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The experiment involved a control group without water application, and three variants of water cooling applied to 19 warmblood geldings after medium-intensity effort. Cooling of lower, upper, and lower and upper body parts was performed. In each variant, the rectal and body surface temperatures were measured five times: before; immediately after; and 10, 20, and 30 min after effort. Using water cooling under the studied conditions did not influence a post-exercise decrease in the rectal temperature. The decrease in body surface temperature depended on the used variant of cooling down the horse. Cooling the limbs by pouring water several times changed the surface body temperature from 34.2 \u00b1 0.37 \u00b0C to 32.0 \u00b1 0.32 \u00b0C and was more efficient than the repeated application of cool water on both the upper and lower body parts, leading to a temperature change from 34.6 \u00b1 0.26 \u00b0C to 33.2 \u00b1 0.36 \u00b0C. 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