Contents

• Johnny Murtagh- TopSpec Trainer of the Quarter

  Lissa Oliver talks to Johnny Murtagh whose stable has been in top form this summer.

• Nicolò Simondi - trainer profile

  Franco Raimondi profiles Nicolò Simondi who became a Classic winning trainer when Auyantepui, landed the Gp2 Oaks d’Italia at San Siro.

• Can nutrition influence EIPH?

  Catherine Rudenko investigates alternative and supportive therapies as trainers seek to find other means of reducing the risk or severity of EIPH.

• The dominant limb

  Can we train a completely symmetrical horse? Georgie White investigates this very interesting theory.

• The benefit of using ‘yearling rollers’

  Dr. Russell Mackechnie-Guire asks if aroller is a harmless piece of equipment or has it been previously overlooked?

• Sales protocols across Europe this autumn

  Alysen Miller explains how auction houses have embraced changes to their business

  practices in order to keep the show on the road with the global bloodstock calendar thrown into disarray by the COVID-19.

• Monitoring bowed tendons

  Sarah Plevin reviews different treatment options for ‘bowed tendons’ and amongst those a new ultrasound technology called ultrasound tissue characterisation.

• Conformation - factors for racing ability

  Judy Wardrope examines which factors might increase the chances to pick a future

  star on the racecourse.

• Without Prejudice – how anti- doping rules leave trainers at risk

  Lissa Oliver points out that it is time to look at whether Europe’s anti-doping

  rules protect the integrity of the sport and looks into the fragility of the licencing

  system in the face of integrity accusations, particularly when so many recent breaches

  of anti-doping rules have absolved the trainer of any responsibility.

• Gerald Leigh Memorial Lectures 2020 - minimising risk from equine infectious disease

  Celia Marr condenses this year’s Gerald Leigh Memorial Lectures and how it

  will hopefully help support education on equine infectious disease.

• News from the EMHF

  It is time to celebrate - The European and Mediterranean Horseracing Federation is

  10 years old. Dr. Paull Khan tells the story about the first decade.

• Will prize money everreturn to pre-COVID-19 levels?

  Lissa Oliver looks into the various pots of prize money and the racing authorities’

  recovery plans to be able to return to pre-COVID.

• Thoroughbred Tales - showcasing the good work of the unsung heroes of racing

  Sally Anne Grassick explains Rebecca Menzies’s own “Thoroughbred Tale ‘’ when there were celebrations in order when Stormy Girl provided Rebecca with a first ever Black Type success.