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Re: [RC] [RC] Question on heart rates - ll cole

I'd take offense at that if it weren't so TRUE!!!

Barry Cole, USDA PPQ Officer

>From: Bette Lamore
>Reply-To: woa@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: "ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx"
>Subject: [RC] Question on heart rates
>Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 10:51:31 -0700
>
>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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