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I know we've all had elyte supplementing pounded into our heads, (I give them just about every time my horse drinks at a ride.) But there are people who are doing very well at rides WITHOUT supplementing elytes. I crewed for a very experienced rider at Swanton 100 this year and her instructions were to put elytes in a bucket of water and offer it to the horse, if the horse didn't want it she didn't get elytes. I don't remember the horse drinking any of the mixture so she only got whatever elytes were naturally in her hay and grain ( this horse did EAT, like a pig.)
Horse and rider came in about 30 seconds after Heather Bergantz and Red and looked great, so I am confidant she knows her horse and what she's doing. So it can be done, I don't know how, but it can.
I would be interested to know how that horse would perform "with" elytes. :)
Jennifer Kurtzhall
Betsy O'Shea <betsy@micoks.net> wrote:
Yes, they are a must. there is good info on this in the achieves. I only
give my horse electrolytes for rides, starting the night before. I do not
give them daily. On rides I give an ounce or two every 10 miles. Horses
lose electrolytes in the sweat - and they lose A LOT- so your horse could be
in trouble unless you give electrolytes to replace what they are loosing.
Betsy
At 04:14 PM 9/22/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Fallon O'Duagal eventer62@hotmail.com
>I heard that you shouldn't give your horse electrolytes during a ride
>unless you had been giving him them in advance. But are electrolytes a
>must when on an endurance ride? I mean will my horse be defficiant in
>anything if I don't give him them during a ride?
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