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There is a saying: "You can build an endurance
horse, but a CTR horse is born" The scoring methods do favor horses with
natural low heart rates. Interval training can help a lot. I dropped
8 BPM on the resting heart rate of my first CTR horse in 6 months of interval
training.
Differences between checks during the ride, and the
pre-ride pulse can't be used either. The competitors would just make sure
that their horses were all excited at the pre ride vet in.
Ed.
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