The use of a racetrack hardness measurement system

Equine Pratice

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 26-29

  Oikawa, Masa Aki ^a   Inada, Shinichi ^a   Fujisawa, Akira ^a   Yamakawa, Hiroshi ^a   Asano, Masumitsu ^a  

^a EQUINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

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