Mike Tweedie the Horse Vet

Author: Mike Tweedie

The number one podcast for management of your horse. I discuss different conditions and how to manage the condition to get your horse back to peak health and fitness. Also some thoughts on how our sports can manage issues as they arrive. Questioning change is what I think about and just because we have always done it that way doesn't make it the right way. Training and management of the sporthorse has to change as we change the demands placed on them.
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What is the effect of surface on work for your horse?
Sunday, 14 October, 2018

I had a question regarding work surface and is a deep surface bad for your horse? Well I think it can be fine for a racehorse but we have to consider the following equation to understand surface: Training effect = Speed x Distance work x Surface effect. These three things all need to be considered when we are trying horses. While in racehorses we can often alter amount of time worked and speed, for a sport horse this is more difficult and you as a rider to make some considerations regarding this. Is it time to consider working horses on firmer surfaces?