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There were discussions in MAS (primarily focused on the thoughts of  
Peter Toft) about the role that the core body temp, ambient temp/ 
humidity, and cooling ability of the horse. Thoughts being that there  
may be situations where the ambient context of a competition may  
drastically alter the possible competitive nature of an event (i.e.  
in some places you just can't go as fast b/c the horse is not capable  
of cooling themselves effectively in those contexts). The core body  
temp starts to go up and metabolic distress follows.

Not related to electrolytes, but necessitating extremes in cooling to  
occur more frequently or significantly slowing the overall  
competition speed.

jt



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