PMID- 32380681
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20200928
IS  - 2076-2615 (Print)
IS  - 2076-2615 (Electronic)
IS  - 2076-2615 (Linking)
VI  - 10
IP  - 5
DP  - 2020 May 5
TI  - Patterns of Racing and Career Duration of Racing Greyhounds in New Zealand.
LID - 10.3390/ani10050796 [doi]
LID - 796
AB  - The welfare and wastage of racing greyhounds is a topic of public concern. Little 
      is published about the racing patterns of these dogs in New Zealand. The aim of 
      this study is to describe the pattern of greyhound racing in New Zealand. Data on 
      all race starts between 1 August 2011 and 25 March 2018 were supplied by 
      Greyhound Racing New Zealand. A cohort was created containing dogs that had a 
      racing career between 1 August 2013 and 31 July 2017. Data were collated within a 
      customized Microsoft Access database from electronic records of all racing starts 
      for every dog within the 2013-2016 racing seasons. For this cohort of racing 
      dogs, there were 97,973 race starts across 22,277 races involving 2393 individual 
      greyhounds. The median number of days between racing starts was 7 days 
      (inter-quartile range (IQR): 4-10 days). The median career length was 424 days 
      (IQR: 206-647 days) and the median number of racing starts throughout a racing 
      career was 35 (IQR: 16-59 starts). Dogs of similar ability finished their career 
      at a similar age.
FAU - Palmer, Anna L
AU  - Palmer AL
AD  - School of Veterinary Science, Massey University, Private Bag 11-222, 4442 
      Palmerston North, New Zealand.
FAU - Bolwell, Charlotte F
AU  - Bolwell CF
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-9995-8232
AD  - School of Veterinary Science, Massey University, Private Bag 11-222, 4442 
      Palmerston North, New Zealand.
FAU - Stafford, Kevin J
AU  - Stafford KJ
AD  - School of Agriculture and Environment, Massey University, Private Bag 11-222, 
      4442 Palmerston North, New Zealand.
FAU - Gal, Arnon
AU  - Gal A
AD  - Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, 
      University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1008 W Hazelwood Drive, IL 61802, 
      USA.
FAU - Rogers, Chris W
AU  - Rogers CW
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-4253-1825
AD  - School of Veterinary Science, Massey University, Private Bag 11-222, 4442 
      Palmerston North, New Zealand.
AD  - School of Agriculture and Environment, Massey University, Private Bag 11-222, 
      4442 Palmerston North, New Zealand.
LA  - eng
GR  - Unknown/Greyhound Racing New Zealand/
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20200505
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Animals (Basel)
JT  - Animals : an open access journal from MDPI
JID - 101635614
PMC - PMC7278431
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - career length
OT  - greyhound
OT  - greyhound racing
OT  - racing pattern
COIS- This research received funding, however, the authors declare no conflict of 
      interest. The current study uses historical data from the 2013-2016 racing 
      seasons. Greyhound Racing New Zealand provided the spreadsheet from a database 
      that is managed by an external statistics company. While the funders provided 
      access to the database, they had no role in the design of the study, analysis of 
      the data, interpretation of the data, writing of the manuscript, or in the 
      decision to publish the results.
EDAT- 2020/05/10 06:00
MHDA- 2020/05/10 06:01
PMCR- 2020/05/05
CRDT- 2020/05/09 06:00
PHST- 2020/03/03 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2020/04/20 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2020/04/28 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2020/05/09 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2020/05/10 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2020/05/10 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2020/05/05 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - ani10050796 [pii]
AID - animals-10-00796 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/ani10050796 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Animals (Basel). 2020 May 5;10(5):796. doi: 10.3390/ani10050796.