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According to THE U.S.CAVALRY MANUAL OF HORSE MANAGEMENT (1941) a horse should not carry more than 20 percent of its own weight.
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Read More »According to THE U.S.CAVALRY MANUAL OF HORSE MANAGEMENT (1941) a horse should not carry more than 20 percent of its own weight. This edict was routinely exceeded, soldier and equipment regularly weighing 250 lbs. Researchers at Duchy College, in Cornwall, England, studied horse impact from 50 riders executing 45-minute workouts and they too came up with the 20 percent recommendation. This was ascertained by monitoring the release of creation kinase, an enzyme present in the muscle and released into the blood to restore muscle damage. This enzyme is triggered when an increasing heart rate releases plasma lactate to levels the horse’s body cannot metabolize. Of course, the scientists noted that impact on the horses varied greatly. Those with wider loins and thicker cannon bones recovered more quickly. Experienced riders know fit of saddle is vital. For most of the 5,000 years men have been riding horses they have used them to go places to kill each other. Pleasure riding, as we know it today, is maybe 100 years old! The earliest warriors rode bareback and all horses were sored within three days. As weapons and armor increased in weight, so did the structures needed to carry them on the back of a horse. Attila the Hun was the first to use a saddle in war, figuring spreading the bearing weight over a greater area would make the horse less sore. He was a PSI pioneer! Attila stole this idea from the Sarmatians (400 BC) who built a wooden “casing” on a horse so they would not be ejected when they ran a lance through an enemy ground soldier. They invented mounted lance warfare. The Romans soon visited Attila’s discovery but were quick to establish weight limits. “Cloak bags” were not to weigh more than 35 lbs, saddles not more than 56 lbs. Add this to 200 lbs of an average armed warrior and the Roman warhorse carried 300 lbs, well over 30 percent of its weight. A soldier with equipment was around 320 lbs. For the British Desert Mounted Corps in Palestine and Syria (1917-1918) the typical weight carried was 290lbs, “all day and every day,” according to saddle historian Major G. Tylden. Hitler had the most mechanized Army the world had ever seen, yet he had three million horses under his command. They carried 250 lbs to protect his Tiger Tanks. For the war in Afghanistan, I saddled 130 horses for the US Special Ops, also designing scabbards for their M4s. Those horses packed 250 lbs. Today, for the first time in the long man/horse partnership we are not eating them or causing them to die in battle. We are actually enjoying them and, I like to believe, they are enjoying us. Ironically, all this feel-good stuff has happened as humans have grown SUBSTANTIALLY. In the last 50 years we have outgrown airplane seats, cars, furniture and houses. When I started putting Americans in Australian stock saddles in 1979 the average seat size (Australian) was 16”. Today it is 17” and rising. But the horse has NOT changed. Clearly, humans and horse are on a weight-impact collision course.
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