Re: RC: Up Hill or Down

[Truman Prevatt <truman.prevatt@netsrq.com>]

Some limb has to absorb the energy or else the horse would hit the speed
of light and disappear into a flash of photons. Kidding aside on a hill,
the horse will have some additional potential energy (which will turn
into kinetic energy when his feet finally hit the ground) along with the
kinetic energy as he moves down hill.

Unless his front legs don't touch the ground in which case he is up
running on his hinds like a bear, he will have additional energy to
absorb with his front legs.

Some horses can handle this better than others, no questions about that.
But there is more energy to absorb by the front legs going down hill
than on the flat. The energy has to go somewhere.

Truman 

CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 1/10/00 2:33:40 PM Pacific Standard Time, Tivers writes:
> 
> <<  The center of gravity of the horse is just behind the shoulder, near the
> heart, when the horse is standing on a flat surface, according to the
> science, putting 60% of his stance weight on the forelegs. You can drop a
> plumb  line from this point and it will fall just behind the forefoot. If you
> place the horse on a downward incline,  The plumb line moves forward,
> probably past the foreleg on a reasonably gentle incline. Just a casual
> observation that doesn't require any horsemanship at all to make.
> 
>  What you are saying is that this does not result in more weight being placed
> on the forelegs vs the hindlegs? Don't need a long academic dissertation,
> just yea or neigh. Let's get past this one before we entertain the next
> simple concept.  >>
> 
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Truman Prevatt
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