Re: [RC] Saddles that move forward/backward - Lisa Douglass

When I talk resting heart rate on my horses, I do it first thing on a 
cool morning when there is little distraction. I've found that the 
excitement of ride day had a big impact on my mare and what she checked 
in at. It would range anywhere from around 30 to as high as 60! The vet 
wasn't alarmed and told me to take her back to my trailer and bring her 
back when there was no line. She was 28 when I did that. The higher 
check in had nothing to do with condition but other factors - being so 
high she was walking around on her tiptoes.

The Jbird is much calmer in camp and his check in rate doesn't vary more 
than a beat or two.

In all the conditioning of both horses, I have not noticed much a change 
in the resting rate (taken early on a cool morning). There may have been 
a little drop but not one of any significance - especially compared to 
how much mine dropped from the time I was running in high school and 
thought I was in shape till my senior year in college and found that 
working four years in a good program I was really in shape.

Truman

Beverley H. Kane, MD wrote:
> So if your horse were unfit and fidgeting in the vet line, his HR would be
> more like 50 than 40, up from 28.
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> Beverley
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> Horsensei Equine-Assisted Learning & Therapy
> Woodside, CA
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