Re: Trail Riding Safety/watering horses

["Barbara McCrary" <bigcreekranch@cruzio.com>]

When I first started becoming interested in endurance (30+ years ago), a
noted rider of that time told me, "You are in far greater danger of
dehydrating your horse than you are of causing founder."  That was in answer
to my question regarding watering a hot horse.  When I was growing up, it
was believed that you NEVER watered a horse until he had cooled off or he
would founder.

Barbara

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carolyn Burgess" <carolyn_burgess@hotmail.com>
To: <bluewolfranch@yahoo.com>; <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 11:06 AM
Subject: RC: Trail Riding Safety/watering horses


> I can't imagine doing any ride now, no matter how short, not allowing my
> horse to drink if they wanted too.  I am now almost exactly the opposite.
I
> try to get them to drink at any decent looking water.  I'm not sure how
this
> thought process got started, but was probably something stupid.
>
> Carolyn Burgess
>
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Linda Flemmer <bluewolfranch@yahoo.com>
> To: Carolyn Burgess <carolyn_burgess@hotmail.com>, ridecamp@endurance.net
> Subject: RC:  Trail Riding Safety/watering horses
> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 10:22:50 -0700 (PDT)
>
> Can you imagine trying to ride a 50 or 100 following
> this practice of horse watering?  We'd see horses on
> IV's left & right!
>
> Linda Flemmer
> Blue Wolf Ranch
> West Virginia
> --- Carolyn Burgess <carolyn_burgess@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>  > I, like Linda (maybe this is one of those strange
>  > New England things Linda),
>  > was taught to "never water a hot horse
>
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