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We currently work with Rowan who is an

excellent therapy horse in terms of his

movement, schooling and character. However,

he is rather wide which makes it impossible for

people with severely restricted movement in

their hip joints to sit on him. Therefore, we are

looking to work with a second horse to be able

to accommodate clients with a wider range of

physical needs.

In April we started working with Jet, our

younger horse. Jet, too, is excellently suited for

hippotherapy in terms of his movement and

character.  The movement he offers our clients

is different from Rowan’s, which is excellent, as

different people need different movement input

- in fact, their movement requirements are likely

to change as their movement ability progresses

within a course of treatment.

However, Jet is still only five and more easily

distracted than Rowan. This means that we

cannot use him for as many clients.

If anything was to happen to Rowan or Jet, we

would not be very limited in our ablility to

provide hippotherapy, as horses need to be not

only suited in character and their movement,

but also specially trained for this kind of

In fact, Rowan was unable to work at the

moment, due to a serious hoof condition called

laminitis. He was off for more than four months,

as a result of this. As Jet was not trained for

hippotherapy then, this meant that we were

unable provide hippotherapy for this period of

Last year we were offered the donation of two

horses that would have been highly suitable for

hippotherapy horse in terms of their age, character, movement, and size. However, we were

If you feel you can make a contribution towards the keep of a suitable horse, so we can

safeguard our hippotherapy provision and provide a service for patients which our current

horses cannot cater for, please contact us.