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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | My mare ran this weekend after being off a full year due to injury. When I was in the holding pens I started noticing I could feel her heart beat under my leg. I noticed it was really fast. I was still about 15 away so I let her sit there and relax because she can get hot. It slowed down and I couldn't feel it anymore. I when to the other holding pen where the next 5 go and it started back but this time much faster and I could feel it more. My daddy was in there with me I told him and he started rubbing her and talking to her and it slowed back down. She's the kind that goes in the corner and stands until her turn. When I turned her around to go to the alley it started agin. I've had her for years and I noticed this before but never this bad. My first concern is her having a heart attack. Is this something I should worry about or could it just be excitement sea ally since she does get hot wanting to go. |
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Are you sure it is her heart you are feeling and not your own adrenaline making your heart race?? and your Dad's voice and attention calming you down??
Taking a horses pulse is difficult and even with a stethoscope you have to be right on target to feel and count the pulses ....
This excellent video may explain it much better than I can ...
http://youtu.be/YDnvyOW9IEg
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Location: Pacific Northwest | My mare does that...I've never felt it with any other horse I've ran, only her. It usually starts when I start to get nervous and she feels it, and I don't think it's my own pulse because I feel it down in my calves and only there. |
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | livexlovexrodeo - 2014-04-21 12:00 AM
My mare does that...I've never felt it with any other horse I've ran, only her. It usually starts when I start to get nervous and she feels it, and I don't think it's my own pulse because I feel it down in my calves and only there.
Exactly. Just in my calf muscle. We checked mine just to be sure but it wasn't nearly as fast |
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Location: Never in one place long | I can feel my mares heart beat before I run, she's very hyper and gets herself worked up, I've only had one other horse that I've felt their heartbeat and he too was very hyper. |
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Location: Missouri | I can also feel my horse's heart thumping before a race. We stand still once in the holding pen, so I think that's why I notice it verses other horses where I've had to keep them moving/circling. |
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 Miss Laundry Misshap
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| I've felt it on my gelding after he hears my name being called over the loudspeaker. |
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | Glad I'm not the only one. Since other people notice it too I'll assume its normal. |
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Location: Arizona | I have a mare I can feel it on too. What's funny is the majority of the posters above have all felt it on mares. Hmmmmmm. |
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Location: Pa | I've felt it on my gelding also, and it scared me. Also was thinking if I could feel it that much, he might just drop. =[ |
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 Am I really the Weirdo?
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Location: Kansas | I feel it on all my geldings. Chance will do that even if he's just being a gate buddy and hasn't been warmed up for a run. Matt has noticed it when he's helped me get Joker in at nasty mud rodeos. |
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Location: Central Iowa, surrounded by corn! | My nervous Nelly gelding, trembles all over like he is freezing in a howling blizzard! People have commented asking if he is alright? Yep, it is just him being him! |
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | mgcpny - 2014-04-21 2:59 PM
I've felt it on my gelding also, and it scared me. Also was thinking if I could feel it that much, he might just drop. =[
I watched a horse a couple years ago have a heart attack right there in the middle of the alley seconds after winning the barrel race. So it's always made me paranoid about her rapid heart beat. I was right by the alley and that not something you easly forget. |
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Location: Texas | I have never had a horse that I DIDN'T feel the heartbeat on... when we start towards the alley to make a run I want to feel that heartbeat, it let's me know that they're ready to run. So yes, it's totally normal.
Let me add that my horses are pretty quiet till it's time to run, so it's easy to feel those changes in their heart rate.
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