Exercise and the height of horses.
The heights of 89 horses were measured at the withers before and after half a furlong of trotting exercise. The mean (+/- sd) height increase after exercise was 1.75 +/- 0.86 cm and the horses returned to their resting height within seven minutes. There was no linear relationship between gain in height and pre-exercise height.
D000818:Animals; D001699:Biometry; D006736:Horses / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D005082:Physical Exertion