{"topic_id":"evidence_equine_performance_diet","category":"evidence","context":"---\ntopic_id: evidence_equine_performance_diet\ncategory: evidence\ntitle: \"Sport / athletic / performance horse — diet & nutrition management (Europe PMC)\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"Europe PMC REST search (europepmc.org), query '(sport horse OR athletic horse OR racehorse OR performance horse) AND (diet OR nutrition OR feeding OR management)', 3539 hits, pulled 2026-07-22\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/evidence/europepmc_evidence_equine_performance_diet_2026-07-22.txt\ndate_parsed: 2026-07-22\ntokens_estimated: 260\nverification:\n  method: substring_match\n  claims: 30\n  passed: 30\n  date: 2026-07-22\n---\n\n# Sport / athletic / performance horse — diet & nutrition management (Europe PMC)\n\nSource: Europe PMC (Europe PubMed Central) REST search, query \"(sport horse OR athletic horse OR racehorse OR performance horse) AND (diet OR nutrition OR feeding OR management)\", 3539 hits (2026-07-22). Each entry is a first-hand peer-reviewed study; the abstract opening is quoted verbatim from the publisher abstract. 6 representative studies below (filtered for species + nutrition relevance).\n\n1. PMID 42278037 — Industry Perceptions of Thoroughbred Racehorse Emotions and Quality of Life: Implications for the Development of an Equine Quality of Life Assessment Tool. (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI, 2026). Abstract (opening): Understanding how horses experience their lives is essential for improving their welfare, particularly in high-performance industries such as horseracing. Quality of Life (QoL) fra\n2. PMID 42121780 — Measuring Chuckwagon Racehorse Movement Asymmetry Before and After Racing Using Wearable GNSS-IMUs: A Preliminary Study. (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI, 2026). Abstract (opening): In Chuckwagon racing, teams of four Thoroughbred horses pull wagons at high speeds. Movement symmetry is a key locomotion metric linked to force production, racing direction, and l\n3. PMID 42328694 — Integrative Advances in Equine Genomics From Reference Assemblies to Evolutionary History and Key Traits. (Evolutionary applications, 2026). Abstract (opening): Horses are major domestic animals and cultural symbols that have accompanied humans for millennia. They underpin transport, agriculture, warfare and sport, and also provide a model\n4. PMID 42028318 — Opportunities for agency in domestic horses: Applying the behavioural domain to increase equine welfare. (Animal welfare (South Mimms, England), 2026). Abstract (opening): Giving animals the opportunity to exercise agency can improve their welfare, but horse owners and researchers may not be aware of the growing body of agency research in other anima\n5. PMID 42003943 — Ethological and clinical evaluation of the welfare of horses in draft competitions in Spain. (Frontiers in veterinary science, 2026). Abstract (opening): Draft and pulling horses are used in a traditional equestrian sport in the Valencian Community (Spain), in which horses must pull a cart loaded with a weight equivalent to twice th\n6. PMID 42238714 — Genetic variability and associations of Trakehner and other horse populations in Lithuania. (Archives animal breeding, 2026). Abstract (opening): To obtain genetic parameters relevant for the management of animal genetic resources, this study provides a comparative characterization of the Trakehner (TRAK) horse population in\n\nNote: study selection and synthesis are left to the API consumer; this topic only surfaces primary sources with verbatim abstract openings.\n\nSource text: `pdf-raw/evidence/europepmc_evidence_equine_performance_diet_2026-07-22.txt` (Europe PMC REST + PubMed efetch, 2026-07-22).\n","sources":[],"tokens_estimated":260,"generated_at":null,"tip":"Use /api/v1/topics to discover more topics. /api/v1/nutrient for precise single-point queries. /api/v1/cross_compare for 2-3 standard comparisons."}