{"id":6402,"date":"2013-11-15T01:44:59","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T18:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=6402"},"modified":"2019-03-20T17:55:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T23:55:19","slug":"researchers-study-sesamoid-bone-shape-differences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/trainers-corner\/ground-conditions\/researchers-study-sesamoid-bone-shape-differences\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Study Sesamoid Bone Shape Differences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The training and racing of 2-year-old Thoroughbreds has always been a source of debate in the racing world due to concerns that exerting young skeletons might make horses more likely to injure themselves. But recent study results from Italian researchers suggest that at least one set of bones in Thoroughbreds might not impacted by training as juveniles: the sesamoids.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehorse.com\/articles\/32834\/researchers-study-sesamoid-bone-shape-differences\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read complete article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The training and racing of 2-year-old Thoroughbreds has always been a source of debate in the racing world due to concerns that exerting young skeletons might make horses more likely to injure themselves. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,58,57,6,64,61,16,19,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloodhorse","category-equine-diseases","category-feeding-and-caring-for-foals","category-ground-conditions","category-hoof-care","category-joint-problems","category-race-horses","category-soundness","category-veterinary-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6402"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8366,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402\/revisions\/8366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}