Checkmate

CHECKMATE is a revolutionary new online breeding tool that harnesses the power of genetics to optimise your breeding programme. Powered by Equinome’s cutting-edge genomic tools, CHECKMATE allows breeders to examine the genetic profile of their mare in high-definition and identify stallions that best complement her DNA. A simple blood sample will take you beyond the pedigree to insights never accessible before.

CHECKMATE provides mare owners with key insights including:

My Broodmare Band

Maintaining genetic diversity in your broodmare band will allow greater stallion choice and help you to establish a sustainable population of mares.

Genomic Inbreeding

Measuring inbreeding in DNA can help to ensure that the beneficial effects of your breeding decisions continue to outpace any detrimental effect of inbreeding.

Genetic Ancestry

Measuring the amount of DNA in your mare coming from key stallions representing the principal sire-lines provides an accurate evaluation of genetic ancestry.

Physicial Traits

Analysing DNA is the most accurate way to assess the physical attributes that will be passed on to a foal.

Mate My Mare

Test mating your mare against CHECKMATE’s database of stallions allows you to make predictions about a hypothetical foal:

  • Distance type
  • Physical type
  • Genomic inbreeding
  • Performance potential*

*Available in 2024 for a select set of stallions

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What the pros are saying

“Having done a genetic test, its implications have opened my eyes into thinking about what the optimum distance of a horse could be and how it could contradict the normal assumptions that might be based on pedigree”
Hugo Palmer
“We do a DNA test on all our horses and he came up a T:T long, which is an extreme distance horse, so before we raced him we knew he was a horse with the genetic potential to run 3,200+ metres. That has always been at the back of our mind.”
Danny O'Brien
Melbourne Cup-winning trainer Danny O’Brien on genetically testing Vow and Declare with the Plusvital Racing Genepak, including the Speed Gene Test
“Anyone breeding horses who doesn’t know the genetic make-up of his mares is throwing caution to the wind. To me, Plusvital’s Speed Gene Test is an absolute necessity.”
Jim Bolger