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Re: [RC] hills in Florida? - Truman Prevatt

You know I tend to agree with you. However, I must say that if you look at the rides in FL - many but not all area sandy - I haven't noticed any higher pull rates or any more problems with leg injuries than in any other conditions. So for a well conditioned horse I'm not sure that sand is any worse than many other conditions. It will tire a horse out quicker if he is not used to it. A horse that doesn't know how to use his front end, sand will probably tire even quicker. After I did my first 100 - which was 100 miles of sand - Dane Frazier showed me where it tended to make horses sore. It was the shoulder. She finished, she was fine but her shoulder was a little sore.

If you ask me mud puts the horse at a much greater risk of injury than does sand.

Truman

Sky Ranch wrote:

Sand conditioning is a whole different ballgame, and if a horse isn't
used to deep sand, it's a big problem. If you don't condition in sand, your
horse can go lame really quickly trying to negotiate deep sand, especially
at speed.




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"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."

- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)




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