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That's not new. Gayle Ecker gave a wonder discussion of this at the AERC 
convention in the early 90's.

Truman

John Teeter wrote:
> There were discussions in MAS (primarily focused on the thoughts of 
> Peter Toft) about the role that the core body temp, ambient 
> temp/humidity, and cooling ability of the horse. Thoughts being that 
> there may be situations where the ambient context of a competition may 
> drastically alter the possible competitive nature of an event (i.e. in 
> some places you just can't go as fast b/c the horse is not capable of 
> cooling themselves effectively in those contexts). The core body temp 
> starts to go up and metabolic distress follows.
>
> Not related to electrolytes, but necessitating extremes in cooling to 
> occur more frequently or significantly slowing the overall competition 
> speed.
>
> jt
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