Gelded First/Second Run

by Simon Walton

A gelding is a castrated horse.

Castration, as well as the elimination of hormonally driven behaviour associated with a stallion, allows a male horse to be calmer and better-behaved, making the animal quieter, gentler and potentially more suitable for racing.

You often hear that a Gelding operation can improve a horses performance, especially on its first run after the operation therefore, to enable you to determine if this change can be considered positive or negative under different race conditions, we have included a feature in the system builder to enable you to filter your research by 1^st and 2^nd run since the horse has been gelded.

The feature can be found on the Horse 2 tab in the system builder:

Depending on your area of research, select the appropriate check mark and other fields in the system builder then execute to see the results.