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Methods: Thirty-nine adult American Foxhound dogs (32 intact males, 7 spayed females; age: 6.2 \u00b1 3.1 yr; BW: 36.3 \u00b1 5.3 kg) were allotted to a standard performance diet (CTRL) or NUTRO\u00ae Natural Choice\u00ae Adult High Endurance Formula (TEST). After 80 d in the study, blood samples were collected prior to (0 h), and 3 h and 25 h post-exercise (average: 17.7 km run over 2\u20133 h). Plasma samples of the 10 top performers of each treatment group were analyzed for untargeted metabolite profiling. Results: Of the 566 named metabolites identified, &gt;200 and &gt;185 metabolites were impacted (p &lt; 0.05) by exercise and diet, respectively. Principal component analysis indicated distinct clustering by diet. Random forest analysis highlighted several metabolites having a high degree of predictive accuracy based on diet and exercise, with most related to amino acid, lipid, xenobiotic, and cofactor and vitamin metabolism. Relating to exercise, glycolytic end-products and citric acid cycle intermediates were increased at 3 h post-exercise. Similarly, tocopherols and omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids were higher in dogs fed TEST than those fed CTRL during recovery, indicating a lower oxidative stress and anti-inflammatory response. 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