Stride Ahead Equine

15/03/2025

14/03/2025

We are open for weighing at the Darling Downs Heavy Horse Festival. Come down, get your horse weighed and have a chat about their nutritional needs.

09/03/2025

🚨 Book Your Weighing Spot at the Darling Downs Heavy Horse Festival 🚨

We’re excited to announce that we’ll be weighing horses at the Darling Downs Heavy Horse Festival on March 15-16! 🐴✨ Keeping track of your horse’s weight is crucial for proper feeding, worming, and overall health—so don’t miss this opportunity!

📅 Secure your spot now: https://events.manehub.com/2025/stride-ahead-at-darling-downs-heavy-horse-festival

📍 Where? Darling Downs Heavy Horse Festival
📆 When? March 15-16, 2025

💬 Got questions? Send us a message or call 0438 049 967.

📊 Looking for nutrition advice? We also offer expert guidance on feeding and diet management to help your horse maintain optimal condition and performance. Ask us about our nutrition services during your weighing appointment.

🛍️ Stock up on essential minerals! We’ll also have a variety of mineral mixes available for purchase to help keep your horses in peak condition.

Stride Ahead Equine — helping your horses stay happy, healthy, and performing at their best! 💙

06/03/2025

🐴 We’re Excited to Be Weighing Horses at the Darling Downs Heavy Horse Festival! 🐴
Stride Ahead Equine will be offering horse weighing services at the Darling Downs Heavy Horse Festival on March 15-16!
This is a great opportunity to get an accurate weight for your horse, whether for feeding, health management, or worming. We can’t wait to see all the incredible heavy horses and catch up with everyone at this fantastic event!
📍 Darling Downs Heavy Horse Festival
📅 March 15-16
Be sure to stop by and get your horse weighed! 🐎

28/02/2025

🏇 Build Strength, Stamina & Success with Our Endurance Training Programs! 🏆
At Stride Ahead Equine, we specialize in conditioning and training horses for endurance riding, ensuring they are fit, sound, and prepared to go the distance! Whether you’re just starting out or aiming for top-level competition, we provide expert guidance tailored to your horse’s needs.
🔥 Our Endurance Training Services Include:
✔️ Progressive fitness plans to build stamina & strength
✔️ Customized nutrition programs to fuel peak performance
✔️ On-site horse weighing for accurate conditioning management
✔️ Heart rate & recovery monitoring for optimal training results
✔️ Hydration & electrolyte strategies for endurance success
We take a holistic approach to endurance training—focusing on fitness, nutrition, and recovery to keep your horse performing at their best while minimizing the risk of fatigue or injury.
📞 Ready to take your endurance journey to the next level? Call 0438 049 967 or PM us today!
🐎 Stride Ahead Equine – Conditioning Champions, One Ride at a Time!

27/02/2025

We’re excited to announce that Stride Ahead Equine will be bringing our equine weigh scales to the Darling Downs Heavy Horse Festival on March 15 & 16! 🎉
📍 Where? Darling Downs Heavy Horse Festival Allora QLD
📅 When? March 15 & 16, 2025
⚖ What? On-site horse weighing – $20 per horse
Knowing your horse’s accurate weight is essential for:
✅ Correct feeding & nutrition
✅ Effective worming & medication dosages
✅ Monitoring health & fitness
🔗 Pre-booking link will be available soon! Stay tuned to secure your spot.
We can’t wait to see all the incredible heavy horses and catch up with everyone. 🐎💙
📞 Inquiries: 0438 049 967

Send a message to learn more

27/02/2025

🌿 Optimize Your Horse’s Health with Expert Nutrition Guidance! 🐴✨
At Stride Ahead Equine, we understand that every horse is unique—and so are their nutritional needs. Whether your horse is a high-performance athlete, a leisure companion, or a golden oldie, the right diet is key to their health, performance, and longevity.
🥕 Our Nutrition Services Include:
✔️ On-site horse weighing for accurate diet planning
✔️ Customized diet plans tailored to your horse’s needs
✔️ Feed and supplement analysis for optimal balance
✔️ Weight management strategies
✔️ Gut health and digestive support
✔️ Solutions for metabolic conditions, laminitis, ulcers & more
With expert advice and practical solutions, Stride Ahead Equine takes the guesswork out of feeding—so you can be confident your horse is getting exactly what they need!
📞 Book a consultation today. Call us at 0438 049 967 or PM us to learn more.
🐎 Stride Ahead Equine – Helping Your Horse Thrive!

