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Took my Mustang out for a cruise this weekend on a
10-mile foothill ride with my husband on his big Belgian/Thoroughbred cross.
Darn big horse couldn't keep up with my Mustang just trotting what I thought was
a normal trot! And I wasn't going fast, but my little horse covers ground pretty
good (my trainer calls her a "strider") and that big horse was trotting like
crazy and I was constantly having to stop and wait. It was an intereting
comparison. First time the two had been out together since I'm just starting
with this Mustang.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 11:56
PM
Subject: Re: [RC] The Aging Equine
Athlete!
Yeah but just think how much energy those BIG horses are using
just by
packing themselves around. They are harder to get on, and they
also need to
eat more.
Renee
<<At 02:42 PM 06/24/2002
+0200, you wrote:
>Not being good at maths and stuff, but ..... being
smaller would that not
>mean that the horse would have a shorter stride
and thus have to take more
>steps to cover the same distance as a
taller, longer strided
horse?
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