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for those of you who may not have made it through Merri's recent post:

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Ron and I talked about electrolytes - he never feeds them except a  
handful of table salt a few days before an endurance ride. They need  
to be hydrated before they go to the ride, he says; you don’t work on  
hydrating your horse during a ride. You teach your horse to drink on  
the trail when you’re out training: come to water, put him in the  
middle of it, don’t let him eat grass, wait till he drinks - and he  
won’t need electrolytes, especially if you’ve brought him to the ride  
hydrated. Teach him to stay there and drink while everybody else is  
galloping by. Trying to get him to learn to drink during the ride is  
too late. “Two minutes lost in a ride watering my horse saves me 5  
minutes down the trail because my horse won’t be as stressed.”
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http://www.endurance.net/merri


for what it's worth:)

jt



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