28/01/2025

Give Your Horse the Nutrition & Fitness It Deserves
Tailored Solutions for Optimal Health
Your horse is one of a kind—shouldn’t their care plan be, too? At Stride Ahead Equine, we provide independent equine nutrition services and customized fitness training plans designed to bring out the best in your horse.
🐴 Why Choose Us?
• Unbiased Expertise: We're not tied to any feed brands, ensuring your horse gets exactly what they need, not what someone wants to sell.
• Tailored Nutrition Plans: From performance athletes to retired companions, we design diets to meet every horse's unique needs, addressing health concerns, weight management, and more.
• Individual Fitness Plans: We provide personalized general fitness training programs to keep your horse in peak condition, whether they’re recovering from downtime or building performance.
• Precise Weighing: We offer on-site weighing services for accurate diet and fitness calculations—no more guesswork about your horse's weight.
• Cost-Effective Solutions: Save money by optimizing your feed and fitness plan—no unnecessary extras, just results-driven recommendations.
• Education & Support: We empower owners with knowledge, so you understand every part of your horse’s care plan and its impact on their health and performance.
Whether you’re looking to boost performance, improve fitness, or support recovery, we’re here to help.
📞 Call us at 0438049967 or PM to schedule your personalised consultation today.
Because every horse deserves the perfect balance—inside and out. 🐎

14/01/2025

Stride Ahead Equine has bookings available over the next 2 weeks for nutrition appointments, mobile weighing, general horse fitness plans and specific endurance training plans. Via on farm or remote consultations.

Get in touch to ensure your horse is receiving optimal nutrition and that your 2025 endurance season has a great preparation!

Photo credit: Sarah Sullivan

16/12/2024

The off season is the perfect time to review your horses diet and optimise their nutrition for the upcoming season. Stride Ahead Equine can help with this.
By making changes to the feed program during the off-season you allow your horses digestive system to adapt to new feed regime while at rest.

Offering two types of appointments, in person farm visits which include weighing of your horse and current feed or a remote consultation conducted via phone or video call.

Farm visits are available in South East Qld and the Darling Downs QLD, other locations upon negotiation.

All appointments include ongoing support.

Stride Ahead Equine can also provide endurance training and general fitness programs to ensure your horse can put its best foot forward for the 2025 season.
Please PM or call Angela on 0438 049 067 to discuss your requirements.

26/11/2024

Stride Ahead Equine has 2 appointments available on the afternoon of Thursday the 28th of November in the Gatton/Toowoomba area.
Nutrition consultations include weighing your horse to determine its appropriate nutritional intake, weighing of your current feeding program and development of a balanced feeding program.
Weighing only appointments available as well to determine exactly how heavy your horse is for feeding, medications and/or transport.
Please PM or contact Angela on 0438049967

01/10/2024

Spring has sprung and with the recent rain we are seeing large amounts of beautiful fresh green grass. Unfortunately, although tasty, this green grass is full of sugars and can often trigger an acute laminitic event or cause a rapid increase in weight. Stride Ahead Equine can help manage your horse through this time of the year. Our mobile horse scales allow you to closely monitor your horses weight, nutrition plans ensure your horse is receiving quality nutrition and fitness plans to get you and your horse moving again after winter.
We can also assist with the hoof care of your laminitic horses and ponies through our partner business, Stride Ahead Hoof Care and Training.
PM Angela or give her a call on 0438049967 to see how we can help you.

