Past News Items and Articles
Epsom Derby to use new cooling rug - Article: Business Matters - Racing Post.
Howard Wright’s pens an article on the Rapid Cooler Rug at the 2007 vodafone Epsom Derby includes extracts of an interview with our very own Kay Russell. Read Howard’s article or view Howard’s article in context (PDF)
NEW!!! Rapid Cooler Rug
The Rapid Cooler Rug continues the push by Equiplus to bring horse care into the 21st Century. The Rapid Cooler Rug is the ultimate active cooling rug bringing all over horse body temperature down, quickly and safely. Find out more about the Rapid Cooler Rug.
NEW!!! Cool Air Travel Boots
Hitting the road very soon with be the new Cool Air Travel Boots. Designed to be used with or without the Equi-N-icE Cooling bandage these boots will keep horse’s legs cool and protected on their
Revolutionising Cold Compression Treatment
Howard Wright, Associate Editor of the Racing Post, examines the Equi-N-IcE technology. You can read the article in pdf: An equine injury treatment with a difference.
Equi-N-icE - A therapeutic aid to the stars of film
Equi-N-icE is delighted to sponsor Daniel Naprous and his amazing horse Dante, star of the Lloyds bank adverts.
It's always a good day at the office for Howard Wright
Epsom to use unique new cooling rug
EPSOM is taking horse welfare a stage further at the Derby meeting, where trainers of the placed horses will be offered a new rug that has been scientifically proved to cool a horse’s body temperature by seven degrees in ten minutes.
Branded the Equi-N-icE Rapid Cooler Rug and developed by Dorset-based Equiplus Intercontinental, the all-over covering provides a two-hour cooling effect.
Epsom MD Stephen Wallis says: "Horse welfare is paramount, and we want to be at the forefront with new ideas. The cooling rug seems an ideal product."
The rug is the latest product developed from the re-useable cooling bandage launched by Equiplus director Kay Russell in 2004.
She says: "The Equi-N-icE rug is a unique alternative to the conventional 'sweat rug’, which relies on air convection alone for its cooling effect. "Combined with our liquid coolant, it works by dropping the horse's core body temperature as quickly and safely as possible.
"Optimum temperature reduction after work and the dissipation of heat from tendons and joints have long been a challenge for trainers. But our special fabric structure moves moisture away from the skin surface, and draws heat away from the muscles by rapid evaporation. "The cooling rug is quick and efficient to apply, and ideal for post-race use, after exercise, travelling, and in hot conditions."