Warming up horses properly, pre-race, helps prevent leg and muscle injuries. Do horses warm-up before racing? Active warm-up prior to racing An active warm-up programme will begin with aerobic exercise such as walking and trotting, to raise heart rate (but Read more…
In Scientific Racegoing they equate the speed of a horse at the end of a race as 5 lengths per second, and this is then used in calculating a Speed Rating of race and then for each horse in that Read more…
The work load is slowly built up to three quarter pace and then to even time, which is the pace achieved by a horse running 15 seconds to the furlong (around 200m). What are evens in horse racing? uncountable noun. Read more…
When measuring the distance between two jumps the convention is to allow 6 feet for the landing of the first jump and 6 feet for the take off of the second one. How is horse jump distance measured? Measure the Read more…
Pace is the rate horses run during a race and handicappers analyze pace because it directly impacts the outcome of a race. Before computers, horseplayers had to calculate their own Pace Ratings if they wanted to know how fast a Read more…
Free The Horse’s Back Posting trot is often the choice of riders who want their horses to move strong and fast and not have to bear the weight of the rider long term. Posting will also save the rider’s back, Read more…
Small 90–110cm suits very fine ponies and horses. Medium 100–125cm suits ponies and lighter build horses. Large 115–140cm suits large native ponies, cobs and horses. How long should a neck strap be? Measure the Strap – Take some string and Read more…
Treeless saddles can be useful for all types of trail riding because most pressure points are eliminated. Many horses move much better without a tree. While it is commonly believed that a tree distributes the rider’s weight better, trail horses Read more…
heaves, also called broken wind, chronic disorder of the lungs of horses and cows, characterized by difficult breathing and wheezy cough. The symptoms are worsened by vigorous exercise, sudden weather changes, and overfeeding. Heaves resulting from bronchitis may be associated Read more…
NSC is calculated by adding the starch and water soluble carbohydrate (WSC) fractions of a feed together. However, not all WSCs contribute to a blood glucose spike, because not all of it’s absorbed in to the blood stream from the Read more…