Le cheval athlète d'endurance

Equestrian endurance has been booming internationally in recent years. It is a demanding discipline, whose success in free speed events results from an accumulation of small details that ensure that the good horse arrives in good shape at the right moment in the good race...

Amateur riders, breeders, trainers and veterinarians, this practical guide, focused on the endurance horse, gives you scientific notions and key elements to improve your practices and techniques in this extreme sport and address your concerns in the work of the endurance horse: selection (breed, morphology, locomotion, origins), physical and mental preparation (training, nutrition), and the management in competition (elimination risks, race alert criteria...) are detailed.

The research results of the following programmes are presented throughout this guide

    «Physiologie Sportive du Cheval d'Endurance» (2004),

   - PEPCE (2008),

   - MAPCE (2009),

   - GenEndurance (2011),

   - GenEndurance 2.0 (2016-2018).

The author, Dr Céline Robert is a veterinarian and professor at the veterinary school of Alfort. She notably co-directed the GenEndurance project with Eric Barrey.