A newly formed Gloucestershire company has launched a range of advanced, yet simple to install and operate lighting products which enable horse owners of all kinds to enhance the performance, health and wellbeing of their horses.
Based near Cirencester, HorseLight UK is the brainchild of former junior international horse rider and pharmaceutical executive Torjus Baalack, who has adapted proven technology used in the dairy farming industry to offer new potential for the equestrian sector. This centres around the science of the Circadian Rhythm – the body-clock of all mammals that tells our bodies when to sleep, rise, and eat, and regulates many physiological processes – which can be positively influenced to deliver far-reaching benefits.
HorseLight’s range of special LED lighting units are designed to emit a very specific spectrum of light which replicates summer sunshine inside the stable all year round. The effects on horses are scientifically proven, spanning everything from sporting performance and breeding, to coat condition and general health and wellbeing.
Co-founder and owner of HorseLight, Torjus Baalack, says:
“HorseLight forms part of a new science-driven approach to keeping horses in top condition, fit and healthy and, which for those who are competing, provides the opportunity to gain an extra marginal edge and a competitive advantage. We all feel better and more energetic during the summer months, and horses are no different, so finding a way to replicate those conditions for longer is only going to be beneficial – that’s why HorseLight is more than just a stable light.
“We’re the first British-based company dedicated to making this proven technology accessible to all horse owners, which we can do because of our sister company’s extensive experience in supplying and installing this type of advanced lighting in the dairy industry.”
HorseLight’s technology has directly evolved from that of its sister company, DairyLight, which has been providing lighting solutions for dairy farmers for more than six years. In a clear demonstration of how this blue light technology benefits all mammals, robust studies on DairyLight’s impact on dairy herds show that milk yields can be increased by as much as 10%, with improved food conversion when cows are kept under such light conditions.
For breeders of performance horses in particular wanting early foals, the benefits of HorseLight are most valuable. Commencing light therapy at the correct time of year can help in bring the mares into season early, with more exact gestation periods for early foals and better early foaling weights, and therefore better yearling weights. Light therapy also helps to ready stallions earlier in the season.