15/09/2024

We all know that the secret to good health and a shiny coat is a balanced diet. With so much differing advice available, sometimes it can be headache inducing to figure out the perfect diets for our four-legged friends, especially when they have extra challenges like EMS, laminitis, brittle hooves, big head or PSSM. Stride Ahead Equine can take the guess work out of balancing your horse’s diet. From paddock ponies to high level performance horses a balanced diet will help your horse look and perform at its best. Onsite appointments at your property ensure accuracy with weight and diet recommendations.
Onsite appointments include weighing of the horse, visual assessment, weighing of current diet, visual pasture assessment, detailed report on current diet and diet recommendations, assistance with implementing the diet and an 8-week check in. Weighing only appointments are available for owners who would like an accurate measurement of their horse’s current weight.

10/08/2024

***New Product Alert***

Stride Ahead Equine is working on a new product and needs your help. We are working on producing a custom mineral mix which aligns perfectly to your horse's forage.
After trialling the product extensively with our own horses', we are ready to start offering vitamin and mineral supplements custom made to your forage.

We are offering 10 horse owners the opportunity to trial the product in return for pictures and testimonials.

We are particularly interested in working with horses who display these conditions:
- Big Head
- Laminitis
- Hoof health issues, including poor hoof growth
- Poor coat health
- Skin conditions

* Please note we are not offering performance horse vitamin and mineral custom supplements at this stage (but we are working on it!). At this stage the custom mineral supplement will only include major and trace minerals, perfect for balancing a horse's forage.

Offer:
50% nutrition consultation ($100)
2 months of custom mineral supplement at cost price, cost will vary depending on inclusions.
Forage testing at cost price from Feed Central ($150) if forage testing not recently performed.

In return:
Feed your horse the constructed diet + the custom made mineral mix for two months.
Before and after pictures
Short written testimonial

Any past clients who may be interested in taking up this opportunity please get in contact.

Send a message to learn more

09/08/2024

Fitness Programs:
Fitness programs are essential for horse health and go hand in hand with quality nutrition programs.
With over 50 years of experience in endurance horse riding and training David and Angela are able to provide comprehensive fitness training programs for any level of conditioning.

Taking into consideration:
- Your horse's current fitness level
- Your horse's previous experience
- Your experience
- Availability of training areas
- Your goals

We can formulate general fitness programs for the health of your horse, fitness programs tailored to rehabilitation or endurance training plans.

Prices vary depending on length of the program.

31/07/2024

Remote Consultations:
Remote consultations are the perfect option for those who live outside the areas we regularly service or those who would like a phone consultation rather than an onsite visit.
Remote consultations involve:
- Pre-completion of a form which includes information on your horse's weight, a current photo or short video of the horse and current feed program.
- Phone or video call
- A discussion on your goals and feeding requirements.
Once I have all your information, I will compile a report which outlines:
- The horse's current diet
- The suggested diet to ensure your horse's nutritional needs are being met.
- A cost breakdown of both diets
- Management considerations that are important when implementing the new diet.
I am available to answer any questions you have regarding the horses suggested diet while you are implementing it.
A follow up phone call will then be done when your horse has been on the suggested diet for 8 weeks.

Costs:
First horse: $100
Additional horses: $60 each

31/07/2024

Stride Ahead Equine’s comprehensive diet consultations include an evaluation of your horse’s current diet. The graphs show some of the information you will receive from your diet consultation. The current diet is a popular feed, fed at rates recommended by the manufacturer. The suggested diet is a diet recommended by Stride Ahead Equine to feed the same horse. The red line in both graphs indicates the minimum target levels for this horse.
As an independent equine nutritionist Stride Ahead Equine can review your diet without bias, ensuring that your horse receives the nutrition it needs to shine, while being friendly on your pocket. The current diet shows a diet significantly low in copper, iodine, selenium and zinc. The suggested diet shows these levels rectified to above required levels, at a cost significantly below the current diet. As well as the energy, protein, major minerals and trace minerals shown the horses diet is looked at for critical vitamins and recommendations made on these, if addition is required for your horse’s situation.