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EQUIPOD

Natural Hoof Care Specialists

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NEWSLETTER December 2010

Date: 20/12/2010

Hi everyone,

EQUIPOD would like to wish you all a very Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year!!!

I hope all Australians will enjoy a lovely summer break finding some time to go to the beach (with the horses of course!). And to all our European subscribers: hope you will have a white Xmas and lots of hot mulled wine.

There seems to be no break for us with a strangely high rate of laminitis cases, which is very unusual at this time of the year. It must be the new season hay that everyone is starting to feed now. If in doubt soak your hay before feeding.

The endurance season has come to an end for this calendar year finishing with the AGM on 11^th December. EQUIPOD was very honoured about being picked as a sponsor for one of the ‘end of year’ Best Conditioned rugs. That rug went to Amanda Arkell’s horse AJ. Congratulations !!!

Sarah Connor’s success continued by winning the endurance State Championships held in Quindanning at the beginning of October in the lightweight division using glue-on shells. Congratulations to Sarah!! She also won her team the ‘Corporate Section Title’ at the Blackwood Marathon, a combined race of swimming, cycling, canoeing, running and horse riding.

Some interesting statistics from the State Champs: only 6 out of 15 riders completed the extremely rocky and hilly course and only one out of those 6 horses was in metal shoes. The others were in boots, shells or barefoot.

EQUIPOD had run another trimming workshop for endurance riders on the 4^th December at the Wallangara Pony Club Grounds, and there will be another workshop some time early next year.

The photo of the month comes from Margaret in Geraldton:

“Breakfast in bed”

These are photos of ‘A Splash of Bey’ from Tazi Arabian Stud getting his little feet trimmed while he was half asleep and lying down. What a gorgeous foal!! He is setting the new standard for my future expectations of a well behaved horse. He wasn’t sedated and he wasn’t being held down – he just felt like it!!