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1. Pick four different dates for experiment

2. Feed two pounds of sweet cob feed two hours before race

3. Leave in stall for one and a half hours to eat

4. Tack up horse thirty minutes before race

5. Warm up in arena for ten minutes

6. Have someone time your race (standard barrel pattern + rules)

7. Race and record time

8. Repeat steps #2-7 with two pounds of salted whole oat feed, two pounds of high protein alfalfa pellets, and natural hay on three different days.

Controlled

-Amount of food

-Distance of run

-Same arena

-Time fed, tacked up, warmed up

Manipulated

-Consuming different supplemented food

Responding

-Time ran

Experimental

-Time ran with normal feed (just hay)