• Introduction
    • Projects
    • Webinars
    • Meet The Team
      • Welcome to the WBFSH

        Scientific Collaboration

        To reflect the increasing importance of science and research in sport horse breeding the new Department of Scientific Collaboration was created to coordinate the organisation’s groundbreaking work in initiatives such as the Scientific Advisory Committee. This has become a hub for the exchange of information in scientific research related to breeding.

        Our Department will make the latest scientific developments and information available to the members and support the important goals of developing and promoting excellence, as well as safeguarding equine health and welfare.

      • Webinars

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          Watch Presentation

          Watch the webinar on what breeding values are and how they can be useful

          Play Webinar

        • PDF Downloads

          Downloads

          Download webinar presentation PDF files

          Download Files

      • Meet The Team

        • Sonja Egan

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          Dr Sonja Egan (IRL) is Head of Breeding, Innovation & Development at Horse Sport Ireland, leading genomic testing and SNP-based parentage/DNA verification initiatives that underpin data-driven breeding and welfare. She serves on the WBFSH Scientific Advisory Committee and now joins the WBFSH Executive as Director of the Department of Scientific Collaboration. Her recent work includes advancing next-generation parentage verification and genomics research to support breeders and veterinarians.

Get in touch

The Department of Science will be happy to be informed about research going on in your country/studbook. Please send me a small summary of the research. More information in form of scientific papers will also be welcome.

If you have any questions or would like to find out more about our work and how you can get involved, please do not hesitate to drop us an email, it would be a pleasure to talk to you.