Many people don’t realize how much a horse loses fitness when not worked. For example, highly conditioned fit Arabians put in stalls with their only exercise being 30 minutes on a mechanical walker twice a day lost approximately 1% of the bone mineral content of the third metacarpal (cannon bone) every two weeks over 12 weeks. Cardiac changes with deconditioning were monitored for........
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