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Re: [RC] - kathy . mayedaI'd be interested in what the vet has to say. I rode my 17 y.o. mare up a hill this last weekend and she appeared to be thumping too. I could feel her heart beat through the saddle in time with her panting. After she caught her breath, she was absolutely fine the rest of the ride, even while trotting up some pretty good hills. She's a half-sister to my endurance horse and was at the same facility for her developmental years, so I wonder if it's genetics or the fact that they were raised on 100% alfalfa cubes. My endurance horse thumps too.
She's done this once before on a training ride. Since the first incident she's done her one and only endurance event last year - a 30 mile LD - absolutely without any such incident.
The non-endurance rider friend that I was riding with thinks it's a "redhead" thing because she said she could feel heavy heart beats after excercise on the chestnut mares she was riding in her youth!
K.
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