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I love the Dynamite electrolyte product.."DynaSpark" It has a molasses base 
that my horses love! I carry a little in a small squeeze bottle on my saddle 
at rides, and in the summer when it is hot and I am doing a long training 
ride (25 miles or more) in the heat. I can unzip the pouch on my saddle and 
my horse will reach around for it. I sometimes just squeeze a little on a 
carrot. Small amounts during the ride seem to work great!

Ranelle Rubin
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> From: "rides2far@xxxxxxxx" <rides2far@xxxxxxxx>
> To: splendacrest@xxxxxxxxxxx
> CC: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [RC]   Q2.  Electrolyte use
> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 13:25:40 GMT
>
> >>During regular training, however, I do add a small amount of e-
> lytes (as well as salt, magnesium and a mineral mix) to every feed.
> This is because of the area in which I live, the amount of work the
> horses do in training, and the type of natural pasture we have here.
> >>However it is probably because I am dosing the horses every day in
> >>>training, that I don't tend to dose them heavily at rides.
>
> My understanding was that this would be the worst thing you could do.
> >From what I've read the thing to do was not give them at home since
> you wanted the horse's body to be good at utilizing them frugally,
> then in competition give a little extra to a horse whose body had
> been trained to make the most of what it got. I never give them at
> home, do give them in comptition. The only REAL noticable change I
> ever had with or without was that I used the wrong kind of
> electrolytes at one ride (the kind meant for a foal with scours or
> whatever) and my horse got thumps. Other than that, any improvement
> or lack of improvement was hard enough to quantify with all the other
> variables that it was one of those "I *think* he does better"
> situations.
>
> I have cut back on electrolytes since I'm not racing up front right
> now and I finally got a good source of alfalfa which they really go
> for at the checks.  I'll be playing it by ear and reading what's
> written to decide what to do as we speed up.
>
> Angie
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