Ridecamp: [RC] Leonard--aka "cool dude"

You said:"electroloytes : you do a lot :-) Is it really necessary?"

Some friends and I have been discussing metabolic crashes (mostly since the 
WEG deaths) with an eye to trying to guess what predetermining factors 
might be--ie, what "sets a horse up" for a metabolic problem.  One of the 
things we decided is probably "huge", is the distances we haul--many of us 
haul more than six hours to rides routinely.  Would you say this is 
different in Europe?    I am wondering if our "need" to electrolyte so much 
may, in fact, be due to the distances we haul and the horses being in 
deficit before the race begins.  People often note that in the "old days" 
nobody electrolyted like this--I am wondering if they were hauling these 
distances then. Thoughts?


You also said:"trotting done (according to me) very badly (most of the 
trotted horse had to suffer bad(too short) turns on the hindlegs - figure 
out after 50 miles the effect on the joints and muscles)".  Could you 
expand on this?  Do you mean the set up of the trot out was bad (narrow 
'lanes', small cone, etc.)?  Or do you mean riders trotted their horses 
badly (turned them too sharply)?

Terre (interesting to see ourselves thru others' eyes!)


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