ridecamp@endurance.net: Re: [endurance] Lathering Vs. Sweating

Re: [endurance] Lathering Vs. Sweating

Wendy Milner (wendy@nsmdserv.cnd.hp.com)
Thu, 7 Mar 96 11:27:08 MST

I notice the difference in the color of the lathers.
For an unfit horse, the color seems to be yellow or brownish.
For a fit horse, the color will be a more pure white.

I think of it as follows. The unfit horse is sweating out the
impurites. Sweat will lather when rubbed by leather, cloth,
your hand, or leg on leg. The impurites make the lather a
yellowish color. Then as the horse becomes more fit, and has
already sweated out these impurities, first, they generally
sweat less so will lather less, but then what lather they
do get doesn't have the impurities so will be white.

(I say sweat less, meaning that at the same level of work,
the horse now fit, isn't working so hard, so isn't producing
as much sweat. Not that a fit horse doesn't sweat.)

--
Wendy


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