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Thanks everyone for all the responses , I got lots of great information from 
some . My mare did very well in endurance when I competed her but than had 
two major tie ups two years apart at rides and both were early in the ride 
at a moderate pace (8mph) Both times she had to have lots of fluids and when 
they did the blood tests she basically had zero Calcium in her blood . She 
has always carried extra weight even when I was riding her every other day , 
she can pretty much live on air :-) Even when competing hard she only 
received about 1 cup of Ultium in her BP along with grass hay . She also has 
some pretty bad  reactions  to some of her vaccines in the past .  She has 
had 1 1/2 years off of endurance with just some light trail riding . She has 
never had any signs of laminitis but does have the cresty neck . Our place 
is all grass pastureland so I have ordered her a grazing muzzle so I do not 
have to keep her locked up in a corral all the time . She just has a few 
things going on that are making me question whether or not she is IR .
                                    Drin Becker
                                    Mtn Region 


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