"To rapidly reduce your horse's temperature, bathe the horse in cold water;
then scrape the water off and walk him for a minute in the shade or in front
of a fan; then bathe, scrape, and walk again until your horse has cooled
down.
"Contrary to popular belief, dousing hot horses with cold water--even iced
water--does not cause muscular cramping. I think it's almost impossible to
cool the muscles off too fast because there's a lot of muscle and not much
surface area over the muscle to allow heat loss."
Linda Romander
San Francisco, Calif.