Exercise testing is crucial for assessing Warmblood sport horses’ fitness and readiness for competition. This review highlights the need for standardized tests across disciplines to accurately evaluate performance and injury risk.
Monitoring training loads in horses is crucial for performance and injury prevention. This study examined workload impacts in elite eventers.
This study explored the effects of pre-cooling on eventing horses’ heart rates, temperatures, and sweat loss during exercise, aiming to improve performance and welfare in heat.
Horses training in heat face greater heat stress. Olympic horses were trained in simulated heat to study adaptation to hot, humid competition climates.