Dr. David Lambert

The University of Louisville Equine Industry Program has named David Lambert the 34th recipient of the John W. Galbreath Award for Outstanding Entrepreneurship in the Equine Industry. Lambert will be presented the award on Thursday, Dec. 5. A native of England, Lambert received his bachelor's degree in veterinary science from Liverpool University. Lambert worked in private veterinary practice and with the United States Equestrian Team before founding Equine Analysis Systems in 1987 in Midway, Ky. In 2019, Lambert launched StrideSAFE, wearable sensor technology to document a horse's movements at high...

As the sport continues in its efforts to drastically reduced the number of fatalities that occur in races and in morning training, there's little doubt that StrideSAFE is going to play an important role in preventing breakdowns. StrideSAFE is a biometric sensor mechanism that slips into the saddle cloth to detect minute changes in a horses's gait at high speed. Those changes can, and often do, signal that a horse is in the early stages of having a problem that could lead to a fatal injury. If the StrideSAFE data...

A research team associated with StrideSAFE, the biometric sensor mechanism capable of detecting minute changes in a horse's gait at high speed, concluded that the majority of the recent musculoskeletal fatalities at Churchill Downs were due to pre-existing conditions. A total of 12 horses suffered fatal injuries over a recent five-week period at Churchill, leading track officials to unveil new safety initiatives and then move the remainder of the current meet to Ellis Park. A grant was awarded to StrideSAFE by the Kentucky Equine Drug Research Council (KEDRC), prompting a...