Re: Re: Trail Riding Safety/watering horses

["Laura Hayes" <mark@madbbs.com>]

I call it the Black Beauty theory.  In Black Beauty, they almost killed him
by watering him after he ran all the way to get the Doctor - that little
piece of fiction has probably led to many dehydrated horses!

Many years ago I was giving a distance riding clinic to 4Hers and tried to
stress that horses needed to be allowed to drink on trail.  We went out for
a little loop and when we got to the creek, most of the leaders and parents
wouldn't allow the kids to let their horses drink.  I guess they didn't
believe me!!

Laura Hayes  AERC #2741

----- Original Message -----
From: "Barbara McCrary" <bigcreekranch@cruzio.com>
To: "Carolyn Burgess" <carolyn_burgess@hotmail.com>
Cc: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 7:01 PM
Subject: RC: Re: Trail Riding Safety/watering horses


> When I first started becoming interested in endurance (30+ years ago), a
> noted rider of that time told me, "You are in far greater danger of
> dehydrating your horse than you are of causing founder."  That was in
answer
> to my question regarding watering a hot horse.  When I was growing up, it
> was believed that you NEVER watered a horse until he had cooled off or he
> would founder.
>
> Barbara
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carolyn Burgess" <carolyn_burgess@hotmail.com>
> To: <bluewolfranch@yahoo.com>; <ridecamp@endurance.net>
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 11:06 AM
> Subject: RC: Trail Riding Safety/watering horses
>
>
> > I can't imagine doing any ride now, no matter how short, not allowing my
> > horse to drink if they wanted too.  I am now almost exactly the
opposite.
> I
> > try to get them to drink at any decent looking water.  I'm not sure how
> this
> > thought process got started, but was probably something stupid.
> >
> > Carolyn Burgess
> >
> >
> > ----Original Message Follows----
> > From: Linda Flemmer <bluewolfranch@yahoo.com>
> > To: Carolyn Burgess <carolyn_burgess@hotmail.com>,
ridecamp@endurance.net
> > Subject: RC:  Trail Riding Safety/watering horses
> > Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 10:22:50 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> > Can you imagine trying to ride a 50 or 100 following
> > this practice of horse watering?  We'd see horses on
> > IV's left & right!
> >
> > Linda Flemmer
> > Blue Wolf Ranch
> > West Virginia
> > --- Carolyn Burgess <carolyn_burgess@hotmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >  > I, like Linda (maybe this is one of those strange
> >  > New England things Linda),
> >  > was taught to "never water a hot horse
> >
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