Re: RC: Re: LD milage

[Lif Strand <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>]

At 05:28 PM 10/18/00, Janet Benke wrote:
>And it seems to me that I've been cautioned in conditioning to TROT up and 
>WALK down, less stress on the horse's joints.

Yeah, you're right about the joint stress - you'd want a well conditioned 
horse before you start barrelling down those hills!  But with a well 
conditioned horse,  it would be way less tiring and more time saving 
to  use gravity to an advantage.



Lif Strand
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