Re: RC: re: Stride Length

[BMcCrary27@aol.com]

In a message dated 4/21/99 10:57:36 PM Pacific Daylight Time, Tivers@AOL.COM 
writes:

<< A paper just came out in human research saying that a longerstride made 
the 
 athlete more prone to injury (increased vertical acceleration) and more 
 quickly fatigued (additional energy cost). I wonder how much of that is true 
 with horses. >>

I've had four endurance horses develop injured suspensories, and I kept 
wondering what I was doing wrong.  I finally figured out the common 
denominator: I love a horse with a blazing fast trot.  Each of these horses 
either had, or developed a very fast trot, even though three of the four were 
only 14.2 or 14.3 hands.  The fast trot was achieved by tremendous reach, 
thus hyper-extension leading to injured suspensories.

Barbara McCrary


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