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<< Hi Tom and others,
Thanks for the answers, which are confirming what I was thinking, but what I
don't understand is why even the french riders are using that recipe and I
saw also the groom of Sergio Tomassi crewing for Qatar doing the same thing.
But then I formulate my question on another way : which king of food to give
*during* the race, of better not to give anything and let the horse a free
choise at the stop after the vetgates?
Anyway thanks and greetings from Belgium
Leonard >>
There is a myth about "free choice" that the animal knows best what his body
needs. Untrue. A horse that desperately needs water may not drink. A horse
that needs carbohydrate may not eat grain. We're thinking that a syringeable
paste would be the best solution.
The ideal ongoing energy provider might best be something like Gator Aid, or
those granola bars (or whatever they are) that marathoners are using. We're
exploring a number of articles currently appearing in Runner's World for
sample formulas.
Basically, you have three distinctly different sugar applicaitons: Glycogen
loading before the race (long chain sugars), rebound feeding after the race
(short chain sugars, and during-race quick energy (this is the unknown area,
although those of you who have used one of the glycogen loaders I passed out
suggest that even long-chain sugars are quite useful, at the rate of 2oz
every 2 hours. One of you reported no difference--but I believe that this was
the result of intelligent caution on the rider's part. We have to sneak up
on these things--first rule, do no damage.
ti
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