Eulinga Park Equine

04/11/2024

🌟EOI Thursday Ladies Group with Tegan 12-1.30
🐴Own horse only, let me know if you might be interested

🦄Happy to tailor acaround the group

03/11/2024

Lessons available this week
Fantastic opportunity to come and build confidence in a relaxed environment with very experienced coaches, bring your own horse, or let us supply one for you
Wednesday Cindy: 12pm, 1pm
Friday: Floss 3pm

27/10/2024

SLOOOOOW DOWN!

SLOW your walking down to 1 step per second with and without your horse next to you.
SLOW your hand movements down as you touch or do things.
SLOW your talking down.
SLOW your breathing down.
SLOW your pulls and pushes down on the leadrope.

SLOW to FLOW!

Humans are WAAAAY to fast for horses and this is one of the leading causes of reactivity and opposition reflex in horses.

Speed = stress.

Let me teach you what speed does...

When the brain perceives a threat, it causes the body to release the stress response hormone cortisol. Cortisol levels and speed go hand in hand.
Cortisol provides the body with the fuel it needs to flee a scary situation or fight against it.

The thing with the mind-body relationship is that the brain feels an emotion such as fear, which create a physical response in the body, but the body can also move at a certain speed or in a particular way and create an emotion in the brain. It can be reverse engineered.

This is how special the intimate relationship is between the brain and body.

The other thing to remember is that, collectively as a social animal, when speed is noticed by another mammal (no matter the species), it alerts the unconscious brain to threat.

Speed is an alarm system in a social system (consciously and unconsciously).

If you walked down a road and everyone started running, you'd find it hard not to run even if you didn't know what the cause was. You are noticing that others are running and in a direction, so you mirror them to increase your chances of survival. You don't need the reasoning part of your brain for this. You just activated your primal (survival) part of the brain.

One other thing to remember: HORSES CAN SMELL CORTISOL. So not only does your speed act as a visual alarm system to your horse, it also acts as an olfactory one!

Would you want to interact with someone who caused you to feel constantly on alert?

These little things are the beginnings of what ripples into chronic stress in both humans and horses.
You spend enough time around someone who is fast in their movement, your nervous system will condition itself to being on high alert.
HELLO 👋 CHRONIC STRESS!!!

Slow your movement down = slow your thoughts down.
Slow your movement down = lower your cortisol.
Slow your movement down = feel connected with yourself, the world and others in it.
Slow your movement down = slow your alarm systems down and eventually they'll turn off.

Slow down so much that it is uncomfortable. It won't be uncomfortable for long, I promise 😉

Happy brain training 🧠
Charlotte 🙂

25/10/2024

All abilities riding lessons available next week:

Available for complete beginners who have never ridden through to riders who want to consolidate their skills, catering for ages 4 to 99!

Catering for able bodied and those with disabilities

On one of our trusted school horses or your own.

Lessons available next week

Tuesday 29th 12pm,
Wednesday 30th 1pm
Thursday 31st 3pm
Friday 1st 3pm

18/10/2024

What should we name our new foal? 🤔

We are still up in arms about what we should name our little foal, he’s a little c**t with a sweet personality!

Our most loved name so far is ‘Merlin’ but can anyone top this?

Let us know in the comments! 🦄🦄

17/10/2024

LESSON AVAILABILITY FOR NEXT WEEK! 🦄🦄

Tuesday 22nd Oct
3pm with Floss
3pm with Cindy

Thursday 24th Oct
3pm with Floss

Friday 25th Oct
1pm with Floss
3pm with Floss

Please PM our FB page to book in! 🦄🥕

15/10/2024

“The horse just has a little arthritis in his left hock, it doesn’t seem to bother him too much, he just gets a bit stiff!”

Horses are great compensators, and they will create alternative locomotive patterns to continue movement.

So, say this little bit of osteoarthritis causes a reduced range of motion of the tarsal (hock) joint. In an attempt to maintain stride length and hide this dysfunction to potential predators (because you never know when a lion could be waiting around the corner... or a flapping plastic bag!), the tarsal joint is rotated medially (inwards) during the swing phase of the stride. This results in asymmetrical & medial weight bearing through the digit. This places additional stress through medial hamstring muscles, resulting in muscle tension and trigger points. And this is all something that is potentially going on in the affected hindlimb.

A hip hike/drop can occur at corresponding phases of the stride, placing the sacroiliac joint under stress, resulting in paraspinal and asymmetrical gluteal tone/pain.

