtained from the analysis, it was concluded that the effect of being a Public/Private Sector company within the scope of general manager changes on financial performance was not found to be statistically significant. This result stands out as a point that diverges from the literature. Conclusion- The effect of the changes in the general manager on the financial performance of the companies was found to be statistically insignificant for the 24 companies included in the BIST30 companies and the period 2011Q1-2019Q4.

토토와 로또 판매점 형태의 경마 소형판매점 설치 방식 도입 방안 연구

토토와 로또 판매점 형태의 경마 소형판매점 설치 방식 도입 방안 연구

12주 승용조련이 더러브렛 경주 퇴역마의 스트레스 변인에 미치는 영향

The main purpose of the study was to analyze the influences of riding horse training on Ear position, cortisol and Stress index with Thoroughbred retired racehorse. Our study included 9 Thoroughbred racehorse that had retried form horse racing. Thoroughbred retired racehorse was performed 20-50 minute a days, 5 times per weeks for 3 months. The statistical analysis was done using dependent t-test were carried out to find out if there was a significant time effect. Coping with stressors can be measured by direct procedures, including the evaluation of behavioral and physical parameters. The followings are the major findings of the analysis. First of all, The measurement on Ear position of Thoroughbred horses was significantly decreased at post retraining. Second, Cortisol level was significantly increased at post retraining and Stress Index was significantly decreased at post retraining. There are some important finding on this study. Ear Position and Stress Index was significantly decreased than Cortisol level was significantly increased after training. This result do not match expectation. Also, Cortisol level is very lower than normal range. The race period affect a Cortisol level lowered. It seem that the training session to have higher Cortisol level even though the level is not to reach at normal level. There are more further study to solve on these relationships should continue.

Türkiye’de Yarış Atlarında Tendinitis ile Etiyolojik Faktörler Arasındaki İlişki: Yarışların Etkisi

Çalışmanın amacı, Türkiye’deki safkan İngiliz ve Arap ırkı yarış atlarında sıklıkla karşımıza çıkan tendinitis olgularında (metakarpal fleksor tendo lezyonlarında), atların sakatlanma öncesi 3 aylık dönemde katıldığı yarışlara ilişkin muhtemel etiyolojik faktörleri değerlendirerek, elde edilen bulguların prognostik önemlerinin ortaya konulmasıdır. Çalışma kapsamında, metakarpal fleksor tendolarında tendinitis veya peritendinitis saptanan 118 safkan İngiliz (n=62, % 52,5) ve Arap (n=56, % 47,5) ırkı atlara ait, toplam 120 olgu değerlendirildi. Bu amaçla, anamnez alınmasını takiben, klinik olarak genel ve topallık tanısına yönelik özel muayeneler yapıldı. Ardından palmar metakarpal bölgeden ultrasonografik muayeneler yapılarak kesin tanı konuldu. İstatistikî değerlendirmelerde SPSS 13.0 programı kullanıldı. Olgulardan 102’sinde (% 85,0) tendinitis ve 18’inde (% 15,0) peritendinitis saptandı. Türkiye Jokey Kulübü web sitesinde yer alan yarış kayıtları irdelenerek, çalışma materyalini oluşturan atların sakatlanma öncesi 3 aylık dönemde katıldığı yarışlara ilişkin hipodromlar, mevsim ve yarış sezonu, pist zeminleri, koşu yönleri, yarış sayıları ve koşulan mesafeler incelendi. Bu faktörlerin tendinitis‑peritendinitis insidansında istatistiksel olarak önemli etkileri olup olmadığı değerlendirildi. Elde edilen bulgulara göre, sakatlanma öncesi 3 aylık dönemde koşulan pist zeminlerinin, yarış sayısı ve mesafelerinin tendinitis oluşumunda etkili olmadığı (p > 0,05), ancak bu dönemde koşulan toplam yarış sayısı ve mesafesi arttıkça, atın tendinitisi daha şiddetli geçirme olasılığı yüksek bulundu (p < 0,05). Bu yarışlardaki koşuların yönleri ile etkilenen ekstremite ve lezyon yerleşimi arasında anlamlı bir ilişki olmadığı belirlendi (p > 0,05). Bununla birlikte, Ülkemizde at yarışlarına ilişkin detaylı verilerin yanı sıra bu yarış atlarının tüm medikal geçmişlerine ve antrenman bilgilerine de ulaşılabilecek kapsamlı bir kayıt sistemi-veri tabanı oluşturulmasının, hastalıklara karşı alınabilecek çeşitli profilaktik önlemlerin belirlenmesinde büyük katkı sağlayacağı sonucuna varıldı.

