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- Title
Equilíbrio de cavalos da raça Quarto de Milha participantes da modalidade de três tambores por meio de proporções corporais.
- Authors
Donofre, Ana Carolina; Prospero Puoli Filho, José Nicolau; de Paula Ferreira, Iuri Emmanuel; Dias Silveira da Mota, Marcílio; Chiquitelli Neto, Marcos
- Abstract
Based on the concept that horses have balanced symmetry between its anatomical regions, the aim of this study was to introduce a method of assessing the balance of equines through body proportions. Altogether twelve linear measurements, using metric tape, were measured in 234 horses Quarter Horses for evidence of barrel racing. From these measurements were built nine body proportions, each one given by the ratio of two specific measures, and the effects of sex, weight, age and degree of blood on the balance were evaluated. To check the significance tests we used the F statistic, considering P<0.05. It was found that the linear measurements ML2, ML3 and ML5 were mainly responsible for the disproportionality of the horses evaluated. The effect of sex was significant (P<0.05) for four proportions (R1, R3, R4 and R9) and females were more distant from the concept of balance than males.
- Subjects
QUARTER horse; BARREL racing; HORSE conformation; WEIGHTS &; measures of horses; HORSE age; LENGTH measurement
- Publication
Ciência Rural, 2014, Vol 44, Issue 2, p327
- ISSN
0103-8478
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/S0103-84782014000200021