Ness barn raided at Tampa

Originally Posted by docicu3

The degree of acidemia dictates how much the horse has to breathe to offset the acidosis. If the Ph is neutral you dont have eo waste all that minute ventilation or respiratory rate. 1.There comes a time when an acidotic horse or human cannot breathe fast enough to offset the lactic acid and the horse slows down.
2. It only helps if your horse can run to begin with it does not make a horse faster

1. You mean not able to breathe fast enough as to not go anaerobic?
(Or even if you could breathe fast enough, your O2 uptake and transport to muscle could not maintain the ability to keep going Krebs ETS?)

2. Yep. I have personally experienced the true meaning of slow as I age.

Sorry for all the questions.