Decreased impulsion from the left hindlimb leads to increased weight bearing through the right forelimb diagonal. This can create tension and hypertrophy to the right pectoral muscles and related fascial planes.

The spiral of compensation could continue on further, affecting cervical muscles that become hypertonic as a result of weight shifting, digit shape and size, TMJ pain, head tiling, hyoid dysfunction, asymmetric tail holding...

Often it can be the case where I see a horse that is a chronic stage of compensation and it can be difficult to find the true cause especially when the horse may appear just overall “stiff”.

I liken the rehabilitation of chronic cases to peeling the layers off an onion; one layer at a time and piece by piece to unravel and rewind the compensation spiral. It is important to identify and manage the root cause, rather than just accepting it🐴

14/10/2024

Welcoming the newest member of Eulinga! Our beautiful brood mare Tribute delivered her foal last week, both mare & foal are happy and healthy! 🦄

13/10/2024

Lesson availability for this week! 🐴🐴

Tuesday 15th Oct
12pm with Cindy
3pm with Cindy
3pm with Floss

Wednesday 16th Oct
2pm with Cindy
3pm with Cindy

Thursday 17th Oct
3pm with Floss

Friday 18th Oct
1pm with Floss
3pm with Floss

Lessons can be for beginners through to advanced riders, bring your own horse along or ride one of our beautiful school horses! 🦄🦄

Please PM our page if you’d like to book in! 🥕

13/10/2024

🌟🐴🤸🏽‍♂️TRICK RIDING CLINIC🤸🏽‍♂️🐴🌟

Join Julia as she shares her passion and knowledge of everything trick riding!

This clinic is designed as an introduction to trick riding covering trick riding fundamentals, foundation techniques, safety, horsemanship, performance and showmanship, static barrel technique and manoeuvres on trained trick riding horses in a slow and controlled environment.

DATE: 27th October, 2024 10am-1pm

LOCATION: Eulinga Park Equine, FULHAM

COST: $170 pp

T&C’s: limited spots per clinic, due to safety reasons age & weight limits apply (min age 6 yrs, max weight 75kgs) Minimum numbers required to run.

Please call, message or email to secure your spot or for any further info & questions!

0488970443
[email protected]

10/10/2024

🐴POSITION AVAILABLE – JUNIOR AFTERNOON STABLE HAND 🐴

We have an opening for an afternoon stable hand position. Must be hard working, be able to work independently and in a team. This position is 2-3 afternoons a week & may be covering shifts on weekends. Hours can be flexible to work in with your schedule. Responsible and reliable transport is a must as we are located 10 mins out of Sale. Duties include general horse care, paddock rotation, mucking out, feeding and unrugging/rugging horses.

Although our horses are quiet we are looking for someone with thorough horse experience and is confident around large and small horses.

Must be 16+ years old

Please send resume or any questions to Keira at [email protected] 🥕

04/09/2024

Senny & Oakie, two of our beautiful school horses, taking advantage of the beautiful spring weather ☀️ 👌🏼🐴

02/09/2024

The provisional riding times have been released for Stella’s competition tomorrow. Stella is riding 6th in the grade 1’s. Her time is 2.30 Paris time. (10.30pm Melbourne time).
About to go for final training session on the main arena now.

01/09/2024

PARIS 2024 | We are getting excited now for the start of the Para-Equestrian competition at the Paralympic Games with the first of our athletes taking to the stunning arena at Versailles on Tuesday 3 September for the Individual Event 💚💛

👉The best way to follow along is to download the Paris 2024 Paralympics App at: https://bit.ly/3A5ho10

📺 You can watch all the action on Nine Now at:
https://www.9now.com.au/para-equestrian-paralympic-games-paris-2024 or on Stan Sport live and on demand at https://www.stan.com.au/paralympics2024.

