TopHat Equine Services in Woodford, Queensland | Pet service
TopHat Equine Services
Locality: Woodford, Queensland
Phone: +61 419 793 612
Address: PO Box 1294 4514 Woodford, QLD, Australia
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24.01.2022 Little treats from a client on the 10th anniversary of doing her horses. #tophatequineservices #bestclients #horseshoeing
21.01.2022 Happiness is..... when you get to ride your Granny’s horse for the first time.
20.01.2022 Blessed were we to drive and explore this remarkable piece of country, the Nullarbor on our way to the 2014 Tom Quilty Endurance Ride. This year the Quilty was to return to Western Australia and we were looking forward to traveling and meeting up with our WA friends we met back in 2014 until Covid -19 happened. Yesterday it was announced that the Tom Quilty will be cancelled for 2020 with Western Australia to now hold the Quilty next year. If you’ve never driven the Nullarbor (there’s great footage of the Bunda Cliffs) turn your sound up, put the video on full screen and enjoy!
18.01.2022 I think a lot of us have been there.....
18.01.2022 **SOLD 3 Summer Combos 2 x 6’3, 1 x 6’ $30 the lot.
16.01.2022 Bridle Bag & Helmet Bag Good Condition, both for $30
16.01.2022 **SOLD Magic Breed Foaling Alarm Excellent, as new condition $380
12.01.2022 GOING IN CIRCLES When horses roamed the plains, they did exactly that: they roamed. They drifted along, grazing and mostly walking in straight lines. When ho...rses worked for a living, they continued to walk those straight lines, pulling a plow from one end of the field to the other, pulling a milk wagon from one end of town to the other, or pushing cattle from one end of Texas to the other. As they transitioned from work animals to recreation vehicles, they generally continued walking, jogging, or cantering in reasonably straight lines, going from one end of a trail to the other. Of course, not all work or recreation involved strict, straight line movement. They were asked to cut cattle, which often required them to work laterally, with sudden starts and stops and jolts and jerks. They were asked to perform military/dressage maneuvers, with significant lateral movement and transitions. They were asked to foxhunt, which required them to work over fences and around obstacles. They were asked to participate in sport, such as polo, which again required stops, starts, bursts of speed and lateral work. And, of course, they were asked to race, which required speed, but generally on straight line tracks or long ovals. As they transitioned into show and competition arenas, however, they shifted away from straight line activity. We changed the game and asked them to become focused athletes and runway models. In doing so, we put them into smaller and smaller spaces and asked them to perform more and more patterned behaviors. Basically, we put them into patterned, repetitive movementsmostly in circles... little, tight circles. And they started to fall apart, experiencing more and more issues with joint problems, soft tissue injuries, and general lameness concerns. We blamed their failures and breakdowns on bad breeding practices and poor genetics; we blamed their failures on bad farriers and inadequate veterinarians; we blamed their breakdowns on poor training and conditioning, poor horse keeping practices, bad nutritional practices, and any number of other things. And, while none of these should be disallowed, the fact remains that we changed the game and put them into those little, tiny circles and repetitive activities. So, let’s look at equine anatomy, and specifically, let’s look at that in relation to athletic maneuvers and activities. First and foremost, the horse is designed to be heavy on the forehand. We fight against that concept, asking them to engage their hindquarters, to collect, and to give us impulsion. And they’re capable of doing so but they’re not designed or programmed to sustain such activity for any length of time. When they do this in natural settings and situations, they’re playing, they’re being startled or frightened, or they’re showing off. None of these are sustained activities. Likewise, when they do engage, they’re generally bolting forward, jumping sideways, or leaping upwards. And they're typically doing that with a burst of speed and energy, not in slow motion. Ultimately, their design is simply not conducive to circular work. Each joint, from the shoulder to the ground is designed for flexion and extensionfor forward motion, not lateral motion. In fact, these joints are designed to minimize and restrict lateral or side-to-side movement.
05.01.2022 Horse Honey $8 bottle Raw, unheated, straight from our own hives. This is the last for the season. Excellent for dressing wounds,syringing & disguising medication or wetting down feed.
02.01.2022 https://www.qld.equestrian.org.au/covid-19
