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Scientists in Poland have discovered that intense exercise changes the amount of bacteria in a horse s digestive system. Exercise limits the amount of oxygen intestinal mucosa receives, which could stimulate bacterial growth in the digestive system so that more nutrients can be metabolized.
Drs. Wanda Górniak, Paulina Cholewińska, Natalia Szeligowska, Magdalena Wołoszyńska, Maria Soroko and Katarzyna Czyż used seventeen 3-year-old racehorses in training at Partynice Race Course for their study. All the horses were fed the same forage and were trained with only trot and canter work. The team asked the horses to race just over a mile (1,900 meters), and took fecal samples before and 48 hours after the work. The horses had not been worked at speed for two weeks prior to the study.
Intense exercise affects the make-up of gut bacteria in Thoroughbred racehorses, researchers have found.
Scientists with the Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences in Poland found that intense exercise significantly influenced the abundance of Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes groups.
The study involved 17 healthy three-year-old Thoroughbred racehorses trained at Partynice Race Course in Poland. Their daily training regime involved trotting and cantering.
All were fed the same forage.
The exercise test used in the study was participation in a 1900-metre race at the course.
Fecal samples were collected for analysis from each horse before the race, and 48 hours after, for comparison.