Time schedule

• 11./12. Sept (morning): arrival of participants
• 12. Sept. afternoon: Scientific sessions
• evening: Dinner (by invitation of the organizers)
• 13. Sept. Scientific sessions
• 14. Sept. Tour to Babolna National Stud and Diospuszta Thoroughbred Stud, Hungary

Topics and invited speakers

• Ethical and regulatory issues peculiar to young horses in elite equestrian sports
  Göran Akerström, FEI, Lausanne, SUI
• Accidents in young horses in racing and training – incidence and predisposing factors
  Rebecca Mouncey, London, UK
• Training young horses – behavior and welfare
  Gemma Pearson, Edinburgh, UK
• Physical responses of young horses to training
  Brian Nielsen, East Lansing, MI, USA
• Effects of training on bone development – windows of opportunity
  Rene van Weeren, Utrecht, NL
• Stress response and mental maturity in young horses
  Christine Aurich, Vienna, AT
• Providing a positive experience: The challenges of introducing young horses to competition
  Andrew McLean, AUS
• Behavioral responses of young Thoroughbreds to training
  Katharina Kirsch, Berlin, DE
• Temperament and performance in trotter racehorses
  Paulina Berglund, Uppsala, SWE
• Housing, behavior and training
  Janne W. Christensen, Aarhus, DK
• Prospects of an equine health database and routine genome-wide SNP genotyping
  Kathrin F. Stock, Verden, DE

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