Racehorses perform just as well with female jockeys as males in training and races, per analysis of Australian race yard

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Racehorses perform just as well with female jockeys as males in training and races, per analysis of Australian race yard

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0273310

Article Title: Does sex of the jockey influence racehorse physiology and performance

Author Countries: UK, France, Belgium

Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this work. Arioneo Ltd provided all data used in this study but had no role in study design or analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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PLoS ONE

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0273310 

ARTICLE TITLE

Does sex of the jockey influence racehorse physiology and performance

ARTICLE PUBLICATION DATE

31-Aug-2022

COI STATEMENT

The authors received no specific funding for this work. Charlotte Schrurs is self-funding her PhD. All data were collected by Arioneo Ltd. David S Gardner is funded by The School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, University of Nottingham. Guillaume Dubois is an employee of Arioneo Ltd and had no influence on the reporting of results as presented. Emmanuelle Van Erck-Westergren is an Equine Sports Medicine specialist and consultant for Arioneo Ltd. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.