Re: Tevis IVs and metabolic pulls

["Susan Garlinghouse" <suendavid@worldnet.att.net>]

> We desperately need the research being proposed and conducted by Tom
Ivers,
> Barney Fleming, Susan Garlinghouse, and others.    My own opinion is that
it
> is premature to implement any possible 'solutions' because we just don't
have
> enough information.   We ALL need to think about realistic ways to gather
> better, useable data about how to predict/prevent metabolic crises in our
> endurance athletes.


Ummmmmmmm....there *is* published research that did find an extremely strong
correlation to metabolic failures at Tevis and had nothing to do with rider
experience, speed into RF or anything else---it had to do with the relative
fat condition of the horses and the statistics were off the scale in their
"confidence level".  The study is here :

http://www.shady-acres.com/susan/tevis95-96.shtml

This was also the subject of the seminar I presented at the AERC nat'l
convention two years ago.  If anybody has a thin horse and got pulled at
Tevis for metabolics, you might want to read this before trying it again.

The project at Swanton next month is a next-generation study to this one
listed.

Susan G