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Re: [RC] Endurance topics! - TypeF \(Jackie Floyd\)

This past weekend I had the opportunity to ride with Maryben Stover on a new
trail in her neck of the woods. It was the day we had horrendous storms here
in the San Joaquin Valley. We never got poured on in San Jose like it did
here while I was gone, but it was cool and windy and we got rained on
briefly. We happened to be off our horses for a snack break when the skies
open. Talk about disgruntled riders when we had to climb back into our
soaked sheepskin saddle covers. Yuck!

James sweated a lot because it was a tough trail. It was a two hour trailer
ride over and a two hour trailer ride back. We went approx. 15 miles. Up
until that day, it had been very warm here still. When I unloaded him at
home, I noticed he was acting a little funny. Kind of antsy. Not staying in
one place very long, kind of stomping his back feet, etc. So I watched him
for quite a while. He stopped doing that about a half hour after we got home
so I left him alone. He never looked at his belly.

As a secondary thing, he developed a really stiff neck and couldn't reach
the ground later that night for his feed. As it was a 20 degrees colder than
it had been the day before I put a blanket on him for the night even though
he was under a cover. The next morning he still had a stiff neck but had
worked out of it by the afternoon. I'm sure the neck thing was brought on by
the fact that he JIGGED all day, uphill and downhill. Made himself sore. But
the weather, I'm sure contributed since it was so different than what he's
been used to.

:) Jackie and James Dean

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karen Sullivan" <greymare56@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "steph teeter" <stephteeter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 8:17 AM
Subject: Re: [RC] Endurance topics!



----- Original Message -----
From: "steph teeter" <stephteeter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Here's a question for you - after a ride last weekend, three horses
coliced - all were top ten, all fit and seasoned horses, all had great
vet scores all day, no indication of trouble. It was the first rainy
cool day we've had all summer. Lots of water on the trail, in creek
crossings.

*Hi Steph,

It could very well have been weather related.  We had a pony that would
colic
with the advent of any weather change.  Also, at least here in Calif, we
are
currently
having a really radical shift from our temps of night in the 60's and days
in the upper
90's.......we are getting odd frosts at night with horses just starting a
winter coat...but
still quite hot during the day.  They may also just not drink as much when
the weather
starts to change.

My mare has fuzzed up alarmingly this past week and was shivering when I
went out
to feed the other day.  With her first introduction to a ride this weekend
(Chamberlin
Ck. 30)...I am a bit worried about the heat during the day.  As this is
her
only ride, I
am not going to clip belly or neck.  She will have to deal with it; we
will
have to go slow.

However, with this horse I am not worried about water intake or
hydration...she is a chow
hound, drinks well and I have been giving a lot of soaked beet pulp this
week and water
with bran thrown in...she really tanks up.  Drive time to the ride is
under
2 hours and it
will be relatively cool...

Still remains to be seen how she does....

Thanks for the heads up on non-endurance related topics.
Karen




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