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Yogi Breisner - taking racehorses back to school

Emma Berry speaks to Yogi Breisner about his work within the racing world and why he has helped many racehorses get that one step ahead in the jumping game.

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THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED IN EUROPEAN TRAINER - ISSUE 46

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Hydrotherapy for horses - the many healing qualities of water

Fast forward to the late 1960s, when the immortal Ginger McCain surveyed the scene as Red Rum walked lame out of his stable in Stockport shortlyafter he arrived at his new home. As a child, McCain was reported to have noticed the beneficial effects …

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THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED IN - EUROPEAN TRAINER - ISSUE 44

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Katsumi Yoshida invites us around Northern Farm

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THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED IN - EUROPEAN TRAINER - ISSUE 43

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Grand Designs - Creating the perfect training centre

Opting to invest in a property rather than renting a yard, Jennifer Bidgood decided to have her modern training centre designed and built from scratch at Chateau Gassard, near Saint Samson in Normandy.

MY PARTNER, John Spouse, and I moved to Château Gassard near Saint Samson in 2012. Why? I had startedtraining in Spain, firstly in Mijas and then Madrid, before moving to Haras de Bouquetot in Normandy in 2009. Prior to this I had worked with show …

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THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED IN - EUROPEAN TRAINER - ISSUE 42

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The Heath - the headquarters of horseracing

Newmarket Heath has been fiercely protected by the Jockey Club as training grounds for some of the world's best racehorses for more than 250 years.

IN THESE days of non-stop housing development, it says much for the power and resolution of Jockey Club Estates that 2,500 acres of prime East Anglian heath land stand largely untouched surrounding the town thathas earned its label as the historic h…

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THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED IN - EUROPEAN TRAINER - ISSUE 42

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Changing methods for preparing NH store horses

THE French system of early racing experience is certainly popular with trainers, who are trying to satisfy the demands of impatient owners who want to go straight from the sales to theracecourse. It’s also a system that benefits its young NH horses,…

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THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED IN - EUROPEAN TRAINER - ISSUE 41

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Breaking the silence: The impact of sound and hearing

CONSIDERING how important a horse’s sense of hearing is and how commonly earplugs are used in various athletic events, there is remarkably little research in this field.Nonetheless, this article provides the most up- to-date information on the form …

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THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED IN - EUROPEAN TRAINER - ISSUE 41

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Flying high - training horses at altitude

THE consistency of Straight Set, one of Spies’ top two-year-olds, did his theory no harm. She raided the province of Kwazulu-Natal four times over a period of under three months.Two runs at Scottsville in Pietermaritzburg, at an altitude of about 65…

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THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED IN - EUROPEAN TRAINER - ISSUE 40

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Life after racing - going for gold in other equine disciplines

IT’S no surprise, given the qualities needed for racing, that failed racehorses can excel in other disciplines, and event riders have been seeking them out long before re-homing charities brought them to our attention.In the past, the bigger, more m…

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THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED IN - EUROPEAN TRAINER - ISSUE 38

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To Boot or Not to Boot, is that the Question?

AN aversion to using boots in the past few decades probably stems from some research on the temperature of tendons carried out at Bristol University in the early 1990s which showed high temperatures inside tendons of galloping horses.This was follow…

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Keeping it in the family - can a horse's family traits be used to a trainer's advantage?

It’s the same story at every dinner party, writes Frances J. Karon. A stranger will invariably ask, “What do you do?”, as if the response will somehow explain the very essence of one’s being. Similarly, the first question we have for the owner or trainer who tells us he has a nice yearling on the farm is, “What’s it by?”

The question is multifunctional. First, it enables us to gauge how seriously we can take this person. We will immediately discount the proud owner's opinion if the horse is by a bad stallion. Second, we make a generalisation based on the reply. If, for instance, the yearling's sire is Theatrical, we tell ourselves that it will obviously be a slow maturing turf horse who will want a route of ground.

Frances J Karon (European Trainer - issue 29 - Spring 2010)