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Rutgers Equine Science Center’s Horse Treadmill Debuted on ESPN
Equine exercise treadmill laboratory featured during Rutgers football game

New Brunswick, NJ – November 9, 2009 -- The Rutgers University Equine Science Center was recently featured on ESPN during the broadcast of the Rutgers versus Pittsburgh football game on Friday, October 16, 2009. The segment, which aired during the fourth quarter of the game, showed footage of Snowdrift, a standardbred mare, exercising on the high-speed equine treadmill. The video clip also mentioned the significance of the Equine Science Center as a resource to the equine industry and for its scientific research which benefits both horses and humans.

ESPN, when broadcasting from a host university, seek out points of interest and elements that make each university unique. While researching distinct programs at Rutgers, ESPN discovered that the Equine Science Center is one of very few university departments in the United States with an equine treadmill. The equine treadmill, although 20-feet long, is very similar to a human treadmill found in an exercise gym. Horses are, by nature, extraordinary athletes and by studying the physiological functions of horses as they exercise, the Equine Science Center is making substantial scientific advances in horse health. Interestingly, horses and humans are considerably similar in how they exercise; therefore, the equine research conducted at the Equine Science Center is also applicable in many ways to human athletes.

For more information about the high-speed equine treadmill, please contact the Equine Science Center at 732-932-9419.

To see the ESPN video of Snowdrift on the treadmill, please click here.