One of the biggest challenges facing horse trainers today is how to insure that the horse in training has all the necessary and essential nutrients available for its foundation and recovery. Horses have survived droughts, famine, drastic global conditions, disease, malnutrition, and extinction because of the sustained energy of water, air, light, and plants. Plants and plant oils contain essential nutrients equines must have to make healthy cells, the basic building blocks for survival and support.

Horses, as herbivores, are guided by and vibrate to the natural intelligence of plant life.

The wisdom of selection for survival is an ever-present and potent factor in the choice a horse makes in its diet. Those choices determine its rate of growth, repair, performance, attitude, lifespan, and most importantly how its immune system functions.

When horses are fed U.S.P. vitamins (lab produced), these are in an isolated form. The isolated chemical vitamins have little resemblance to the perfect nutrients that nature provides in herbs. This makes them difficult for the horses system to recognize, absorb, and digest. Chemical vitamins may address a variety of symptoms but never reach the underlying cause of disease.

Feed companies include cheap USP vitamins and processed oils that quickly go rancid when exposed to heat, light, or oxygen.

These same oils have been bleached and de-odorized to promote shelf life rather than health. Chemical sprays and soil depletion play a large role in the variety of the nutritional content of Alfalfa and hay crops.

Over 80% of the corn fed to horses is genetically engineered, a process that forever changes the "nature made" nutrients in corn. These chemically altered feeds may cause allergies, toxicity, and a depleted system over time. Chemical vitamins mask deficiencies and never address the underlying need for whole foods.

Competitive horses need complete nutrition. Supplementing with untreated Essential Fatty Acids is the key to unlocking the available potential of the equine athlete. We need to take a closer look at what is needed for the basic building blocks of the equine’s system. Horses are primarily Omega 3 (Essential Fatty Acid) dependent. Corn oil, which has been routinely fed to horses or added to commercial feeds has no  Omega 3.

When working with racehorses we find that Equus Oil supplies superior energy and stamina.

This year’s Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Funny Cide used the oils with phenomenal success. His coat, training, attitude, and level of performance were enhanced by the addition of essential fatty acids to his program. We have many barrel horses, jumpers, eventing horses, polo ponies, show, and pleasure horses enjoying the life-giving properties of this special oil.

Essential Fatty Acids ("EFA's") and Equine Care

EFA’s: Regulate glands and organs Provide energy fuels Improve digestion Keep bones strong Decrease infection Produce a beautiful healthy  coat Regulates gene expression Necessary for hormone production

• EFA’s build muscle and prevent muscular breakdown while speeding recovery from fatigue. They are necessary for all cell growth and division.
  
• EFA’s strengthen the immune system by making hormone-like eicosanoids that regulate immune and inflammatory response.
  
• EFA’s (especially Omega3 ) lower abnormally high levels of blood pressure. By making the platelets less sticky, EFA’s lower the tendency for clot formation and inflammation. (Prevents bleeding)
  
• EFA’s improve brain function, mood, intelligence, behavior, and vision.
  
• EFA’s are important components of the entire nervous system. They are necessary for the conversion of uninterrupted energy.

Equus Oil contains:

48% Omega 3 from  flax seed oil, 24% Omega 6 from Sunflower and Sesame seed oils, healthful minor ingredients rice germ and oat germ oils, Evening primrose oil, beneficial medium chain triglycerides from coconut fat, Lecithin, Vitamin E, and Rosemary oil extract, all certified Organic

Formulator Udo Erasmus has been designing custom oil blends with health in mind for over 15 years. Dr. Erasmus has written two books including the definitive work on fats and oils: Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill, for which he earned a PHD. Udo has an extensive supplement line for humans including the Perfected Health Plan products. All of the formulas manufactured by Flora are produced with the finest hand picked ingredients, organic and wild-crafted herbs, many of which are grown on their pristine farm in the Andes Mountains in Chile.

Cathy Mcglory began her thoroughbred career with Calumet Farms in 1969, at Hialeah Racetrack. She spent 12 years working with racehorses from groom to jockey. She has studied with the Bastyr University in Seattle,Washington and is a graduate of the Herbal Healing acedemy in Arkansas.  She has been active in the field of Natural medicine for 13 years and manages her own company "HorsePower Herbs " in Wellington Florida.  Her most famous client to date is Funnycide, the 2003 Kentucky Derby winner. Cathy specializes in performance horse nutrition.