‘Training Off Syndrome’: Long term training, repeated hard racing in a carnival campaign, long term event training, severe or repeated metabolic episodes, such as ‘tying up’, and chronic respiratory infection, may have an individual or combined influence on an otherwise healthy horse to prevent it performing at its peak each time it races, or competes in high level equestrian competition. This is often referred to as ‘training off ’ although in many cases, few, if any, blood parameters are altered.
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