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22/07/2025

From the Elwick Stud field, filly out of

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17/07/2025

16/07/2025

What a weekend it was, what sunsets in beautiful Cornwall!

02/07/2025

Texas Capitol, Austin. to San Antonio.

02/07/2025

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26/06/2025

Good fellas.

23/06/2025

Start the day with a bang!

Unbelievable flexy X '25 from Elwick Stud

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22/06/2025

Sending a good vibe for Sunday from boy out of

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21/06/2025

We have a real summer here so we're cooling down.

21/06/2025

Very interesting discussion in the comments under this post. 👇

🏇British Horseracing Authority Gives Poor & Wrong Advice Yet Again!🏇

Why is it the BHA never seems to get it right when it comes to heat? I guess they have their own experts! Not once has the BHA come to me to ask about cooling advice, despite the fact I've worked on every hot Olympics since Barcelona 1992 and we have not had one single case of heatstroke in a horse since then - despite quite a few human cases!

🏇BHA COMMENT: "The most important thing to realise is that horses are very able to acclimatise to hot weather." Sally Taylor, BHA Head of Equine Regulation, Safety and Welfare.

RESPONSE: Yes, its true, horses are able to acclimatise to hot weather - IF TRAINED IN THE HEAT. Almost all racehorses are trained early in the morning when it’s cool and then raced in the heat of the day so they are not heat acclimatised! And it take around 10-14 days of training for heat acclimatisation to take effect. I've never seen the BHA advise trainers of this!

🏇BHA COMMENT: "Cooling is most effectively achieved by steady application of water over the horse’s neck and trunk” and “focus on the large muscle groups” and "Alternate pouring water onto the horse, especially over shoulders and quarters, and scraping this off after 30 seconds"

COMMENT: All these pieces of advice are wrong. Effective cooling is achieved by application of cool/cold water over ALL the horses body and NOT concentrating on specific areas and WITHOUT SCRAPING.

British Horseracing Authority I've contacted you in the past a number of times and offered to provide the correct information for you but you have ignored me! That offer still stands!

EDIT - I've been challenged over my sources of information so here are the quotes and the source.....

https://www.britishhorseracing.com/regulation/making-horseracing-safer/?fbclid=IwY2xjawLDVJlleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETByc2ZNREVKN1pJeWNxOHdCAR5udP9pnTl0N2qQSwrqNIYXBbsIyjsnkg4AhPg4gprbgEORURBx25tBYEAXxQ_aem_9wqNa2MymEAkhEU3coa2FQ

"Remove the excess water by scraping after each application after allowing the water to absorb heat for around 30 seconds." (Current best practice is not to scrape)

"Keep the horse standing to facilitate cooling." (Current best practice is to keep horse moving if possible to avoid risk of collapse)

"Alternate pouring water onto the horse, especially over shoulders and quarters, and scraping this off after 30 seconds, with periods of walking in the shade. Cool for 30 seconds and then walk for 30 seconds before repeating the process." (Current best practice is to cool all over and NOT focus on specific areas; again NO SCRAPING).

"....ice packs applied to the jugular vein may be beneficial." (This has ZERO benefit and is a relic from cooling in the 1940's)

15/06/2025

June time at Elwick Stud


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