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At the LD rides that I did this
> year I always walked the last half mile or so in
> and even tho I ride a pony she had no problem being
> down as soon as we were in.  By the 10 minute mark
> she was at 40 or below. 
We had CT riders from our club working the P&R's at our endurance ride.
They were *shocked* that horses were coming into the P&R area with pulses
of 56 and 64! They were so used to easing into a check with the lowest
possible pulse. I told them if my horse came in below 60 I would take
that as a sign I'm wasting time and need to speed up! It's just two
different goals so the strategies are very different. I just don't see
the value of a super low pulse if it didn't have to really recover from
any stressful work.

Yesterday I rode with a group and one woman was on a green 3 yr. old
mustang mare. My daughter was on her 5 yr. old green Arab. When we were
getting ready to go Josie's horse's pulse was 44...the mustang 36 (the
winner was  the plump mule at 32). We rode maybe an hour, quite a bit of
walking but some sustained trotting (it was hot and humid and the mare
was a tank). I had to get off to fix an easyboot and after standing
around a couple of minutes took pulses. The green Arab was 52. The
mustang was 112. If we'd never stressed them any that first pulse would
have had you thinking the mustang would be better able to handle the
work. By the way, lest the mustang people get offended...there was an 8
yr. old mustang with us who was 52 also. :-)

Angie



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