Re: RC: old horses

["Colleen Kirkpatirck" <polaristhewonderhorse@hotmail.com>]

Hello,
My horse will be turning 15 in May.
I basiclly ride everyother day and during the weekend I ride about 50 miles 
(25 miles a day).
I feed him mainley a grass/alfalfa mix and he gets beat pulp once a week.
If I gave it to him everyday he would kill me lol!
I have tried some multi day rides but I have not been sucsessful.
Have always been pulled.
His metabolic system is not designed for muli-days I guess.
So we mainley stick to 50's.
This season I am going to have some blood work done if he gets another
metabolic pull.
I have noticed the older he gets the more problems he has had metabolicly.
I don't know if it is the same with other older horses.

Colleen K. & Polaris(I'm in my golden years!)








>From: "Annie George" <ageorge@vtc.net>
>To: "RideCamp x x" <ridecamp-d@endurance.net>
>Subject: RC:  old horses
>Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 06:40:30 -0700
>
>I would like to hear from all you folks with horses above 15 that are still 
>doing the tuff rides, multi days and 100's- what-how- why- when- your feed, 
>exercize-rest- conditioning-advice. Reply via ridecamp so we can all learn. 
>Annie
>Anne George Saddlery    >   www.vtc.net/~ageorge

_________________________________________________________________
Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com