AVS-4160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Perfusion, Trachea, Recurrent Airway Obstruction
1 Nov 2016
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When purchasing a horse, focus as much on prior training and handling as you do on bloodlines and genetics. A horse should have a body condition score between 4 and 6. Different training methods may work better for one horse than another. A horse"s housing should be designed to prevent injury and also prevent negative ramifications from being too confined. Track surfaces affect a horse"s training: surface type, depth, care. Horses may become accustomed to one rider, driver, or jockey. Interval training (switching between a high and low heart rate) is not good for racehorses. Horses cannot modify their muscle fibers to be more type one or more type two. A horse can become very fit by swimming, but also needs to do weight-bearing exercise to make the bone stronger and prepare it for the concussion that it will experience when exercising on the land. Fast twitch oxidative muscles (type 2a) are an intermediate muscle fiber type.
