Re: RC: The Russian horse's pulse rate and recovery numbers

["Heather Hamper" <hnhamper@hotmail.com>]

Hi All

I've had two endurance horses (both Arab mares) with unusually low resting 
heart rates and both these mares dropped a beat regularly.  Very handy for 
set-speed rides!  This dropped beat disapears on exercise.

Heather Hamper
Aquitaine Arabians
UK & France



>From: "Truman Prevatt, PhD" <truman.prevatt@netsrq.com>
>Reply-To: truman.prevatt@netsrq.com
>To: SandyDSA@aol.com
>CC: carolheard@mcsi.net, ridecamp@endurance.net
>Subject: RC:    The Russian horse's pulse rate and recovery numbers
>Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 11:17:47 -0400
>
>I've had more than one vet comment to me that with a resting rates that 
>low, the
>horses are actually sometimes missing beats. It seems to be common with 
>horses
>and it's not a big deal. On the other hand with humans you would probably 
>have a
>dead man ( or woman).
>
>Truman
>
>SandyDSA@aol.com wrote:
>
> > In a message dated 10/18/00 9:21:09 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> > carolheard@mcsi.net writes:
> >
> > > "Many Russian horses have normal pulse rates from 25 to 30, which 
>after
> > >  work falls immediately from 100 to 40. This is an ideal metabolic
> > > requirement
> > >
> >
> > I don't know about that, but our straight Egyptian stallion has a RHR of 
>22,
> > sometimes 20, documented by aghast ride vets - and drops in seconds to
> > criteria.
> > San
> >
> >
>
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