Sheena was one of our earliest customers for Cool, Calm and Collected and she, and many of her pupils and livery yard customers continue to use a variety of our products. Sheena also helped us with the
trials of WINNINGEDGE. On this page you find stories about mobility and behaviour - particularly
rehabilitating an event horse traumatised after a cross country fall. Sheena said: I used Easy Mover for the first time when my dressage
horse, "I'm Clever Cloggs" (aka Mischief) had an injury last Spring when he got cast in his box. He had displaced his pelvis and pulled all the muscles in his back. On bringing him back to work I was finding that he
was very stiff and the dressage work was difficult for him. Following advice from Malcolm, I started him on Easy Mover and there was an immediate change in his general mobility. His paces were noticeably looser and
his whole body became more supple, making his work easier for him. Following such success with Mischief, I decided to try Easy Mover on our 18 year old pony, Cavalier, who broke down badly approx 2 ½ years ago. He had
been becoming very reluctant to move much out of a walk in the paddock. Riding him was out of the question. Within a week, Cav was tearing around the paddock with his mate like a 5 year old! He is now ready to begin
gentle ridden work. I have found Easy Mover to be the best supplement that I have tried for general mobility and for joints, tendons and muscles. Sheena Grierson (Oxon) February 2007.
Rosie - Rehabilitating a nervous eventer Sheena Grierson is a very experienced rider who is a former Young Rider Three Day Event Team Gold Medallist and current
Prix St. George Dressage competitor. She produces all her own horses and helps many other riders achieve their goals. She runs Hall Place Stables livery yard near Wantage in Oxfordshire. morethanlivery.co.uk
Her novice event horse, Legal Light (aka Rosie), performed well in 2003 but chipped a jaw bone during a fall and lost confidence. In 2004 she only
finished one affiliated event and retired or was eliminated in all the others.
Since then her performance has been going downhill. The dressage phases were tense with Rosie often shying at the white boards and
it was becoming difficult to get her to jump - refusing even 2'3" fences at shows and more than one fence at home in her familiar school.
Responding to an advertisement and following a discussion with Malcolm
Green, Sheena purchased Cool, Calm and Collected on 13 July 2005 and used it first on the following weekend at an unaffiliated one-day event. Amazingly Rosie achieved a 'perfect 10' for the medium trot in the Novice
dressage test. More importantly she approached her show jumps and cross-country jumps initially with her customary wariness but, as the event went on, she became more and more confident and her jumping improved. She
finished her first one-day event for over a year!
Sheena was so delighted she rang EquiFeast on Monday morning, reported the results and ordered a 4 kg bag of Cool, Calm and Collected. With just one application,
Cool, Calm and Collected had started the process of rebuilding Rosie's confidence.
Over the next nine weeks Sheena worked to school Rosie through a grid, starting with poles on the ground and then slowly adding
fences, one by one. Progress was being made so Sheena added some fillers - scary stuff that had Rosie nervous again. But the Cool, Calm and Collected helped her over her fear and progress continued.
The first
real test came in late September 2005 when Sheena and Rosie went to the unaffiliated three day event at Milton Keynes. They started with a very good dressage test. Sheena commenting that 'she didn't shy at the white
boards!'
The cross country was inevitably the biggest challenge as Sheena hadn't had the opportunity to confront her horse with a full spectrum of jumps. The water did prove too much with two refusals but, at the
third attempt, they cleared it and from then on Rosie's confidence knew no bounds. Sheena had been worried about a large log on top of a steep mound (picture right). 'The horse has to have confidence in its rider'
Sheena said 'as it cannot see the landing ground which looks like it is 12 feet below the jump.' But Rosie approached with confidence and sailed over this formidable obstacle. Sheena was delighted. 'I have my
event horse back' she said.
Rosie is a classic case of a horse whose performance was deteriorating as her fear compounded. Now she is building on confidence. Continued use combined with schooling will enable
Sheena to continue with Rosie's progress and rehabilitate her eventing career.
Not suprisingly a number of both Sheena's livery and non-livery clients are also using Cool Calm and Collected. |
