And Night, the fantastical, comes now
Horses are the only species other than man transported around the world for competition purposes.
In humans, transport across several time zones can result in adverse symptoms commonly referred to as jetlag.
Can changes in the light/dark cycle, equivalent to those caused by transport across several time zones, affect daily biological rhythms, and performance in equine athletes?
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We found that horses do feel a change in the light/dark cycle very acutely, but they also recover very quickly, and this resulted in an improvement in their performance rather than a decrease in their performance, which was exactly the opposite of what we thought was going to happen.
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