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Unless horses are very different than people, acclimatization to drastic 
changes just plain takes time.  Last time I looked it up the US Army tried 
very hard to give troops moved into drastically different climates two weeks 
to adjust.  If I were to be writing the rules for a hot humid WEC I would 
insist on at least 2 weeks on site or a week on site if coming from another 
hot humid country.

I don't think FEI thinks this way.  On Endurance.net the article about 
planning for 2008 Olympics talked about transporting horses and the hot 
humid climate in Beijing.  They were aiming for 10 days and mentioned 
something about "air conditioned" stalls.  I would specify "ventilated" 
stalls, but not "air conditioned".  Perhaps it is a mistranslation from some 
European language.

Ed
Ed & Wendy Hauser
2994 Mittower Road
Victor, MT 59875

(406) 642-9640

ranch(at)sisuwest(dot)us 



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