Equine Miracle

10/07/2025

I can provide valuable insight into why your horse moves, or behaves, the way they do.
Together we can strengthen your horse and improve your results.

By improving forward and flexibility, transitions and trot, canter and (self) carriage. I know how frustrating it can be when your horse hits a plateau in training, or has a little crookedness that is preventing you from higher scores. Quite often this is caused by restriction in the fascia, the muscles and the joints. I can get to the bottom of those issues in a few short weeks, and 3 sessions. PM me for further information.

06/07/2025

Weekend tip for you to try.
Walking uphill in good posture is good for both of us!
Don't hurry, it's not a behavior exercise, it's about going together and building strength and balance.
Once this is working well on the lead, you can start under saddle.
Good idea to have someone video your horse from behind, just so you can check they are using both hind legs evenly. If not, then you need some bodywork before starting.

04/07/2025

This is why so many Aussie soldiers risked everything to shoot their brave companions. What an awful choice they had to make, after a horrifying desert campaign.
Bless Dorothy for her compassion and taking action.

The Horse That Changed the World

In 1930, Dorothy Brooke moved to Cairo and saw something she could never forget: a skeletal, broken-down horse pulling a heavy cart through the streets. His name was Old Bill—a former British war horse left behind after WWI.

Once brave and battle-hardened, Old Bill had been sold into a life of hard labor, like thousands of others. Dorothy was heartbroken. She saw the pain in his eyes and vowed to act.

She wrote a powerful letter to the British press—and the world responded. With their help, Dorothy rescued more than 5,000 war horses, including Old Bill, giving them peace and dignity.

In 1934, she founded the Old War Horse Memorial Hospital in Cairo, which evolved into what we now know as Brooke, Action for Working Horses and Donkeys—and here in the U.S., Brooke USA carries on her mission.

Old Bill’s story sparked a global movement.

👉 Join us this as we honor her legacy—and the horses that made history. Donate today and double your impact by making a gift at www.brookeusa.org/mydonation in her honor.

03/07/2025

Two suspicious marks on Doc's legs, can you pick them out, and what do you think they mean? They are not on his other side.
Answer tomorrow.
Gone this morning because yesterday these marks alerted me to restrictions in Doc's fascia related to him slipping in the muddy conditions. He was very tight on his right side and in his lower back. I used fast fascia Release techniques, that I teach in the Excellence level of my clinics, to relieve the tension.

01/07/2025

Daniella JW learning Remedial Level releases, Daniella did a terrific job assessing and releasing Emres shoulders,back and pelvis.
The EM Remedial Level targets working with the fascia of the skeleton, releasing joint restriction, rebalancing the pelvis and developing skills to assist with rehabilitation.

30/06/2025

Tommy, is a 'get on with the job' kind of guy, and pretty handsome too. During this session I released his pelvis from the tension that was taking it forward, allowing the hips to mobilize correctly and his stride length and freedom behind improved. Then I utilized the stacked Sure Foot pads to release his thoracic area and free up his shoulders to move. At the end Tommy's stride length had increased by 1/3.
He was also calmer and happier.
Can't wait to see what Tommy and his owner achieve in the coming endurance season.
Does your horse scuff their hind toes on the ground, lack the ability to collect underneath, or have lost power to jump etc?
The anterior pelvic tilt is common in horses, and people, and can sneak up on a horse owner causing increasing performance issues. There can be multiple causes and consequences, we need to address them all for the horse to regain their function, and get stronger 💪
I work up and down the Sth Coast from Illawarra to Ulladulla, including KV. Call me for a booking 0431387787

25/06/2025

How you lead your horse can set your horse up for being in balance, or out of balance.
Always remember your horse is a semi trailer and should be set up to go through turns and gates without being pulled out of balance.
Be mindful of how your horse is coming along with you. Are they in a straight line, or leaning/bending towards you?
They should be walking in a straight line with hind feet following behind the front feet.
Wishes and I are walking along the side of an incline, Wishes would also like to go up the hill to eat Doc's hard feed!
Simply leading your horse from each side can help check their balance and encourage even- sidedness.

22/06/2025

Teaching biomechanics and assessment in Townsville is never going to be boring (actually it never is, the horses always have so much to teach us) but Jessie added a surprise touch when she couldn't resist the fresh sand. We thought her walk was a bit odd until we realized she wanted to roll. How our horse moves is always communicating something, we just need to understand what their body is saying (and it's never about being lazy ;)).

21/06/2025

Caption this!