Delayed Sweating Response

[Charliest]

Hi Guys, hope you can advise, im just not sure if i should be worried or not. I have a fit and healthy 7yr old TB who works 5/6 days a week, a good mix of things but never any focus around endurance type fitness, mainly building him up muscle/topline. He would hack forever and never really gets tired, schooling wise i only do a maximum of 30 minutes or so, he gets bored more than tired.

Anyway, enough pre-amble. I was lunging yesterday, just 20 minutes or so, by no means a hard session for him, it was warm but not boiling (low 20's). He sweat slightly under the surcingle but nowhere else. I felt i cooled him off adequately (a good 10 minutes walking). Washed him off where he had sweat, and put him away. Twenty minutes or so later I came round to find he had some slight sweat marks on his neck. Otherwise absolutely fine in himself, I got him out again and quietly walked him for a bit longer, he was his normal self entirely and was this morning too.

Am i being paranoid, could it just have been the day being muggy and him still being slightly warm after work, or could this be a sign of tying up?

Thank you in advance

 

[SEL]

If you popped him in the stable after washing off then its likely to be residual heat + humid weather + lack of circulating air in stable. Back when mine still sweated her tying up came with sweat pouring off her.

No other signs of distress like heavy breathing?

 

[Charliest]

Nothing out of the usual apart from the sweat patch. It did not feel particularly warm but you are right the air in the stable is stagnant.

 

[Shay]

Patchy sweating is a sign of quite a range of nasty things - but the overwhelmingly likely thing is as SEL says - still air and residual heat. Don't worry (in as much as you have control of that!).