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🍇 Grape, anyone? 😂🍇
All tastes catered for here at Marston Stud! From hay to grapes… Because why settle for ordinary when you can snack like royalty? 👑😂
✨ August, behind the scenes… 🐴💦
A busy month - keeping everyone cool, comfortable and happy 😃 🏇🐎❤️
Hydro-training: because champions aren’t just made on the turf. 🌊🐎
From low-impact fitness , conditioning & pre-training to active recovery and specialised rehabilitation, helping keep our thoroughbred stars feeling their absolute best 👑🌊🐎
Marston Stud Equine Hydrotherapy & Rehabilitation, specialising in the race & performance horse.
💙Therapist led Hydrotherapy
🌊Fmbs Water treadmill & spa
❄️ECB Cold Saltwater Spa
📍 Marston St Lawrence, Banbury
📞 07747234845
✉️ [email protected]
25/08/2026
Red Rum — the horse who brought hydrotherapy to the forefront of racehorse care 🌊💦🐎
Red Rum—one of the best-known examples of water-based training and rehabilitation in racing history.
Most will know his story. Red Rum was suffering from debilitating pedal osteitis, threatening his racing career. Trainer Ginger McCain turned to Southports beach and sea, exercising him on sand and in the sea to maintain fitness while reducing the concussion and loading associated with conventional gallops.
McCain famously said, “salt water is so good for legs.”
Hydrotherapy was nothing new—horses had long been treated and exercised in rivers and the sea—but Red Rum's extraordinary success going on to win the Grand National an incredible three times: 1973, 1974 and 1977 helped make the idea of using water as part of an elite racehorse's training and rehabilitation programme famous.
Interestingly, it would be more than 20 years after Red Rum's winning days before the first commercial equine hydrotherapy units began to emerge!
22/08/2026
✨ It’s National Racehorse Week ✨🐎
Follow us this week as we take a closer look at the evolving role of hydrotherapy in racehorse care.
We will delve into how hydrotherapy continues to develop as part of the wider approach to supporting the health, welfare and performance of the racehorse from training and conditioning to recovery and rehabilitation; sharing an insight into our first hand experiences of using the water treadmill & spa with racehorses .
Marston Stud Equine Hydrotherapy and Rehab
Therapist led hydrotherapy, specialising in the Race & Performance horse 🌊💦🐎
📍 Marston St Lawrence, Banbury
📞 07747234845
✉️ [email protected]
We asked… What do you see in this horse’s L.H. movement pattern? 🌊💦🐴
What do we see? An inward arc of the left hind limb during swing phase of stride.
When assessing movement, we ask: Is it consistent? Asymmetrical? Does it change on land vs. in water?
We consider: clinical history, pain/discomfort, strength and asymmetry, conformation and compensatory movement.
In this horse, the subtle deviation is only visible in slow motion. He is fit, well and recently vet-assessed. He has mild pelvic asymmetry following a previous, fully healed injury.
Here we are seeing a functional postural asymmetry, influenced by reduced hindquarter strength and a tendency to become one-sided.
Notice the (excessive) water turbulence—even at < mid-level depth. He has learned to rush and pull himself forward rather than fully engage from behind, reinforcing compensatory movement patterns & potentially increasing the risk of injury.
So what do we do?
Slow it down. Maintain low–mid water height, encourage straightness and promote hindquarter engagement.
Often, the smallest adjustments create the biggest changes. 😊
Observe. Record. Review. Reassess. Adjust. 🔄
Effective rehabilitation is about responding to what the body is telling us—not simply following a rigid plan 🌊💦🐴
Marston Stud Equine Hydrotherapy and Rehab - Therapist led Equine Hydrotherapy. Follow us to keep updated.
Observation is everything. 👀
It’s not just the initial assessment that matters—continual reassessment, re-evaluation and appropriate adjustment are key to successful training & rehabilitation 🌊💦🐴
We continually observe, assess and document movement from all angles throughout the process.
Videos also allows us to have visual comparisons & review movement in greater detail, and sometimes slowing the footage down highlights subtle areas that aren’t always clearly visible in real time.
Look at the footfall flight of the left hind on this video. What do you see?
We will reveal on Wednesday what we see, what questions such a movement pattern raises and what we do next.
Observe. Record. Review. Reassess. Adjust. 🔄 Because effective training, rehabilitation and therapy is about responding to what the body is telling us—not simply following a rigid plan.
🌊💦🐴🧐😊
Marston Stud Equine Hydrotherapy and Rehab
Therapist led Hydrotherapy specialising in the race & performance horse
📍 Marston St Lawrence, Banbury
📞 07747234845
✉️ [email protected]
12/08/2026
🐴 Looking for a different way to keep your horse fit, strong and engaged ❓
The equine water treadmill brings together controlled movement, resistance and buoyancy for a low-impact workout that works the body in a completely different way💦🌊🐴💙
💦 Fitness | Conditioning | Variety | Recovery | Rehab | strengthening 💦
Less impact. More purpose. Smarter training !
📩 Get in touch to find out how water treadmill sessions could add to your horse’s routine our Therapist led Equine Hydrotherapy team are happy to answer any questions you may have.
Marston Stud Equine Hydrotherapy and Rehab
📍 Marston St Lawrence, Banbury
📞 07747234845
✉️ [email protected]
| Monday | 9am - 5pm |
| Tuesday | 9am - 5pm |
| Wednesday | 9am - 5pm |
| Thursday | 9am - 5pm |
| Friday | 9am - 5pm |
| Saturday | 9am - 12pm |