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That's why you don't want to use electrolytes with bicarbs in them for an
endurance horse. I've never checked the Summer Games so I don't know if it
has bicarbs or not. 

But you are right. If I'm going to change electrolytes I call my biochemist
friend and run them by her. I think all the ones Karen C has on her site
are pretty good, however.

Truman

Rides 2 Far wrote:
> > I think "Summer Games" were developed for race horses, eventing >
> >   
> horses, > etc. - those that do a lot of anerobic exercise. EnduraMax was
> > forumlated for endurance exercise.
> >   
>
> I went to a seminar at UT a long time ago and they had a list of the
> different athletic events and whether the horse became acidic or
> alkaline. As I recall, endurance horses became alkaline, and practically
> everyone else became acidic (3 day eventing, racing, harness racing).
> That's why it irritates me when the catalogs put "to replace electrolytes
> lost in the equine athlete". Which ones?  I figure if they don't know
> enough to tell me, they don't know enough to be in charge of my horse's
> life. Wouldn't treating an alkaline horse with electrolytes geared
> towards an acidic one be like trying to put out a fire with gasoline?
>
> Angie
>
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