Fwd: RC: are electrolytes a must?

["hope lundquist" <wwho20@hotmail.com>]

Hi Julie: Do you know if Wendell Robie or Pat & Donna Fitzgerald or any of 
the early Endurance Riders ever gave electrolytes to their horses? I never 
heard of them before 1976 myself. I use some sparingly now. How about you, 
what's your take on Electrolytes? With all your miles I'd be interested to 
know. Regards Hope
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>From: Jennifer Kurtzhall <jkurtzhall@yahoo.com>
>To: "Betsy O'Shea" <betsy@micoks.net>
>CC: ridecamp@endurance.net
>Subject: RC:    are electrolytes a must?
>Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 17:53:40 -0700 (PDT)
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>  I know we've all had elyte supplementing pounded into our heads, (I give 
>them just about every time my horse drinks at a ride.) But there are people 
>who are doing very well at rides WITHOUT supplementing elytes. I crewed for 
>a very experienced rider at Swanton 100 this year and her instructions were 
>to put elytes in a bucket of water and offer it to the horse, if the horse 
>didn't want it she didn't get elytes. I don't remember the horse drinking 
>any of the mixture so she  only got whatever elytes were naturally in her 
>hay and grain ( this horse did EAT, like a pig.)
>Horse and rider came in about 30 seconds after Heather Bergantz and Red  
>and looked great, so I am confidant she knows her horse and what she's 
>doing. So it can be done, I don't know how, but it can.
>I would be interested to know how that horse would perform "with" elytes.  
>:)
>Jennifer Kurtzhall
>   Betsy O'Shea <betsy@micoks.net> wrote: Yes, they are a must. there is 
>good info on this in the achieves. I only
>give my horse electrolytes for rides, starting the night before. I do not
>give them daily. On rides I give an ounce or two every 10 miles. Horses
>lose electrolytes in the sweat - and they lose A LOT- so your horse could 
>be
>in trouble unless you give electrolytes to replace what they are loosing.
>Betsy
>At 04:14 PM 9/22/01 -0700, you wrote:
> >Fallon O'Duagal eventer62@hotmail.com
> >I heard that you shouldn't give your horse electrolytes during a ride
> >unless you had been giving him them in advance. But are electrolytes a
> >must when on an endurance ride? I mean will my horse be defficiant in
> >anything if I don't give him them during a ride?
> >
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