A Prospective Study of Presale Radiographs of Thoroughbred Yearlings

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Author(s): Melissa Jackson, Andrew Vizard, Garry Anderson, Andrew Clarke, John Mattoon, Roger Lavelle, Nola Lester, Todd Smithenson, Chris Whitton

Language: English
Pages: 159

Foreword......Page 4
Acknowledgments......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Tables......Page 8
Figures......Page 11
Results/key findings......Page 14
Implications and Recommendations......Page 15
Yearling Auction Sales......Page 17
Veterinary Examination......Page 18
The Radiograph Repository System......Page 19
Australia’s Radiograph Repository Requirements......Page 20
How Many Radiographic Views?......Page 21
Stifle......Page 22
Sesamoiditis......Page 23
Lesion Significance......Page 24
Conclusions......Page 25
Horse Identifying Information......Page 27
Race Performance......Page 28
Sale Entries......Page 29
Sale Results......Page 30
Exported Horses......Page 32
2 and 3-year-old Race Performance......Page 33
Sale Results......Page 34
2 and 3-year-old Race Performance......Page 35
Study Population......Page 36
Conclusions......Page 37
Horses......Page 38
Horse Signalment......Page 39
Overall Race Results......Page 40
Number of Race Starts......Page 42
Prize Money Earned Greater Than Estimated Costs......Page 43
Prize Money Earned Greater Than Combined Estimated Costs and Purchase Price......Page 44
Discussion......Page 45
Conclusions......Page 46
Radiograph Quality......Page 47
Orthopaedic Lesion Reporting......Page 48
Stifles......Page 49
Orthopaedic Findings Grouping for Analysis......Page 50
Film Quality......Page 52
Intra-radiologist......Page 53
Inter-radiologist......Page 54
Intra-radiologist......Page 55
Inter-radiologist......Page 63
Discussion......Page 67
Conclusions......Page 69
Statistical Analysis......Page 70
Radiographic Set......Page 71
Dorsomedial Palmarolateral Oblique View of the Carpus......Page 74
Conclusions......Page 77
Reporting of Orthopaedic Findings......Page 78
Fore Feet......Page 79
Fore Fetlocks and Proximal Sesamoids......Page 81
Carpi......Page 85
Hind Fetlocks and Proximal Sesamoids......Page 86
Tarsi......Page 88
Stifles......Page 89
Fore Feet......Page 91
Fore Fetlocks and Sesamoids......Page 92
Hind Fetlocks and Sesamoids......Page 93
Stifles......Page 94
Conclusions......Page 95
Surgery Reports......Page 96
Orthopaedic Findings......Page 97
Race Data......Page 99
Overall performance results......Page 100
Lesions associated with reduced performance......Page 101
Lesions with no association with performance or associated with improved performance......Page 105
Surgery reports......Page 106
Lesions associated with reduced performance......Page 149
Lesions with no effect on performance......Page 150
Lesions with not enough cases for analysis......Page 151
Conclusions......Page 152
References......Page 153