He isn’t lame. He just isn’t quite right.

That feeling usually has a cause, and the cause can be measured. Movement analysis compares each leg with your horse’s own normal and gives you the difference as a number.

Watch the film

45 seconds: what the feeling looks like when it is measured.

If any of this sounds familiar

  • You feel something underneath you, and then he trots up sound.
  • You ask three people and you get three answers.
  • You don’t want to call the vet out over a feeling.

You are not imagining it, and you are not alone in failing to see it. This is the part HorseCare measures for you.

3D mapping of rider movement and horse back in the HorseCare app
Your body and his back, measured through the same stride.
50%

of horses whose riders believed they were working comfortably were found to be lame, across three studies in Sweden, Switzerland and the UK.Horse & Hound, on Sue Dyson’s research

Am I imagining it?

Your horse is compared with himself, not with an average horse. A change becomes a figure you can point at.

Which leg is he sparing?

Every leg gets its own deviation percentage for each gait, so the uneven side shows up on its own.

Is it him, or is it me?

Your vertical movement is measured against his back, in centimetres and milliseconds. If the imbalance follows you, you will see that too.

Symmetry assessment screen: deviation for each leg

Asymmetry

Front left 19.09 against front right 18.93, hind left already in the yellow band.

Graph of rhythm deviation at walk, trot and gallop

Rhythm

How steadily he holds the beat at walk, trot and gallop, and the moment it goes.

Reviewing a workout with a trainer on a laptop

Then go through it with your trainer.

Send the session before the lesson. Your trainer looks at the same stride you did, so you start from what happened instead of from how it felt.

What you need

Required
HorseCare Sensor Kit, €400Five sensors, charging stand, straps and back pocket
Optional
Rider Sensor set, €94Needed for the rider and horse comparison
App
iOS and AndroidFree for 90 days, then from €6 a month

The rest of the system

Sporting ConditionDynamics of TrainingMultivideo with TelemetryLive-Mode TelemetryArena Tracking