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You hat it right on the head, the initial conditioning takes longer but 
you can get there with the right horse. My TWH mare has a resting pulse 
rate of 26 to 28. Her son has a resting rate of the same as does her 
daughter.
After I spent plenty of time developing a base and finding the secret 
for conditioning her for recoveries she was recovering within a minute 
or two at the checks. I once ran a 3:40 50 on her, was second and won 
BC! At that ride she was recovering as fast as the Arab we were riding 
with - basically as soon has the tack was stripped she was down.

So it can be done. It just takes the right horse and a little longer up 
front.

Truman

Celeste Murray wrote:

> I would just like to comment on this thread, I ride a 16.1hh appaloosa mare
> build like a tank must weigh around 600kg's. We have been doing endurance
> for 4 years now. First 2 years we only did 60km rides, pre-vetted in around
> 52/54, if we got 50/52 at the vet checks I was happy she had a high resting
> pulse, second year it came down, third year lower. Last year we did our
> national championships, 3 days 80km, 80km, 52km. 290 entries we finished
> 52nd, 1st appaloosa in, she never went over 42 at any check starting pulse
> 38/40 each day all three vet checks each day 40/42, including the first day
> which we did in 3hrs 05min!!. Took us longer to reach those low pulses
> through conditioning her system and although she didn't run as low as some
> of the arabs at 32/34 pre-vet pulse she was never more than 2 beats higher
> throughout the ride when some of the arabs pre-vetted at 36 and pulsed in at
> 42/44 at the checks.
>
> Celeste and Snowy
> (South Africa)
>
> PS. We have to qualify for the nationals by completing 3 80km rides during
> the previous 12 months, we did 4 80km rides as well as 2 60km rides and she
> top tenned at all of them and at two of them we rode at "state" qualifying
> times - to qualify to ride for one of our 9 "states" (provinces) at the
> nationals you have to do three rides at an average speed of 18km/hr.
>
>  




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