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The award-winning Irish tech company EquiTrace, in collaboration with the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (HISA), is pleased to announce the integration of its award-winning app with the HISA Portal.
Horse & Hound has been reporting for some time on contamination causing positive dope tests. Recent research looked at the causes of positive tests in racing and FEI competition, and what could be done to prevent such incidents.
Tech advances to benefit equine welfare and traceability. Knowing where horses are and what happens to them throughout their lives has always been inseparable from equine welfare, and traceability is in the spotlight more than ever before.
On Monday September 20, the Irish application won the prize for the best start-up as well as the new prize for the best veterinary technology, at the 11th Innovation Arena ceremony.
An app used by top Irish racehorse trainer Dermot Weld that identifies horses and stores their medical records has been developed by two Kildare-based vets who say it will help reduce human error.
Using EquiTrace dramatically reduces paperwork, saving the cost of two full time salaries according to Considine. There are just under 19,000 horses already on the EquiTrace database.
The overall winner at this year’s Innovation Arena Awards was Kerry’s Brandon Bioscience, while Kildare-based EquiTrace took the prize for best start-up.
“There was a lack of technology in the equine space. Nobody has a laptop in the barn, but everyone has a smartphone in their pocket. We knew that technology could be an incredibly effective way to record and give first-hand knowledge to people about horses.”
