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Discussion on Long distance riding
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Mientjie
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Posted on Monday, Sep 4, 2006 - 1:53 pm:
My mare has been diagnosed with EPSM in April and after starting her new diet improved a LOT. Yesterday morning she had another tie-up episode in a long time. The vet gave her injected her and she her normal happy (very fresh  ) self again today.
We are planning to do a pleasure ride in October. The distance we will be travelling is 25km. Is this bad for my mare? Will it hurt her? I don't want to take any chances with her she 's the so special to me. Any advice on what I should do?
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DrO
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Posted on Monday, Sep 4, 2006 - 5:27 pm:
Unfortunately your question is not answerable from here, but you with the help of your vet can make a good estimate on the question. Whether she could do this type work depends on how badly she is effected, how well you are managing it, how fast she is responding to management, the kind of riding you do, the condition she is in, how stressful the weather is that day and etc, etc, etc. And given all that, even horses not effected with EPSM can have serious tying up issues with such a ride. I guess I am saying, "it depends and it depends a lot on you". I will say, if she is still having tying up episodes and you have not begun training for this ride, you should boot this ride given your stated objectives.
Following a tying up episode you should start by making sure you are doing all you can to address the EPSM issues (see the article) then go back a step in the training program and slow down your progress. If you do the increases in exercise level slowly and regularly you have less chance of hurting her when she starts having complications.
DrO
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