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- Title
Assessing fitness in endurance horses.
- Authors
Fraipont, Audrey; Van Erck, Emmanuelle; Ramery, Eve; Fortier, Guillaume; Lekeux, Pierre; Art, Tatiana
- Abstract
The article presents a study which assesses the ability of a field exercise test (FT) among endurance horses. The study used field and standardized treadmill tests, clinical examinations and blood analyses, and a telemetry electrocardiogram (ECG) system. Results show that the test has discriminated the horses of different race levels, and those horses which race to 120 kilometer (km) and more showed higher values of velocity at which blood lactate reached 4 millimole per liter (mmol/L) (VLA4).
- Subjects
FIELD research; ENDURANCE horses; BLOOD testing; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; BLOOD lactate
- Publication
Canadian Veterinary Journal / Revue Vétérinaire Canadienne, 2012, Vol 53, Issue 3, p311
- ISSN
0008-5286
- Publication type
Article