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When the horse was a significant factor in travel and warfare, the question was of wide interest and importance. In the modern era the question arises most often, in my experience, with endurance trail ride horses and horses used for police work. The matter is rarely mentioned in modern books and, if mentioned, the statement is usually that a horse can carry 20 percent of its own body weight.

Veterinarian Frederick Smith addressed this question in “The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics” in 1898, and again in the several editions of

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