Den homogena travhästen

eller Vad har travsport med globalisering att göra?

Abstract

During the last few decades, horses used for harness racing have become increasingly similar in different places all over the world where the sport exists. Due to fast communications, a well-developed infrastructure and techniques for transporting horses and semen, stallions and mares from different places can be used to produce foals without moving far from their everyday domains. In this article, I try to explain this phenomenon, which leads to homogenisation and inbreeding, through theories about globalisation. I also discuss the horses as travelling creatures, whose status of living and moving is dependent on success or failure on the trotting-course.