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Even though the water may be warm, it's still cooler than the hot horse.  The key is to sponge it on, then immediately wipe it off with your hand.  Once it absorbs heat from the horse, it then becomes an insulating layer that holds heat *in*.  You can use a scraper, but I find it easier to just use the side of my hand...simpler than having a scraper to deal with.  Just keep applying water, wiping it off, applying more, wiping it off...etc.  Naturally, the greater the difference in water temp and horse temp, the more heat each application of water will remove.  But the tepid water *will* help cool your horse...just not as fast as cooler water would.

 

Dawn Carrie, East Texas (what's cool water???)

 

On 8/10/07, Kristi Schaaf <iluvdez@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Got a question - does it really do the horse any good
if you sponge warm or lukewarm water on him? Most of
the water sources on trails in my area (midwest) are
really warm this time of year, and I can't imagine how
the water from them would actually help cool my
horse....if anything, it seems like the warm water
could insulate and make him hotter...??? Unless of
course you also brought a scraper and scraped him off
after you sponged...but with the high humidity it
seems like all you'd be doing is adding wet warmth to
wet warmth. I'm just curious because there are lots of
sponge fanatics in AERC and I'm wondering if it's
really worth the wet saddle pad, tights, etc if the
water used isn't very cool.

Kristi

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