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Next Tech: The Sequisol Project

By Brett Zarda

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

With all due respect to Mr. Ed, horses don't communicate well with their trainers. But across the Atlantic, French researchers are using technology to give horses (specifically their hooves) the ability to scream when it hurts. The "Sequisol Project" (a play on the French words 'safe', 'equestrian' and 'terrain') attempts to find some scientific support for the theory that synthetic track surfaces could save horses. Through a series of research projects conducted at the Equine Biomechanics a ...

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