On Dec 25, 2007 12:37 AM, Judy Ryder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How old is your horse in human years? > > http://iceryder.net/agerelationship.html
I'd like to challenge the validity of this chart. Seems that the way it has put the first few years, it would give justification for those people wanting to start horses early (ie show, racing and futurities). Who paid for this study? What criteria are they using -hormone production, bone growth? The horse racing industry-going under many different names, or a pharmaceutical company benefiting from drugs/supplements used by the racing industry are paying vets and vet schools lots of money, will release all kinds of studies to prove that they are not harming young horses by pushing them so hard so soon. Just because it is released as 'research' or 'study' doesn't necessarily mean that it is truly science based or can be reproduced. Even the contact lens industry pays for studies that as optometrists you have to sort thru to see if it is just a way for them to prove their material (read contact lens) or Ingredient (read solution or medication) is best. It's amazing how a head of the contact lens department at a world renowned college of Optometry can find a way to make the company who is paying for the study look good. A few months later another study 'proving' a competing company's material or ingredient is better. A lot of it has to do with what context is they are looking at or what their agenda is. A horse's spine doesn't fuse until it is 5 years old, how does this correspond to a 24 year old human. I have a problem with their premise that each horse year equals 6.5 years for the first 4 years. The later years may be accurate, but that doesn't matter to them. Seems to me they skewed this info to suit someones agenda. -- Anna Southern Ohio
