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RE: [RC] General cooling with water - heidi

Sheila, it depends on the humidity.  If the humidity is high, then very little evaporation occurs, and the effect you describe is what happens if you don't scrape the water off.  If humidity is low, then evaporation causes cooling.
 
Heidi
 
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Subject: [RC] General cooling with water
From: Sheila_Larsen@xxxxxxx
Date: Thu, November 13, 2008 9:05 am
To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


In my post about cooling with ice I said that I put the water on and then
scrap it off. I do that but I thought I would pass on what I remember of a
study done of putting water on a horse. The take home msg was always scrap
the water off when using water to cool. If you leave the water without
scraping it off (and this is where my memory gets a little shaky) water
that is trapped between the hair and skin causes the heat to be retained
and you do not get the cooling effect that you should. That may not be
absolutely correct the the again the take home msg was cooling with water
and not scraping does not providing the cooling effect you may think you
are getting. I believe I read that in either Equus or The Horse.
Thanks,
Sheila
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And Allah took a handful of southerly wind, blew His breath over it, and
created the horse.... Thou shall fly without wings, and conquer without any
sword. Oh, horse. ~Bedouin Legend


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