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In human medicine, thermography is used to detect heat emitted by the foot when it comes in contact with a flat surface to detect the abnormalities of the foot balance. The hypothesis states that the thermal pattern of the hoof print in Warmblood horses is detectable and it does not vary among the four limbs in leisure and cross-country Warmblood horses in terms of mean temperature of the hoof print surface. A pilot study was conducted to investigate the accuracy of thermography in temperature detection of the hoof print and to investigate the occurrence of possible differences in the mean value of six selected areas and whether there are any differences in the mean temperature of the hoof print between leisure and cross-country Warmblood horses. Methods: The study included sixty non-lame Warmblood horses with all limbs taken into consideration (n = 240). The selection criteria for the horses were: no alterations in posture and no muscle group asymmetry during visual examination, no lateral or medial deviation of the carpus or hock, no reaction to the flexion tests, negative reactions to the hoof tester, no lameness during walking, trotting or lunging, no anti-inflammatory medication in the last three weeks prior to examination and rectal temperature between 37 \u00b0C and 38 \u00b0C. The hoof print of each hoof was measured with the horse in the standing position, all four limbs on the ground, using a FLIR E50 thermal camera. Six areas of temperature from the hoof print were taken into consideration, and for each of them, the mean value was identified using FLIR Tools software for photo interpretation. The One-Way ANOVA test was used to test the differences between the mean temperatures obtained for each selected area from all limbs and to compare the hoof print temperature values between the leisure horses and cross-country horses. Data were statistically processed using SAS Studio. Results: Thermography can detect the temperature emitted by the hoof but the thermal patterns of the hoof print show no difference for all four studied limbs. No significant statistical differences were noticed between the mean temperatures identified for each studied area. Also, there were no statistical differences between the mean temperature of the selected areas from the forelimbs and hindlimbs from the horses used for leisure and those used for cross-country. Based on this aspect, the mean temperature of one selected area can be determined in any of the four limbs, without visible variations. Conclusions: Thermography can detect the hoof print on a flat surface and the mean temperature for each studied area can be proposed as a reference temperature value. There were no differences in the mean temperature of the hoofprint between leisure and cross-country Warmblood Horses. Further investigations are required to clarify whether there are any differences in the thermal pattern of hoof prints from other breeds or from horses with musculoskeletal conditions.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/vetsci10070470","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,7,19]],"date-time":"2023-07-19T00:54:01Z","timestamp":1689728041000},"page":"470","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Thermographic Image of the Hoof Print in Leisure and Cross-Country Warmblood Horses: A Pilot Study"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Cristian","family":"Zaha","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Surgery Clinic, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Life Sciences \u201cKing Michael I\u201d, 300645 Timisoara, Romania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Larisa","family":"Schuszler","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Surgery Clinic, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Life Sciences \u201cKing Michael I\u201d, 300645 Timisoara, Romania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3929-845X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Roxana","family":"Dascalu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Surgery Clinic, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Life Sciences \u201cKing Michael I\u201d, 300645 Timisoara, Romania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Paula","family":"Nistor","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Surgery Clinic, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Life Sciences \u201cKing Michael I\u201d, 300645 Timisoara, Romania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Tiana","family":"Florea","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Dermatology Department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Life Sciences \u201cKing Mihai I\u201d, 300645 Timisoara, Romania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ciprian","family":"Rujescu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Management and Rural Development Department, Faculty of Management and Rural Tourism, University of Life Sciences \u201cKing Michael I\u201d, 300645 Timisoara, Romania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Bogdan","family":"Sicoe","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Diagnostic Imaging, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Life Sciences \u201cKing Michael I\u201d, 300645 Timisoara, Romania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2197-8900","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Cornel","family":"Igna","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Surgery Clinic, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Life Sciences \u201cKing Michael I\u201d, 300645 Timisoara, Romania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,7,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"632","DOI":"10.1177\/1012690211416726","article-title":"Equine athletes and interspecies sport","volume":"47","author":"Gilbert","year":"2012","journal-title":"Int. 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