> I have done some experimenting with heart rates at the trot vs lope. A
> lot depends at what gait is the most comfortable for the horse. Racer has
> to be trotting awfully fast before I can switch to a lope & see a lower
> heart rate.Other horses I have ridden do have a lower rate at the lope then
> the same speed (mph) trot. HOWEVER on a horse I borrowed this year--We
> were trotting at a HR of about 140.When I dropped to a walk his HR began
> to drop immediately, slowly & steadily. When we would lope, his HR was
> 115-120,BUT when I dropped to a walk the HR would INCREASE to 150 or so
> before beginning to drop.I never went on to develop any profound
> conclusions as to which was "best", I was really just amusing myself.DIMR
> leads to doing strange things for fun!Nancy.
> Based on your post, I suspect that your heart monitor was not making good
> contact when you were loping and the increase you saw at the walk was the
> result of contact being made when you sat down at the walk-not an increase in
> heart rate.
Jerry Barfield
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I have almost all my horses shod at between 54 and 56 in front...less stress
on tendons and ligaments and most have a better pastern angle and actually
travel better that way. The back is about the same I might add.
Teddy
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On my "reply to all" button..it sends the message to everybody in my address
book...which I don't want since not everybody in my address book has
something to do with endurance or even horses (do you believe that...you mean
there IS a life beyond horses???)
Teddy