Thursday News & Notes from Kentucky Equine Research

Phillip Dutton & Fernhill Revelation. Photo via Phillip Dutton Eventing.

Phillip Dutton & Fernhill Revelation. Photo via Phillip Dutton Eventing.

Phillip is celebrating his winning weekend at Stable View by welcoming a new upper level horse to the barn! Fernhill Revelation “Warren” is a 10-year-old ISH gelding that was produced to the CCI3* level by Fraser Duffy and is now owned by the Revelation Group, which is comprised of Caroline Moran, David Garrett, Dave and Patricia Vos, Tom Tierney and Carol Gee. Warren will run the CIC2* in just a few weeks at the Virginia Horse Trials and then step back up to the 3* level next spring after Phillip gets to know him better.

Events This Week:

FEH Championships at Loch Moy Farm: [Website] [Entry Status]

The Maryland HT at Loch Moy Farm: [Website] [Entry Status]

Spokane Sport Horse Farm Fall HT: [Website] [Entry Status]

Heritage Park HT: [Website] [Entry Status]

The Event at Skyline: [Website] [Entry Status]

Feather Creek HT: [Website] [Entry Status]

Woodside International HT: [Website] [Entry Status]

Middle Tennessee Pony Club HT: [Website]

Course Brook Farm Fall HT: [Website]

WindRidge Farm Fall HT: [Website]

Radnor Hunt HT: [Website] [Entry Status]

Las Cruces HT: [Website] [Entry Status]

Kent School Fall HT: [Website]

News From Around the Globe:

The Virginia Horse Center will be welcoming any horses that  need to be evacuated due to Hurricane Matthew. The hurricane is expected to make landfall on the eastern coast of the U.S. on Thursday morning and effect Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina over the weekend. With 745 stalls available, this is an incredible resource for those attempting to evacuate before the hurricane. There will be no charge for stabling evacuated hoses. A $20 stall cleaning deposit will be taken when horses arrive on the property. Feed, shavings and hay are available for purchase and camp sites are available at $40 + tax per night. [VAHC Offers Refuge to Horses]

Reed Kessler announced via Facebook yesterday that she has sold her Olympic partner, Cylana. The mare will be flying back to the states soon to be partnered with 20-year-old amateur rider Cloe Hymowitz, who purchased her for $3 million dollars and will be continuing her education under the tutelage of Brianne Goutal. The Hymowitz family has also promised to return Cylana to Reed when it becomes her time to retire, so that she can enjoy a field of luscious grass at the Kessler farm. [Reed Kessler Sells Cylana]

Willow Draw in Weatherford Texas has two very exciting additions to their horse trials for 2016 and 2017. The November 5th Charity Show will be benefitting St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital’s “Saddle Up For St. Jude” fundraising event, specifically aimed at funding research to defeat life-threatening childhood diseases. In addition to that, they have been approved to host a CCI* and a CIC* for the fall of 2017, adding two much needed FEI divisions to the Area V schedule. [Saddle Up for St Jude]

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KER ClockIt™ Session of the Week

This week’s KER ClockIt™ Sport session demonstrates the effectiveness of using hills to improve a horse’s fitness. Looking at the graph below, you will see a horse doing two canter sets up Nelson’s hill in Pennsylvania. The blue line is altitude, the purple line is heart rate, and the orange line is speed.

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As you can see, the horse’s heart rate increases significantly each time the horse goes up a hill. By using a hill, riders can easily raise their horse’s heart rate into a higher conditioning zone without the need for extreme speed.

Multiple KER treadmill studies have shown that exercising horses on an incline greatly increases work intensity as measured by oxygen consumption, heart rate, and lactate production. These studies have shown that at a canter speed, a 1% increase in grade increases a horse’s heart rate 6 bpm—the same effect on heart rate as increasing speed 35m/min on a level treadmill. Therefore, equal heart rates can be obtained by cantering horses on a 6% grade at 490 m/min as from galloping on the flat at 700 m/min.

To see a detailed report like the one above, go to the KER ClockIt website and log in to your account. Once you are signed in, you can view your detailed sessions under the “Sessions” tab.

Don’t forget to share your ClockIt sessions for a chance to win the KER and Eventing Nation Show Us Your Sessions Sweepstakes. Between now and October 28, use the GPS on your KER ClockIt Sport app to draw or write something fun and submit your sessions for chances to win.

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