A Survey on the Stable Vice of Race Horse in Stable

This study was conducted to identify various habits of stable vices and its occurring frequency in racing horses, currently managed in Korea, through categorizing the total 1,386 head of racing horses in Seoul Racing Park into sex, age and years of stabling. Among the 1,386 horses, 524 heads(37.8%) have shown habits of stable vices and its appearances rate according to each category is as following; While 40.7% of stallions showed the highest appearances rate of stable vices by sex, it was 50%, 44.2%, and 53% for the age of 2, 6 and 4, respectively by age, it was 41%, 40.6% and 39.1% for the years of stabling of 2, 4 and 3, respectively. For the appearances rate of individual stable vices, 7.0% of mares showed the highest appearances rate of ‘kicking at walls’, 12.9% of stallions showed ‘biting habit’ and 5.7% of castrated horses showed ‘weaving’ when grouped by sex. According to age, 8.3%, and 6.1% of horses of age 2 showed ‘kicking at walls’, ‘wind-sucking’ and ‘pawing’, respectively while 4.9% of horses of age 3 showed ‘pawing’, 6.4% of horses of age 4 showed ‘kicking at walls’, 6.8% of horses of age 5 showed ‘kicking at walls’ and ‘biting habit’ and 8.7% of horses of age 6 showed ‘weaving’ and ‘biting habit’. By the year of stabling, 6% of horses for 1 year had ‘pawing habit’, 7% og horses for 2 years had ‘kicking at walls’, 7.4% of horses for 3 years had ‘biting habit’ and it was 6.9% and 10.6% for ‘weaving’ for 4 and 5 years of stabling, respectively. In conclusion, the racing horses in Korea seemed to show high rate of appearance rate of stable vices and it is considered to be necessary to improve stable equipments and management skills to reduce the appearance rate of stable vices.

경주마의 마사내에서의 악벽에 관한 조사연구

본 조사연구에서는 우리나라에서 관리되고 있는 경주마에서 나타나는 악벽의 종류와 그 출현빈도를 조사하기 위하여 현재 서울경마공원에서 관리되고 있는 경주마 총 1,386두를 대상으로 마사내에서의 주요 악벽의 출현율을 성별, 나이별, 마사입사년차별로 나누어 조사하였다. 경주마의 악벽은 총 조사두수 1,386두 중 37.8%인 524두가 가지고 있었다. 성별에서는 숫말에서 가장 높은 40.7%의 출현율을 보였고, 나이별에서는 2세, 6세 및 4세마에서 각각 50.0%, 44.2% 및 43%로 높은 출현율을 보였고, 마방입사년차별에서는 2년차, 4년차 및 3년차에서 41%, 40.6% 및 39.1%로 높게 나타났다. 악벽별로는 성별에서 암말은 축벽에서 7.0%로 가장 높았고, 숫말에서는 무는 버릇이 12.9 %, 거세마에서는 웅벽이 5.7%로 가장 높은 출현율을 보였다. 나이별로는 2세마에서 축벽이 8.3%, 석벽이 8.3%, 앞발로 바닥을 긁는 버릇이 6.1%, 3세마에서는 앞발로 바닥을 긁는 버릇이 4.9%, 4세마는 축벽이 6.4%, 5세마는 축벽과 무는 버릇이 6.8%, 6세마에서는 웅벽과 무는 버릇이 8.7 %로 높게 나타났다. 마방입사년차별에서는 1년차에서는 앞발로 바닥을 긁는 버릇이 6.0%, 2년차에서는 축벽이 7.0%, 3년차에서는 무는 버릇이 7.4%, 4년차와 5년차 이상의 말에서는 웅벽이 각각 6.9% 및 9.2%로 높게 조사되었다.