Protequus and Exceed Equine Announce New Research Alliance to Protect the Welfare of Racehorses

Protequus and Exceed Equine announce a new strategic alliance to leverage the NIGHTWATCH smart halter and advances in data science to protect the welfare of racehorses at Exceed Equine’s cutting-edge research, training, and rehabilitation center.

For decades racehorse trainers have relied upon past performance coupled with subjective and anecdotal information to gain a winning edge. However, today through advances in AI (artificial intelligence), biosensors, and IoT (internet of things) technology, we have the ability to apply objective insight into an animal’s wellbeing to predict future outcomes. Through this new research initiative Protequus and Exceed Equine, two respected leaders in the field, hope to better understand the impact of traditional vs contemporary training methods on a racehorse’s recovery by examining distress levels and quality of rest post-exercise and overnight.

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“Protecting the welfare of horses has always been at the heart of what we do at Protequus. Through our partnership with Exceed Equine we now have an opportunity to extend animal welfare protection to the track,” said Jeffrey R. Schab, Founder & CEO of Protequus. “In the near future, it is our hope that post-exercise analysis of an animal’s distress, rest, and recovery, will enable all of us the ability to prevent injury, mitigate breakdown, and predict on-track performance” explains Jeffrey.

“The ability to measure overnight heart and respiratory recovery rates against a multitude of training regimens provides further insight into the advanced training and rehabilitation programs being implemented at Exceed Equine,” states Exceed Equine’s CEO Michael Calderone. “This type of data compliments our forward-thinking processes and will allow us to further explore/develop additional advanced training and rehabilitation programs that will be applied first to our own stable of racehorses and, if successful, introduced to our clients’ horses and distributed through our retail distribution channels.”

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