A carbon horse race: abatement subsidies vs. permit trading in Switzerland

ABSTRACT Swiss climate policy consists of three regulatory instruments for greenhouse gas emissions reduction: A CO levy, the Swiss Emissions Trading System (CH EHS) and an additional program for medium-sized plants that is labeled ‘nonEHS’ and consists of command-and-control elements plus a sizeable abatement subsidy. Our paper informs about this tripartite climate policy, which is unique in the international context. Second, we estimate the differential impact of the CH EHS and the nonEHS program on plants' emissions. Our empirical strategy exploits a policy change in 2013 that instituted a mandatory emissions trading system for a subset of previously regulated plants. We find that the nonEHS outperforms the CH EHS for a minority of plants, but that on average, the two programs result in similar abatement efforts despite very different financial incentives. Plants that previously engaged in abatement efforts continue to do so even after the financial incentives were reduced by an order of magnitude. Key policy insights We find similar pollution abatement for plants regulated by an emissions trading system relative to plants receiving an abatement subsidy in Switzerland This is surprising given that the allowance price in the CH EHS is an order of magnitude lower than the abatement subsidy Emissions reductions in the ETS are especially pronounced for large plants, and for plants that had engaged in significant abatement in the past

Should crude oil price volatility receive more attention than the price of crude oil? An empirical investigation via a large‐scale out‐of‐sample forecast evaluation of US macroeconomic data

AbstractApart from the percentage change in the price of crude oil, there is a growing tradition of using various nonlinear transformations of the price of crude oil to forecast real gross domestic product growth rates, equity returns, inflation and other macroeconomic variables. This study attempts to quantify the additional potential predictive power afforded by crude oil price volatility relative to widely used crude oil price‐based variables for more than 300 US macroeconomic time series at the monthly and the quarterly sampling frequency. We observe that regressions employing crude oil price realized volatility and crude oil price realized semivolatilities tend to afford a more consistent pattern of out‐of‐sample prediction gains relative to competitors using well‐known crude oil price measures and the autoregressive benchmark at the quarterly and monthly sampling frequency. While it is somewhat harder to find evidence of finite‐sample predictive gains relative to the benchmark, the evidence is stronger with respect to population‐level predictability 1 quarter (1 month) ahead for the model with crude oil price realized semivolatilities across the considered data and models. Furthermore, point (density) forecasts employing crude oil price realized volatility tend to be more accurate than corresponding forecasts produced under the crude oil price‐based predictive regressions in a horse race.

A system for simulating the kinematics and measuring the impact force from riding whips used in Thoroughbred horseracing

Thirty horse racing whips of four different designs were tested to measure dynamic impact force and compared using a specially designed mechanical testing device to simulate the whipping action of a jockey during racing. The whips tested included designs used in Thoroughbred horse racing in North America, which meet the design criteria established by the Association of Racing Commissioners International (ARCI) model rules, as well as the most common whip used in British horse racing. The objective of the device was to allow comparisons to be made between peak impact loads resulting from different whip designs. A high peak dynamic force on a horse’s shoulder or hind quarter may result in injuries, such as welts. The testing device contains a planar three-bar, open mechanical linkage loaded by torsion springs to model the arm motion of a jockey. The whip strikes a flat plate covered by an elastomeric pad. The energy input is replicated during the simulated impact. A single axis dynamic load cell under the loading plate and three single-turn precision potentiometers located at each joint of the three-arm mechanical system measure impact forces and relative angular positions, respectively. Force measurements are compared from the face of each whip and the edge or seam where applicable. In addition to the flap design, other physical differences between whip designs included mass, shaft length, shaft stiffness, flap cushion thickness/compression factor, flap surface area, and flap seam area. Statistically significant impact force differences were found between flap face and flap seam impact orientations, with higher impact forces delivered by the flap face. Significant differences were also found in impact forces between the three whip styles with seams.

