Affiliation:
1. Vitebsk State Academy of Veterinary Medicine
Abstract
The athletic potential of horses depends on the efficiency of the animal’s use of energy produced through aerobic and anaerobic metabolic processes, not excluding other factors. In this regard, the aim of the study was to determine the relationship between the COX4I2 gene and the athletic performance of Trakehner and Hanoverian horses. Data obtained show that Trakehner and Hanoverian horses with the COX4I2ТТ genotype are superior to horses with the COX4I2СС and COX4I2СТ genotypes in trotting,
cantering, jumping, work capacity, as well as in moving and jumping abilities at dressage, triathlon.
Publisher
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus