Thanks. Keep us posted on this. I
wonder if anyone else out there on RC has a horse that can canter along at 90
bpm? (It might be that this Argentian breeder has some super HR
bloodlines--or maybe it's this particular horse?)
Your personal experience of a correlation between
resting HR and recoveries is interesting. (I've always thought recovery to
parameters time was more important than resting rate and that there wasn't
necessarily a correlation between the two, but that was only based on a
guess. I have absolutely no idea otherwise.) Any other RCers who
want to share their experiences with that and help give us some "empirical
data"?
Most importantly though Steph I want to thank
you so much for sharing those absolutely wonderful stories of your experience
crewing for your Argentian friend. You write beautifully. I just
completely loved your reporting--it was definitely the next best thing to
having been there!
Dabney - I don't really know the answer to your question. Mercedes'
horse is amazing, he's tall and leggy and moves like a gazelle - his feet
barely seem to touch the ground - his gaits look effortless.
His recoveries are very fast, but I don't know what his resting heart rate is.
I'll have to ask Mercedes. Her horse also has tremendous feet and good bone -
this is an Argentine bred horse, and my observation of most of the Argentine
arabians is similar - Argentina didn't get caught up in the halter
horse breeding fad like the US did, and their arabians are much more
consistently bred for the important -functional - qualities. Miguel Pavlovsky
is one of the top breeders, and his horses are all awesome.
But
as far as selecting or breeding horses based on resting heart rate - I don't
have solid numbers or statistics. It' seems logical that a large heart will
give the horse a performance advantage, and the best horse I ever rode had a
24 resting heart rate .
Steph
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Steph wrote:
" This horse can canter at 90
bpm,"
Dabney's response:
Oh, well, if That's all it takes to be
a "world class" horse!
(Geez, --I'm lucky if I can get my guys to
Walk at 90 bmp.) I'm in Awe!!
Steph, are they choosing these horses for
genetically low HRs or is that just how it's turning
out?
