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How to Use HUSK's IceStride After Exercise
How to Use HUSK's IceStride After Exercise
How to Use IceStride™ After Exercise One of our objectives when developing IceStride was simplicity. Horse care doesn’t always need another complicated routine. So here’s how we’ve designed IceStride to... Read more...
Meet IceStride - A New Approach to Post Exercise Leg Care
Meet IceStride - A New Approach to Post Exercise Leg Care
Meet IceStride™ – A New Approach to Post-Exercise Leg Care It’s finally here. After months of formulation, testing, tweaking and spraying rather a lot of horse legs, we can introduce... Read more...
Why We Created IceStride ............
Why We Created IceStride ............
Discover why HUSK created IceStride™, an innovative horse leg cooling spray combining evaporative cooling with arnica, witch hazel and continuous-spray technology. Read more...
How Evaporative Cooling Works – And Why We’re Interested in It
How Evaporative Cooling Works – And Why We’re Interested in It
Our work developing breathable horse boots has centred around a simple principle: protection should not unnecessarily compromise the horse's ability to manage heat. But what happens when exercise finishes? During... Read more...
Does effective cooling always have to mean extreme cold?
Does effective cooling always have to mean extreme cold?
Ice boots, frozen gels, buckets of cold water and other intensive cooling methods have become familiar sights in competition yards. But at HUSK, we like asking questions. Read more...
Bandages or Boots for Polo? Dr Jorge Mac Donough
Bandages or Boots for Polo? Dr Jorge Mac Donough
“No Bandages for Polo?”   By the late Dr Jorge MacDonough, International Polo Vet, La Irenita What are the Issues with Horse Bandages and Boots for Polo?  Should I use... Read more...
How can I tell my horse has an injured tendon?
How can I tell my horse has an injured tendon?
Studies on tendons have shown that with age and/or exercise tendon degeneration and a decrease in the quality of the fibres are observed. 1  This phenomenon translates into signs of... Read more...
HUSK Boots vs Le Mieux & other leg protection - Vet Assisted
HUSK Boots vs Le Mieux & other leg protection - Vet Assisted
COMPARING BREATHABLE HORSE BOOT TEMPERATURES HUSK Air Irenitas vs. Le Mieux Mesh Snug Boot, Open-Fronted Tendons & Fleece Bandages – Which Horse Leg Protection is the Coolest?! MOST BREATHABLE HORSE... Read more...
Are HUSK Air Boots Better than Bandages? La Dolfina Vet Test.
Are HUSK Air Boots Better than Bandages? La Dolfina Vet Test.
Yes!  HUSK tested ALL of La Dolfina's horses during the Argentine Open alongside their vet to see how hot their legs got under polo wraps vs HUSK Boots.  As most... Read more...