Current management and training practices for UK dressage horses

Comparative Exercise Physiology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 73-83

  Walters, J M ^a   Parkin, T ^a   Snart, H A ^a   Murray, R C ^a  

^a ANIMAL HEALTH TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

dressage; equine; exercise; stable management; training

Indexed keywords

EID: 84982146996     PISSN: 17552540     EISSN: 17552559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1478061508017040     Document Type: Article

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