Sport / athletic / performance horse — diet & nutrition management (Europe PMC)
Source: 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).
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Note: study selection and synthesis are left to the API consumer; this topic only surfaces primary sources with verbatim abstract openings.
Source text: pdf-raw/evidence/europepmc_evidence_equine_performance_diet_2026-07-22.txt (Europe PMC REST + PubMed efetch, 2026-07-22).