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Young horse performance testing is an important part of the SWB breeding programme and contributes data to the genetic evaluation. Assessed traits from these tests have been shown to be useful indicator traits of performance in show jumping and dressage, but their associations with orthopaedic health have not previously been investigated.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Objectives<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>To study the associations between assessed traits from young horse tests and orthopaedic diagnoses, and to investigate if such traits can be useful as indicator traits of future orthopaedic health in SWB horses.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Study Design<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Retrospective cohort study.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Insurance data from 5991 SWB horses between 4 and 14\u2009years, born in 2010\u20132020, and assessed at a young horse test were included. Horses were classified as jumping or dressage horses. The data were analysed with survival analysis, using the number of days from birth to first orthopaedic diagnosis as time scale.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      High scores for the numerically scored trait \u2018trot at hand\u2019 were significantly associated with less risk of orthopaedic diagnoses for both jumping and dressage horses (\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009&lt;\u20090.05 and\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009&lt;\u20090.001, respectively). Also, horses with greater height at the withers had a significantly higher risk of having orthopaedic diagnoses. Eleven of 48 linearly scored traits were significantly associated with orthopaedic diagnoses.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Main Limitations<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The insurance data may have uncertainties and will not fully describe the prevalence of orthopaedic diagnoses in the SWB population. Additionally, pre\u2010selection of horses attending young horse tests may introduce some bias in the data on assessed traits.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Relatively few traits were significantly associated with orthopaedic diagnoses, suggesting that traits currently assessed at young horse tests have limited value as indicator traits of orthopaedic health.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1002\/evj.70331","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,23]],"date-time":"2026-09-23T14:21:12Z","timestamp":1790173272000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Phenotypic associations between young horse assessments and orthopaedic diagnoses in insured Swedish Warmblood horses"],"prefix":"10.1002","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2685-4325","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sandra","family":"Bonow","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Animal Biosciences Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences  Uppsala Sweden"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5769-3958","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Elin","family":"Hernlund","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Animal Biosciences Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences  Uppsala Sweden"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3357-5065","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Susanne","family":"Eriksson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Animal Biosciences Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences  Uppsala Sweden"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5154-8146","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Erling","family":"Strandberg","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Animal Biosciences Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences  Uppsala Sweden"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7752-5687","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"\u00c5sa Gelinder","family":"Viklund","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Animal Biosciences Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences  Uppsala Sweden"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_14_2_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.prevetmed.2013.09.013"},{"key":"e_1_2_14_3_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.tvjl.2009.03.020"},{"key":"e_1_2_14_4_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/S0301-6226(99)00126-8"},{"key":"e_1_2_14_5_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.prevetmed.2025.106596"},{"key":"e_1_2_14_6_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1186\/1751-0147-55-34"},{"key":"e_1_2_14_7_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jevs.2013.09.002"},{"key":"e_1_2_14_8_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/jbg.12311"},{"key":"e_1_2_14_9_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.livsci.2024.105438"},{"key":"e_1_2_14_10_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/jbg.12764"},{"key":"e_1_2_14_11_1","unstructured":"Universal Equine Life Number. 2025. 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