E.M.T. HORSES - NEWS GALLERY

"ROCKY" ("Rock Salmon")

Rocky is being prepared to go back into training.

Yes, even a racehorse does not escape the benefit of simple suppling exercies to tone and strengthen the muscles its requires for racing.

Rocky particularly needs work to strengthen his lumbar muscles as he is prone to pelvic rotations and hamstring strains.

Rowena is riding a little short for such work but Rocky is known for his big bucks!

Rocky


"HERO" ("Hero Worship")

   


"BOBBIE"

   



"MURPHY" (Murphy's Law - former racehorse)

WE needed to encourage Murphy to work through and over his back, something that he was most reluctant to do due to both previously injury and general stiffness. He was generally very stiff throughout his whole body and a visit from our Chiropractor, Georgina Sim, confirmed our thoughts with regard to what we felt was physicaly amiss with Murphy.

ALTHOUGH he began to "drop" well, then was inclined to go onto his forehand, preferring to pull himself along rather than propel himself from behind. He was not "off the leg" and this did not help our cause.

THE picture below was taken just one month later.

MURPHY proved to be quite tetchy in the mouth and was reluctant to take a contact - and when he did, he went over the bit rather than onto it. We switched to a Myler Combination bit (comfort snaffle mouthpiece) to encourage him to go forward from the leg and into the hand. Canter work initially resulted in much tension and disuniting as Murphy felt he couldn't canter unless he trotted fast first with his head in the air! Using the Myler enabled us to "hold" Murphy in the trot but without him feeling mouth pressure therby teaching him to break to canter from a regulated speed.

OK, so there is still plenty to do, but Murphy is looking a transformed horse.

MURPHY has now gone home but continues to have regular training with us and in fact came to see us on 12th October. He is much more settled now and more readily accepts being corrected rather than "losing the plot" if he became a bit flustered. Click here for updates.


"BOMBIE" (Light the Fuse - former racehorse) training at Paul Hayler's.

AS Bombie progresses into Elementary he must show more engagement behind and that he can take more weight behind in order to achieve the degree of collection required at this level. So after a good warm up with plenty of leg-yielding and shoulder-in, we set to work on improving the canter half-halt.

   
   

BOMBIE had a good win at Vale View on 24th April in the Novice class. Following a super training clinic on 12th May when we worked on simple changes, we had a super 3rd at Vale View on 15th May; if we hadn't jogged in both walks (!) and broke in one canter (!), we are confident we would have won the class!! The Elementary class went very well with us achieving our 10m circles and the simple change.

FOLLOWING two further training sessions with Paul Hayler Bombie had to undergo surgery to remove an aggressive sarcoid. Following 3 weeks of box rest (for which he had to be tied to ensure the stitches remained intact) Bombie has taken just 4 weeks to return to full fitness and is almost working as well as he was above.

BOMBIE has his first competition for 3 months in November. If he lives up to his name, we could be infor some fun!