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My personal experience. When we went out to Utah in 1996 for the ROC, it 
was a long haul (5 hard days). I was going to be working out of Denver 
that summer so we went out about 3 weeks prior. It did get humid for ROC 
day (if you consider 25% to be humid). My horse did fine with the three 
weeks - but a lot of the western horses were having problems with the 
conditions that day and there were a lot of treatments because of it. We 
said - humidity what humidity. It took about 4 or 5 days for me to 
recover from the drive.

We came back about the 3rd week of Aug to hot and muggy FL. We went to N 
GA to do a ride the first part of Sept. I damn near died from the 
humidity and I pulled my poor horse at 30 miles into the 100 because the 
humidity was getting to her. It really took about two months to get 
reacclimated. The thing that amazed me was it doesn't take long to lose 
acclimation to humidity but it takes a lot longer to get it back.

Truman

Nik Isahak Abdullah wrote:
> If I am moving my horses from Malaysia to ride/race in say a' milder ' 
> climate{cool and dry ] like Dubai in december I would fly in taday 
> ,rest tomorrow to settle the kinks of travel and race the next day 
> .This in order not to let my horses superior evaporative capability 
> and ability to withstand the stresses of heat and humidity 
> ,acclimatise to the milder local conditions .On the other hand if I am 
> moving on to a hersher condition like from LA in november to Kuala 
> Lumpur ,Malaysia ,Steph is right that 2 weeks is about optimal for the 
> horses to acclimtise .This is with the proviso the US horses are 
> already at their peak performance ,that 2 weeks represent the typical 
> T.I ivers peakdown or scaledown in activity .
> JMGF .Just my gut feeling .
> Dont be unduly worried about horses and riders not prepared having" 
> crashes".These unprepared speed demons would be weeded out by phase or 
> at the most 3 ,going by our previous experience .We unofficially 
> define speed demons here as someone going beyond 15 kph average beyond 
> phase 1 .That coincidentally is the new CoC.


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“It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how 
smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong” Richard 
Feynman, Nobel Laureate in Physics


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