The aim of this study was to evaluate the response of physical, hematological, and
biochemical parameters after acute intense exercise in polo horses playing in an outdoor …

Animal welfare and stress refer to the subjective experience of the animal, which depends
on its emotional and cognitive capacities to evaluate the situation it is in, to know its body …

player–pony dyad in Polo: lessons from other sports and future directions | Animal Frontiers |
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The aim of the study was to assess the effects of training on haematological and biochemical
blood parameters as well as on the changes in body surface temperature in horses. In order …

Simple Summary The sport of polo poses a variety of health risks to polo horses, including
lameness injury, joint disease, back problems, exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage …

Recent studies performed in humans and rats have reported that exercise can alter the
intestinal microbiota. Athletic horses perform intense exercise regularly, but studies …

This study aimed to investigate the use of maximum eye surface temperature (EST max),
recorded by infrared thermography, as an indicator of physical fitness in ranch horses. Data …

The aim of this study was to investigate the acute phase response (APR) in 15 horses by
quantifying physiological venous blood variables and serum acute phase proteins (APP) at …

This study examined the response in terms of heart rate (HR), respiratory rate (RR),
haematocrit (Htc), rectal temperature (RT), and some plasma variables in Icelandic horses of …

Sažetak The modifications of some biochemical parameters and serum electrolytes after a
simulated show jumping test were evaluated. On seven clinically healthy Italian saddle …