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[RC] Re:starting an older horse - put on the miles - Judy Houle

Hi heard Kerry Ridgeway, DVM say once that you only
had until a horse was 10 or 12 to harden the bones,
tendons and ligaments.  After that you could only
harden the muscle, and otherwise you got what you got.
I had that experience with a really talented Witez II
bred gelding that we didn't get until he was 12. He
had been out to pasture and done mostly ring work.  He
loved trail riding and won his first CTR.  By the time
I was ready for the open division he was having
soundness problems.  I managed to finish my first 50
on him with rim pads, but I wonder what he could have
been if he was conditioned earlier in life. So put on
those miles now!


               
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