The graphic shows the local start-times as well as in AEST for all the Para-Equestrian Events and we will be posting individual start times prior to each event. We have athletes in the following Para Equestrian grades as follows:

GRADE I: Stella Barton and 'Lord Larmarque', owned by Jade Moody – groom Ashleigh Campton

GRADE II: Bridget Murphy and 'Penmain Promise', owned by Rosanne Mason and Bridget Murphy – groom Kate Arton

GRADE IV: Dianne Barnes and 'Sorena', owned by Sharyn McCombe – groom Rebecca Haythorpe

GRADE V: Lisa Martin and 'Vilaggio', owned by Lisa Martin – groom Maddison McAndrew

Go Team 🇦🇺



Equestrian Victoria Equestrian Queensland Equestrian NSW Equestrian South Australia Inc Equestrian Western Australia Equestrian Northern Territory Equestrian Tasmania

27/08/2024

𝗪𝗘𝗟𝗙𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗪𝗘𝗗𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗗𝗔𝗬: 𝗥𝗲𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁 🐴 Understanding rein contact is crucial for ensuring our horses' well-being. Rein contact refers to the pressure applied to the reins by the rider to maintain steady communication with the horse. It is essential for higher-level dressage and jumping, offering the rider a fine degree of control and serving as one of the first steps toward collection.

Contact should be light and elastic, moving with the horse and applying just enough pressure to prevent the reins from sagging.

At Pony Club, we emphasise pressure-release training, teaching our members why heavy contact or unrelenting pressure is detrimental to both the horse's welfare and training.

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗨𝗻𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲
Heavy rein contact can be a sign that the horse is in a state of flight response, indicating that if you were to release the reins, the horse might try to run away. Constant heavy contact will make the horse less responsive to the stopping aids, and is bad for his welfare. Consequences include:

▪️ 𝗣𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗮𝗶𝗻: Prolonged pressure on the sensitive areas of the horse’s mouth can lead to bruising, sores, and chronic pain. Over time, this can cause the horse to become resistant or fearful of the bit, creating a negative association with being ridden.

▪️ 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲𝘀: Unrelenting pressure can lead to a range of behavioural problems, including head tossing, bit evasion, and bucking. These are often signs that the horse is trying to escape the discomfort and communicate its distress.

▪️ 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀: If the horse cannot find relief from the pressure, it may eventually give up trying to respond to the reins altogether, entering a state of learned helplessness. This condition results in a horse that appears unresponsive, but in reality, it has simply become disengaged due to consistent discomfort.

▪️ 𝗡𝗲𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁: Heavy rein contact restricts the natural movement of the horse’s head and neck, which are crucial for balance. This can lead to stiff, unnatural gaits, increased tension throughout the horse's body, and even long-term musculoskeletal issues.

Ultimately, these issues compromise the welfare of the horse, highlighting the importance of maintaining light, clear, and consistent rein aids to promote a positive, stress-free riding experience. By understanding the principles of rein contact and the consequences of unrelenting pressure, we can ensure our horses remain happy, healthy, and responsive partners.

20/08/2024

14/08/2024

The weathers too good not to give the horses a bath! 🛀
We don’t want to jinx it, but is spring here early? 🤞🤞

12/08/2024

This is why your turn does not come from pulling on the rein. Note the riders hand and leg position and hip angle in each sketch. Note the development of the horses muscles in each sketch. Note the shape of the horse in each sketch. A truly supple, truly bent horse is working through their entire body. It is OUR job as the rider to guide the horse to become soft, supple, and through in all movements.

Rider one is pulling the nose around, and trying to push the haunches in, with a following outside rein offering the horse no balance, and a hardly supportive inside leg to wrap around. This has created a rigid, stiff horse that will surely be back sore, weak in the hind end, with front end bulk in all the wrong places. This horse has every opportunity, and will likely be so uncomfortable that it will try every time, to run out of his right shoulder.

Rider two is pushing the horse from his inside leg to his outside rein. The outside rein is providing a balance point for the horse, allowing him to be both comfortable and willing to carry himself. Because the riders rein is supportive and blocking the shoulder, the horse can not blow out the shoulder, and can only become truly bent along the entire length of the spine.

In order to build the athlete you want, and to allow your horse the opportunity to have a long, successful, and most importantly SOUND career, it is important to understand how we ride, even in seemingly simple tasks such as the walk or trotting circles, is effecting each muscle in your horses body. Not all muscle is good muscle!

- Ali Hamann / South Coast Sport Horses

04/08/2024

Looks like a wonderful little horse!

01/08/2024

Happy birthday to all our beautiful ponies & horses! ❤️ 🥕

24/07/2024

Go Stella Barton Para-Equestrian and Team Aus!!

10/07/2024

07/07/2024

LAST MINUTE SCHOOL HOLIDAY LESSONS! 🐴

Tomorrow (8th July)
4pm with Floss

Wednesday 10th July
12pm with Floss

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