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February 2007
Contents
Bradley: Restraint - The Horse's Perspective
*British Horse Society Inundated
Purple Pony: Equal Hands
*I'm scared to lengthen my reins!
Teachers Can't Teach
Damage to the Poll Eighty Percent
Manolo: Balance and Rhythm
Brilliance vs Harmony
Solving Flexion
Books over Instructors
Anja Beran: Control Marker - the Walk
Beudant: Perfection
You Be The Judge!
Heart-Hoof- Horse Connection
*Dancing With Horses
What do you think dressage is?
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Horses For LIFE April 2008 Edition
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January 2008 Training the Friesian
December 2007 - Nuno Video
November 2007 - Alexander Nevzorov
October 2007 Filipe Graciosa
September 2007 Freedom of Movement
August 2007 Walk Aids
July 2007 Habituation
June 2007 True Collection
May 2007 Perfect Spanish Walk
April 2007 Philippe Karl in America?
March 2007 X-ray Bits
February 2007 Dancing With Horses
January 2007 Langsamer Treiben
December 2006 Draw Reins
November 2006 Kissing Spines
October 2006 Picking an Instructor
September 2006 Anniversary Edition
August 2006 Diagonalization
July 2006 Those Crazy Frenchmen
June 2006 Rollkur
May 2006 Decontraction
April 2006 Taine and Lesage
March 2006 Changing Conformation
February 2006 East meets West
January 2006 Portugal
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FEBRUARY 2007 • VOLUME 18 • © HORSES For LIFE™ Magazine

Horses have a big heart – or?

Horses are large animals and are often thought of as animals with big hearts. Not only because they are so very generous, but quite literally in terms of heart size to body weight. If that only were true, so many unexplained, sudden deaths would simply not happen. As a matter of fact, the horse’s heart is rather small. It is about 0.5% of the horse’s bodyweight. In comparison, the size of the heart of a dog or cat is 1% of his body weight.

What is behind that design? Not only does the horse have a small heart, but it also has long legs and the lower extremities have no muscle to help pump the blood to the far reaches of the hooves.




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