Recently, considerable attention has been paid to “living high and training low” due to athletic performance being enhanced with acclimation to low oxygen conditions while training in the presence of normal oxygen concentrations. While a number of physiological adaptations to high altitude in humans have been published, relatively few reports exist regarding the responses of horses to similar conditions. The goal of this work was to evaluate whether horses could be acclimated to a high-altitude chamber (HAC) and to monitor the performance of those horses.
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