Posted: 25th April 2023 | Back to news feed
After a long and gruelling winter, it’s time to get horses back into action for spring! With the assistance of a Monarch Walker, your horse can burn off any excess energy in a controlled environment, at a suitable speed, reducing their risk of injury. Now you can prepare them for work and get them ready for the season safely with this clever training tool.
Gentle movement, with the assistance of a Monarch Walker, will encourage your horse’s vital signs to return to normal levels after vigorous exercise. It helps to dissipate the excess heat built up in your horse’s body which results in quicker recovery and can help reduce injury and stiffness. Use it as part of a proper warm-up and cool-down in your horse’s training routine to help prevent conditions such as colic, metabolic collapse, and heatstroke.
Horse walkers are a popular and vital piece of equipment for training horses and keeping them in top condition and good health. They can help relieve boredom in stabled horses and are a helpful tool in regular conditioning. Since they can operate at a variety of speed settings, you can also maximize the benefits by reaching a light trot or steady canter on the larger professional models only.
Monarch have a whole range of horse walkers available, each offering a two year guarantee on parts and labour, with a further three years on parts alone. The entry level RoyalHorse Walker is affordable yet high quality, perfect for smaller private yards. The mid-range model, Imperial has a 6’0″ high static curved mesh inner fence and a 7’6″ high static curved mesh outer fence, for the purpose of keeping the horses more focused. There is a Consort Plus Horse Walker and a Sovereign Plus, both of which provide extra protection. The Consort Plus is their most sort after walker, intended for professional use and is mostly used for competition or race horses. It has the added protection of 4’0” of rubber on the inner and outer fence.
All Monarch Horse Walkers have a wider track way of 6'6” to allow larger horses to turn round. They have highly professional fitting teams and a very experienced and knowledgeable service engineer so you can trust that you will be looked after when choosing Monarch Equestrian.
Make an enquiry on their website today for further information and choose the right Monarch Horse Walker for you.
The Royal (entry level) starts from £11,810*
*Price is based on 4 Horse Walker with Electronic Control Box, ABS and Electrified Pushers.
The Consort Plus Horse Walker, prices start from £15,705
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