RE: Akhal Teke horses

["C Eyler" <eyler@mindspring.com>]

My gelding is certainly not an Akhal Teke, but he sure is narrow.  I've figured that that's a plus, since he's a QH who looks like he has a lot of appendix in his background.  He's got a deep heartgirth with a narrow trunk.  Better for cooling, but it sure is harder to get 'leg' on him.

 

When I get the heart rate monitor on him (which means he's all tacked up and ready to go), he has a HR of 38.

 

Now if we could just get rid of what seems to be a second abscess brewing.

 

Cindy Eyler

-----Original Message-----
From: Sharon Saare [mailto:sharonsaare@dellnet.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 5:02 PM
To: ridecamp@endurance.net
Subject: RC: Akhal Teke horses

Dear Mr. Sewell,

Thanks for your inquiry about Akhal Teke horses...I think the crosses will be very interesting to watch in endurance over the next few years.  Some of the top riders are taking an interest in them...one main reason is that they are narrow, narrow, narrow...

heat adds to fatigue...and wide horses just get hotter...

Its not by accident that the top horses in Europe and the USA...many of them...use my B tree in saddles, my number 2 narrowest tree...they simply cool off faster. 

Many of the Akhal Teke's I have fitted are A & B backs...my own 4 year old is an A back with AA shoulder...I expect him to

beef out..ha ha ...to a B in maturity...but took his Dam 10 years to reach a B.  Its important, especially since so many of our

horses in the Country today are E and DD backs...they hold a lot of heat.

I do know of Akahal Teke's for sale...call 303 678-5968

Sharon Saare