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OK I need your expert advice. I have an 11 year old mare who has been a 
couch potato in pasture and I was asked to take her resting and exercise 
and thereafter rates. I got a resting rate of 34 which went up 
dramatically during heavy exercise (lunging) but came back down to 40 in 
25 minutes. How does she rate for an unconditioned horse? What are 
average heart rates for horses prior to training. Because I do not train 
for endurance, I need your help here.
Thanks!
Oh, just got this in and thought you'd all get a kick out of it :-)

The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to
generation, says that, "When you discover that you are riding a dead 
horse, the best strategy is to dismount."
However, in the Federal Government more advanced strategies are often
employed such as:
1) Buying a stronger whip.
2) Changing riders.
3) Appointing a committee to study the horse.
4) Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride
dead horses.
5) Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
6) Reclassifying the dead horse as living impaired.
7) Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
8) Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.
9) Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead
horse's performance.
10) Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve
the dead horse's performance.
11) Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is
less costly, carries lower overhead and therefore contributes substantially
more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses.
12) Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.
13) Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position

Thanks for your help
Bette

--
Bette Lamore
Whispering Oaks Arabians
Home of 16.2h TLA Halynov
who lives on through his legacy
Hal's Riverdance!
http://www.arabiansporthorse.com

Always remember: "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." (George Carlin)




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