Equinety Helps Severe EPM -

Reining - Lame issues - Faster Recovery

 

Speaker 1:                    Hello and welcome to another Equinety podcast. We are going to the land down under and talking with our guest this week, Tania Gibson who is- splits her time between Tennessee, her home here in the States and back home in Australia. So without further ado, Tania, welcome to the show.

Tania Gibson:                Hi thank you very much. I'm excited to talk to you about how my journey has been with your product Equinety for sure.

Speaker 1:                    Well that's great and were excited to have you and I know we're gonna get a little bit into your background but this podcast is going to be based around something a lot of people have questions about which is EPM and you have one of your good horses that has kind of battled that through the years. And also in your sport of reining there's a lot of lameness issues and all kinds of things there to keep those horses healthy because it's a pretty demanding sport. But before [crosstalk 00:00:56] before we get into that, why don't you just spend a little bit of time and tell us a little bit about your background, how you got started in the horse industry and where you are now.

Tania Gibson:                Okay, too easy. I'll make it as short and sweet as I can. I grew up in central Queensland in Australia which is in the cattle country. My dad was on cattle stations, and then we got into the coal mining industry. Always had horses, my dad always [inaudible 00:01:22] stuff like that, mainly we did cow work more than anything.

Tania Gibson:                Campdrafting is a big sport back home so I grew up in that field. When I left school at 15 I went on a cattle property so. Hence I campdrafted for ages. Had my kids, got married, kept in the campdraft world, done a bit of bower racing, that sort of thing, and then eventually we too got into the coal mining industry, bought a property and I did actually start to see reining probably in the early or mid 90's rather. And then by the late 90's/early 2000's I looked a little bit more at the AQHA reining, we didn't have a lot of reining in our area.

Tania Gibson:                So I stepped out of the campdraft world into the western performance world I guess you could say. And from there I moved up into reining, traveled 11 hours four times a year to go to major shows. And from there ended up training probably 2007. Moved to the States in 2013 to further my education in the reining being that over here is way way bigger than over home and then from Westboro moved to Tennessee where I met my husband of now and have been here ever since pretty much.

Tania Gibson:                And yeah I split my time up between going home and I still have coaching and training things back home. Probably more so over home than here. Just a little hard to get into when you're not really anybody. It's a big industry over here but I'm learning heaps and that's the main thing.

Speaker 1:                    Sure.

Tania Gibson:                That's sort of about me, yep.

Speaker 1:                    So you put on a lot of clinics and travel back and forth back home to Australia.

Tania Gibson:                Yes.

Speaker 1:                    Right.

Tania Gibson:                Yep. When I go home for four weeks it's pretty much my feet hit the ground from that plane and I start work until I leave, yeah.

Speaker 1:                    [crosstalk 00:03:13] And for those who have never flown to Australia from the middle of America, Tennessee how long of a journey is that?

Tania Gibson:                Usually you know by the time you get in the car, get to where you’re going to start and then get back...