Re: spongeing at camp/IAHA Rides

[Teddy Lancaster <Teddy@runningbear.com>]

or not, my stallion, even at age 16, has a resting pulse of 24.  He consistently
got 32/36 in ten minutes after CTR's and 40/44 after a fast 50.  He does pass
this trait on....Also, my heart rate monitor ALWAYS tells me when he is serious
about a "woman" and when he's just saying "hello".  Stallions are an interesting
lot.

Teddy


CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 98-06-24 14:40:04 EDT, wind@visionsofthewind.com writes:
>
> <<  My stallion has outstanding
>  recoveries and is fully conditioned - yet his heartrate is consistantly
>  higher than 36 bpm! This is not an indication (IMHO) necessarily of an
>  unconditioned horse, but in our case, just active hormones! I'd hate to
>  lose to a lesser component just because the breeze shifted... >>
>
> I don't think it is hormones, either--I think it is just innate to the
> individual horse.  Some of the low pulse horses I have known are stallions,
> and some of the wind-sniffers are geldings.  But definitely anything 44 or
> lower is a clinically normal resting heart rate, and fitness determines how
> fast the horse returns to that rate, rather than necessarily making that rate
> lower.
>
> Heidi