Similarities Between Equine Respiratory System and NASCAR
Aug 30th 2019
What’s the difference between a performance horse and a race
car? Well, aside from the obvious fact that one is living, and one is not, when
you look at both through a conceptual lens, you’d see that they are actually
quite similar. After all, there’s a reason race cars are gauged in horsepower.But now let’s take a look under the hood. Race cars are powered by engines and performance horses are p
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Keeping Horses Safe in Equine Sports: FLAIR Strips
Jul 9th 2019
Across all sports, both contact and non-contact, elite athletes of all shapes and sizes are bound to run into performance related issues and complications. Be it on the practice field or the playing field, athletes at the highest levels of performance are particularly susceptible to a wide range of injuries given their repetitive training routines and/or high-intensity, high-impact work environmen
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How Improving Oxygen Intake Impacts Horse Performance
Jul 2nd 2019
By the time a horse touches hooves to the finish line after a five-furlong race, gone a sixth of the way around a 3-star cross-country course, or made it to the end of a Grand Prix show jumping round, he will have cycled approximately 475 gallons of air into and out of his lungs. To help visualize this: Imagine the average American bathtub “filled it with air” and then added five more tubs next to
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The Health of Your Horse is in Your Hands
Jun 24th 2019
As a horse owner, you have a very important role to fill. Not only are you tasked with the responsibility of providing food, water and shelter for your horse, but you are also their personal caretaker – you clean up after them and make sure they are groomed, loved, well-conditioned, and everything in between. If you think about it, the dynamic between you and your horse isn’t too different than th
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