{"id":2416,"date":"2009-07-15T01:49:14","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T18:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=2416"},"modified":"2009-07-15T01:49:14","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T18:49:14","slug":"rider-pressure-affects-horse-tack-evaluation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/rider-pressure-affects-horse-tack-evaluation\/","title":{"rendered":"RIDER PRESSURE AFFECTS HORSE TACK EVALUATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #cc0000; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px;\">The force a rider exerts on the horse&#8217;s back will shift depending on his or her position and should be included in any evaluation of tack pressure, researchers recently reported. &#8220;You need a force that is distributed over a certain area to make a good evaluation of the saddle pressure, therefore saddle measurements should be performed with a rider,&#8221; said Patricia de Cocq, MSc, DVM, of Wageningen University in The Netherlands. &#8220;The load distribution underneath the saddle should be as equal as possible to prevent saddle sores.&#8221;\u00a0<a style=\"color: #cc0000; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/maestro-trk.bloodhorse.com\/trk\/click?ref=zqoqmnmb8_1-1423x37b26x111372&amp;\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The force a rider exerts on the horse&#8217;s back will shift depending on his or her position and should be included in any evaluation of tack pressure, researchers recently reported. &#8220;You need a force that is distributed over a certain area to make a good evaluation of the saddle pressure, therefore saddle measurements should be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry","category-thehorse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2417,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416\/revisions\/2417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}