Re: Riding Rained On Horse Harmful To Horse???
Alice Steinke (alicest@hcc-uky.campus.mci.net)
Sun, 20 Oct 1996 23:17:18 -0500
Another question. I'd heard for years and years that you should never put
water on the big muscles, back, etc of hot horse. I was always taught to
just sponge or hose large veins on the legs b/c the blood would circulate
through in 5 (?) minutes to cool whole horse. I thought if you hosed large
muscles the horses would cramp or tie up or something. has thinking on this
changed.
alice
>
>Endurance riders do it all the time. Even on clear days, we pour water
>on the horse at the vet checks (on hot & humid rides). Besides, most of
>the time the horse's back will soon get wet from his own sweat. If you
>have good, well-fitting tack, saddling a wet horse will not cause him
>any harm at all.
>
>--
>
>Joe Long
>jflong@worldnet.att.net
>http://fly.hiwaay.net/~jlong/home.shtml
>
>
>
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