The trouble with lameness is how quietly it starts.
You sense something isn’t quite right, but then he trots up sound. Ask three people, and you’ll get three different answers. Nobody wants to call the vet out based on a feeling alone, so you decide to wait and see — and that delay can come at a cost.
50%of horses whose riders believed they were working comfortably turned out to be lame, across three studies in Sweden, Switzerland and the UK.
44 dayswas the median time horses spent out of work after a lameness episode, in a survey of 438 horse owners.
130 daysfor horses that never returned to their previous level of work.
Sources: Horse & Hound on Sue Dyson’s research · survey of 438 horse owners, University of Glasgow
What the kit does about it
Five sensors record movement data during every session — across each leg and each gait — and the app compares each session with your horse’s normal movement patterns, marking each leg green, yellow or red.
Each leg at walk, trot and gallop. Changes in the data may appear before they become noticeable to the rider.
The first eleven sessions
Here’s what to expect: the system has to learn your horse before it can tell you anything about him, and that takes at least eleven rides. There’s no complicated setup and no calibration ride to do, but the lameness indicators will not appear on day one.
Day oneStraps on, app installed.Four sensors on the legs, one on the saddle pad. The app pairs them over Bluetooth and asks for his name, age and weight.
Sessions 1 to 11It learns what normal is for him.The model is built around your horse’s individual movement patterns, and it cannot judge him against a normal that does not exist yet.
From session 11The indicators become available.Each leg comes back green, yellow or red against his own baseline, and you can compare this week’s results with last week’s.
See a real session
View the same session on a larger screen, in your account on horsecare.si. One training session can be read six different ways — movement analysis, load per leg, the session from the outside, video with telemetry, live heart rate and arena video. See all six.
In the box
Five sensors — HL, FL, FR, HR for the legs and B for the back — and the key tag with the kit’s QR code in the sixth slot.
Four leg straps, the saddle pad clip and the lanyard are stored in the container with the quick guide.Sensor B slides into this clip, and the clip onto the edge of the saddle pad.1
Cradle with five sensorsHL, FL, FR and HR for the legs, B for the back. The sensors charge in the cradle and automatically switch off when stored inside instead of draining the battery
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Key tagCarries the QR code of the whole kit and lives in the sixth slot of the cradle
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Leg strapsSoft straps with hook-and-loop fastening. Each sensor holds onto its strap by its Velcro back
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Saddle pad clipSensor B slides into it, and the clip onto the edge of the saddle pad
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Container with the quick guideThe QR code on the guide downloads the full manual
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HorseCare lanyardIn the container, with the straps and the clip
Which strap size?
S is 250 mm, M is 300 mm, L is 350 mm and XL is 400 mm. You choose the size when you order. On the strap itself the size is printed on the tag next to the buckle, and if they turn out not to fit, other sizes can be ordered separately.
Not in the box
A charger. The cradle takes any USB Type-C charger, 5 V and at least 1 A. A full charge lasts about a week in standby. The rider sensor and the heart rate monitor are separate products.
Putting them on
Fasten the four straps around the horse’s legs, the clip on the saddle pad, and the sensors press onto their Velcro. It takes about four minutes before each ride, and after a week you stop thinking about it. The video walks you through the entire process.
What it is, and what it is not
HorseCare monitors and analyses how your horse moves. It does not diagnose medical conditions or prescribe treatment — that’s your vet’s role. What changes is the information you bring to the appointment.
It measures. It does not diagnose.The app tells you what changed and in which leg. What it means is a conversation with your vet — and you walk into it with measurements instead of impressions.
If he is already lame, it follows the change.Monitoring doesn’t have to stop when lameness appears. The sensors keep recording how his gait changes from session to session, so you can see whether he is coming back, holding level or going the other way.
It does not replace your eye.It catches what the eye misses: small, early changes that build up over time. What you can already see with your own eyes, you’ll still notice first.
Three months to find out whether it tells you anything you didn’t already know.
Eleven sessions to get to know him, and the rest of the trial to watch what it finds. By the end, you will know what it says about your own horse, which is the only test worth passing.
90 days, no cardThe app is free for three months, and you don’t have to pay anything to get started.
Cancel wheneverAfter the trial, the subscription starts at €6 a month. Cancel it, and the sensors stay yours, along with every session they’ve recorded.
Made in SloveniaCE and RoHS marked, with each kit carrying its own serial number and a QR code in the box linking to a 67-page manual.