Plantation urbanism: Legacy, property and policing in Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville, Kentucky is one of many cities throughout the Southern United States that still celebrates the brutal legacy of plantation culture. From an economy dominated by the plantation dynasties of bourbon, horse racing and tobacco, to the centering of bourbon whiskey as a culturally significant economic development engine and tourist attraction, to the city’s flagship event, the Kentucky Derby containing elements of a memorial pageant to antebellum plantation regimes and their culture. This paper documents the legacy and consequences of urban redevelopment by Louisville’s plantation dynasties in the Russell neighborhood and the connections between investment, surveillance and policing in the murder of Breonna Taylor. We will define the concepts of plantation capitalism and plantation urbanism as components of racial capitalism and monopoly capitalism that originated and are kept alive in the Southern US. This paper will explore how the legacy of plantation regimes reproduces a particular social management system that reinvents itself through economic diversification in real estate, planning, policing and surveillance, that we call plantation urbanism. The Russell neighborhood in Louisville is currently experiencing massive investment through public and private funding. We use examples of how private developers launch nonprofits to access philanthropic capital, and state support of private investment to illustrate how plantation dynasties hoard resources and exercise political control over time. This paper will document the historical and material forces of plantation regimes that drive state-led gentrification to create the unhousing of Black residents and the interlocking relationships of institutional actors in that process of government, philanthropy, the nonprofit industrial complex and the police.

Optimal speed in Thoroughbred horse racing.

The objective of this work is to provide a mathematical analysis on how a Thoroughbred horse should regulate its speed over the course of a race to optimize performance. Because Thoroughbred horses are not capable of running the whole race at top speed, determining what pace to set and when to unleash the burst of speed is essential. Our model relies on mechanics, energetics (both aerobic and anaerobic) and motor control. It is a system of coupled ordinary differential equations on the velocity, the propulsive force and the anaerobic energy, that leads to an optimal control problem that we solve. In order to identify the parameters meaningful for Thoroughbred horses, we use velocity data on races in Chantilly (France) provided by France Galop, the French governing body of flat horse racing in France. Our numerical simulations of performance optimization then provide the optimal speed along the race, the oxygen uptake evolution in a race, as well as the energy or the propulsive force. It also predicts how the horse has to change its effort and velocity according to the topography (altitude and bending) of the track.

The best way to win a horse race? Mathematicians may have the answer

The best way to win a horse race? Mathematicians may have the answer

Extended spectrum \u03b2 lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae shedding by race horses in Ontario, Canada

BackgroundWe aimed to investigate the prevalence, molecular epidemiology and prevalence factors for Extended Spectrum β-Lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (ESBL-E) shedding by race horses. A cross-sectional study was performed involving fecal samples collected from 169 Thoroughbred horses that were housed at a large racing facility in Ontario, Canada. Samples were enriched, plated on selective plates, sub-cultured to obtain pure cultures and ESBL production was confirmed. Bacterial species were identified and antibiotic susceptibility profiles were assessed. E. coli sequence types (ST) and ESBL genes were determined using multilocus sequence type (MLST) and sequencing. Whole genome sequencing was performed to isolates harboring CTX-M-1 gene. Medical records were reviewed and associations were investigated.ResultsAdult horses (n = 169), originating from 16 different barns, were sampled. ESBL-E shedding rate was 12% (n = 21/169, 95% CI 8–18%); 22 ESBL-E isolates were molecularly studied (one horse had two isolates). The main species was E. coli (91%) and the major ESBL gene was CTX-M-1 (54.5%). Ten different E. coli STs were identified. Sixty-four percent of total isolates were defined as multi-drug resistant. ESBL-E shedding horses originated from 8/16 different barns; whereas 48% (10/21) of them originated from one specific barn. Overall, antibiotic treatment in the previous month was found as a prevalence factor for ESBL-E shedding (p = 0.016, prevalence OR = 27.72, 95% CI 1.845–416.555).ConclusionsOur findings demonstrate the potential diverse reservoir of ESBL-E in Thoroughbred race horses. Multi-drug resistant bacteria should be further investigated to improve antibiotic treatment regimens and equine welfare.