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 Some of the best companies across the equine industry

Partners

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ADM ANIMAL NUTRITION

GROSTRONG MINERAL

ADM Animal Nutrition is now the official feed of Solo Select, solidifying an already long-standing partnership that powers the health and performance of the thousands of top-level prospects and performers that come through the aisles of Solo's Texas facilities.

 

ADM's program centers around its Forage First® principles, which emphasizes the importance of high-quality forage-based feeds rather than grain-based feeds. Solo Select's performers, prospects and breeding stock all are asked to perform their very best, and ADM Feeds partnership provides the nutrition to make that possible.

 

"We have hundreds of horses in our care at all times, and we are dedicated to giving each one of them the very best nutrition," Solo Select's Melanie Smith said. "ADM is a company we are very familiar with, as we have been using their products for over six years. When we started feeding GROSTRONG® Minerals in 2018, we saw cleaner X-rays in our young horses, and we’ve continued to see these results through years of developing young horses. We pride ourselves on providing radiographs on every performance horse we sell, because our customers need horses that can hold up to training and competing at the highest levels. ADM is a tool in our arsenal that we can't replace. We have recommended them for years, and we are confident in the product they put out. This partnership is not anything new—it’s just official now. They have been a staple of our program from the beginning.”

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ETALON

Etalon Equine Genetics and Solo Select have launched a partnership that will benefit the whole of the equine industry by tracking more genetic markers than ever before in Solo's elite offering of horses.

All broodmares, stallions, performers and sale horses will undergo Etalon's comprehensive genetic testing, capable of determining a horse's genetic predisposition to color and pattern, performance capabilities and health traits. Etalon offers the standard 5-panel test for diseases like GBED, HERDA, HYPP, MH, PSSM1, but the company also can test for some 70 other diseases. Plus, Etalon has tests for speed, gait, temperament and size, as well as an interactive ancestral analysis.

"I heard Christa Lafayette, Etalon's founder, speak at the Cowgirl Essence Exchange

last year," Melanie Smith, Solo Select founder, said. "I was immediately interested. Etalon is clearly interested in bringing the most cutting-edge genetic technology into the horse industry, pushing the limits on what we think we can understand and what we think we know."

Etalon is overseen by scientific advisors as well as veterinarians, meticulously managing quality control in its results. All genetic results will be available and transferred to buyers for each horse in The

Select Online Sale, allowing those buyers to further pursue even deeper testing with

Etalon after purchase.

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