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twitching muscles.



Susan Evans Garlinghouse wrote:
> 
> ...The average muscle fiber composition of the main driving
> muscles have a fairly high percentage of fast twitch muscles (those
> meant for short-term, high-power exercise, like sprints or pulling 
> alot of weight) as opposed to the slow twitch muscle, meant for
> long-duration, relatively low energy exercise like endurance.

Do those muscles change with conditioning, or is it something
that the horse is born with and that's that?

Is they change, then theoretically, as spooky horses get more 
conditioning, then their propensity for leaping sideways should 
diminish, right?...

...have you noticed this with Tony, Tina?
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