Kentucky Performance Products: Winter Cool Down
Equine Guelph explains winter cool down procedure.
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Your winter workout regime will be different depending on a number of factors including whether your horse is clipped, blanketed, lives inside or outside, maintaining condition or working on higher intensity training. Your strategy for an unclipped horse living outside may be light workout producing little sweat just to maintain condition over the winter. Whatever your situation, time needs to be budgeted for your winter cool down.
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About Equine Guelph: Equine Guelph is the horse owners’ and care givers’ Centre at the University of Guelph in Canada. It is a unique partnership dedicated to the health and well-being of horses, supported and overseen by equine industry groups. Equine Guelph is the epicentre for academia, industry and government – for the good of the equine industry as a whole. For further information, visit www.equineguelph.ca.
About Kentucky Performance Products, LLC:
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