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Re: [RC] French system - Kathy Mayeda

To condition on similar terrain or conditions as the ride you are competing in. Where we ride horses in the Bay Area is really pretty hilly or mountainous, so we have to really look for flat land to train for a ride in Dubai. (Not that I ever went to Dubai, but I know a couple of people who did). The horses (and you) use different muscle patterns while going fast on flat land, vs. powering up a hill. A flatland horse will have trouble on hills unless they get hill training and vice versa.

K



----- Original Message ----- From: "D'Arcy Demianoff-Thompson" <liberty4640@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <Leonard.Liesens@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <PFmorabs@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 8:42 AM
Subject: RE: [RC] French system



I wouldn't want to train my horses on flat lands
unless that is the only option that I had.  I have
found being up in the higher elevations has
conditioned my race horses far better than being in
the lowland.

Also, Merced County, CA is FULL of flat sandy loam
soil.  As is most of the central valley of CA.  Then
there is Arizona, New Mexico, and most of the south
east.  Unless you are in the higher elevations of
those states with their red clay.  At any rate...who
would want to train on flat, sandy soil, all of the
time and why?

D'Arcy


D&#39;Arcy L. Demianoff-Thompson liberty4640@xxxxxxxxx




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