Equine Salt Therapy
Perform ♦ Recover ♦ Live Well ♦ Naturally
Equine Salt Therapy offers a unique treatment for high performance equine athletes.
Give your horse the best drug-free therapy available for optimum health and performance.
Benefits of Equine Salt Rooms
Drug free treatments for high performance equine athletes.
Our world first Equine Salt Rooms aim to improve and maintain performance, recovery and wellbeing of equine athletes via our patented dry salt therapy delivery system.
The dual treatment offers benefits for skin conditions and respiratory complaints of which horses are often susceptible.
Drug Free Therapy
The use of Equine Salt Therapy reduces the reliance on antibiotics and other often harmful medications by providing a natural solution to day to day lung and skin issues. Our salt rooms provide a safe and calm environment reducing stress on the horse.
Dedicated Decongestant
Despite their size and strength horses are sensitive animals and respiratory problems aren’t always evident, but can play havoc on a horse’s demeanour and performance. Mucus can range in severity from Grade 1 to Grade 5. By delivering a finely measured dose of Ultisalt (TM) the horse can stand calmly and ingest the salt which activates their own mucociliary escalator.
Lower Airway Disease (L.A.D)
LAD is fairly common and often undiagnosed in horses that are usually retired from racing for poor performance. A recent UK study (can we link to this?) indicates a link between poor performance and undiagnosed L.A.D. Our fine salt particles are ingested deep into the horses lower airway and successfully targeting L.A.D.
Reduces Travel Sickness
Transport of horses by road and sea can make them susceptible to pleuropneumonia or travel sickness. This is a respiratory infection that affects the lungs and pleural (chest) cavity in horses. Salt therapy before and after travel, uses the known antibacterial qualities of Ultisalt (TM) to target offending bacteria.
Treats Mud Fever
Salt therapy aids in recovery of various inflammatory conditions such as summer sores, mud fever and cracked heels. Salt treatment soothes irritation and dermatitis in the lower limbs of horses due to its antibacterial and antifungal properties.
Rapid Skin Rash Clearance
Horses are susceptible to various skin complaints such as dermatitis, boils, mud-fever and ringworm. In salt rooms a microclimate environment is created and when the salt settles and warms on the coat it is drawn into the skin. The salt then has an antibacterial affect which successfully treats skin conditions.
Antibacterial
In many respiratory tract conditions, airways become narrowed and irritated filling with mucus where bacteria flourish. Not only does salt help expel bacteria through mucus clearance, but is a natural antibacterial.
Aids Recovery
Salt therapy not only helps pre and post race but pre and post training as well. Our trainers use Equine Salt Therapy not just for post race recovery but as part of their day-to-day training tools.
Unique technology
The fine dry salt particles are distributed through the room via a halo-generator to create a perfect microclimate for optimal absorption.
proven results
Equine Salt Therapy offers natural, non-invasive treatment. Salt therapy provides a dual solution to common day to day horse complaints.
Australian owned
This unique adaptation of salt therapy for use with horses was developed and perfected by our founder, Richard Butterworth in Australia.
Word From Our Founder
Richard Butterworth
Founder, Equine Salt Therapy
My passion and love of horses and the racing industry started with my ancestors. Both avid racing fans, I learnt the ins and outs of the racing industry while spending time with them. This passion wasn’t just for the industry but for the powerful majestic creatures that are the real stars of the show.
When we came upon salt therapy we knew there was a possibility we could help trainers, owners and of course the horses themselves, to train and perform better. As an animal lover, the fact that it was an all natural, holistic approach appealed to me most.
Years later, we have seen Equine Salt Therapy go from strength to strength and I am proud and privileged to spend each day improving the on and off track performances of some of the greatest equine athletes in the world. It is my hope that Equine Salt Therapy can be offered to all horses competing in the racing industry, if not just for their improved performance, but for the lifelong health benefits they receive.
Black Caviar’s trainer Peter Moody Talks About Salt Therapy Benefits
Watch Connections TVN segment about Equine Salt Therapy where Black Caviar’s trainer Peter Moody and Richard Butterworth from Equine Salt Therapy talk about the use and results of the treatment in race horses.
Our Famous Salties
Lord of the Sky
Robbie Laing
Polanski
Robbie Laing
Managhar
Peter Moody
Black Caviar
Peter Moody
Five and a Half Star
Anthony Cummings
Shadows in the Sun
Anthony Cummings
Happy Trails
Paul Beshara
Villa Verde
Anthony Cummings
If you are interested in hearing more about how Equine Salt Therapy can aid in your horses training, racing and recovery please contact us via phone or email.
Origins Of Salt therapy
Alexander The Great
Way back in 325 BC, when he wasn’t building empires, Alexander the Great was discovering the benefits of salt therapy for both humans and animals.
During his rampage through Asia, Alexander and his army of men and their horses were resting in Khewra, modern day Pakistan. It was here that they noticed some of the horses licking the stones on the ground. At the time, he and his men, as well as their horses, were weary and dying from a lack of salt minerals, so they started ingesting the salt. Not only did this event lead to their recovery to health, and the discovery of the Khewra Salt Mine, but it is also said to be the very beginning of salt therapy as we know it today.
OUR HAPPY CLIENTS
Equine Salt Therapy is a great natural training aid that does not upset the horses preparation when dealing with lung and skin issues.
Group Level Trainer Cranbourne Turf Club
Salt Therapy was a very positive addition to what we can offer the horses and give a greater degree of possibility of success for the clients. The sole reason we got one horse back on track was the Salt Therapy after the 12 months of being very sick and it is performing better than ever. It's certainly a very positive treatment for our stable.
Five and a Half Star & Shadows in the Sun
We've been using Salt Therapy over the last couple of years and found it to be very beneficial especially for horses with mucus issues. It's alleviated the need for antibiotic. Just recently, we took the horses into the salt room pre-race, for 3-4 days just to make sure that we covered all the bases. We'll keep using it for sure.
Cranbourne Turf Club
Like a lot of this with training... This is one of those percentage things. You hear of so many horses pulling up after a race being disappointed by a bit of mucus in their trachea after the race. Like Polanski, week leading up to the Derby he was in the salt room, so we can take him there 100% right.
Polanski & Lord of the Sky
Help your horse reach its ultimate potential
Equine Salt Therapy specialises in the high performance equine athlete available to registered trainers and affiliated equine professionals. If your horses are suffering from skin conditions or respiratory illnesses, or you just wish to improve the on track, training and recovery of your horses then Equine Salt Therapy can assist.
