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Time schedule

11th Sept. arrival of participants (evening)
12th Sept
       morning arrival of participants
       for participants arriving on 11th Sept. Bird watching at Lake Neusiedl National Park
      13:00 Scientific sessions start (see below) 
      evening: Workshop dinner (by invitation of the organisers)
13th Sept: Scientific session
14th Sept: Tour to Babolna National Stud and Diospuszta Thoroughbred Stud, Hungary
      Flights departing from Vienna International Airport 20:00 or later can be reached.  

Scientific programme

Saturday, 12th September
12:00              Sandwich lunch 
13:00-13:15    Welcome (Christine Aurich)
13:15-14:00    Physical responses of young horses to training (Brian Nielsen, USA)
14:00-14:45    Effects of training on bone development – windows of opportunity
                        (Rene van Weeren, NL)
14:45-15:30   Coffee break
15:30-16:15    Accidents in young horses in racing and training – incidence and
                        predisposing factors (Rebecca Mouncey, UK)
16:15-17:15    Three free communications
                        Training load, internal–external load coupling and fitness adaptation in young
                            Friesian and Warmblood sport horses (Carolien Munsters, NL)
                        Effects of training in young Standardbred racehorses on locomotion
                            asymmetry, plasma aspartataminotransferase and serum amyloid A
                            concentrations (Sara Ringmark, SWE)
                        From pre-training to racing: Prevalence and contextual patterns of
                            abnormal repetitive behaviors in young Thoroughbreds (Lara Klitzing, DE)
                        Thoroughbred geldings′ career: Influence of age at the start of training
                            and racing (Monica Venner, DE)
17:15-18:00    Poster tour and discussion
                        Subjective behavior assessment of yearling and two-year-old
                            Thoroughbred fillies in pretraining by their trainer correlates
                            with cortisol release (Jörg Aurich, AT)
                        Leadership and decision-making in temporarily semi-free-living
                            domesticated horses (Equus caballus) - An observational field study in the
                            Austrian Alps (Franziska Falkner, AT)
                        Skin lesions caused by agonistic behavior in adolescent horses in different
                            housing systems (János Kiss, AT)
                        Behavior in the stable differs between yearling and two-year-old
                            Thoroughbred fillies during pretraining (Hannah Lenz, AT)
                        Behavior differs between yearling and two-year-old Thoroughbreds in a
                            racing stable (Magdalena Manzl, AT)
                        A cognitive-based approach to early education and rehabilitation: Effects of
                            clicker training on proactivity, proprioception, and ppatial awareness
                            in equids (Veronica Pirro, IT)
18:30              Drinks
19:00              Dinner
                        After dinner speech: From the cavalry to equestrian sports in motion pictures
                        (Jörg Aurich) 

Sunday 13th September
9:00-9:45        Training young horses – behavior and welfare (Gemma Pearson, UK)
9:45-10:30      Behavioral responses of young Thoroughbreds to training
                        (Katharina Kirsch, DE)
10:30-11:00    Coffee break
11:00-11:45    Stress response and mental maturity in young horses (Christine Aurich, AT)
11:45-12:30    Providing a positive experience: The challenges of introducing young horses
                        to competition (Andrew McLean, AUS)
12:30-14:00    Lunch
14:00-14:45    Barefoot racing and performance in trotter racehorses
                         (Paulina Berglund, SWE)
14:45-15:30    Prospects of an equine health database and routine genome-wide SNP
                        genotyping (Kathrin F. Stock, DE)
15:30-16:00    Coffee break
16:00-16:45    Housing and welfare – and how that may affect training and performance
                       (Janne W. Christensen, DK)
16:45-18:00    Open discussion: Training and welfare of young horses – questions, problems
                        and solutions across disciplines (Fred Barrelet and Christine Aurich)
19:00               Dinner 

Stud Farm Tour 14 September
8:00                Bus leaves Birkenhof at Gols
10:00               arrive Diospuszta National Thoroughbred  Stud
                        Horse presentation and stud visit at Diospuszta
                        Lunch at Diospuszta Stud 
13:30               leave Diospuszta
14:00               arrive Babolna National Arab Stud                        
                        Horse presentation and stud visit at Babolna
16:00               leave Babolna
17:30               arrive Birkenhof at Gols
Flights departing from Vienna International Airport 20:00 or later can be reached.

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