E-Trakka® – Equine Fitness Monitoring System

The Future is now – every beat counts.
E-Trakka® – Equine Fitness Monitoring System
“If there’s a way to do it better – find it”
Thomas Edison
Web www.etrakka.com.au
Proudly developed by Equitronics Pty Ltd, Perth, Australia.
Email andrew@etrakka.com.au
What is the E-Trakka system?
E-Trakka is an equine fitness monitoring system which includes a state of the art saddle blanket, heart rate
monitor, stride length measuring and a GPS speed and timing system. Every second the blanket records
speed, stride length and heart rate information which is then downloaded to a “trainer friendly” program
called Profiler. The end result is a snap shot in time of your horse’s physical condition, E-Trakka is like a
window into the horse’s fitness and welfare on any given day. Over 25,000 readings have now been
recorded during actual training sessions and the evidence is overwhelming as to how this information can
empower trainers. See the evidence in detail at the end of this brochure.
The trainer’s thought process using the E-Trakka system.
Step 1- The E-Trakka
Blanket is used during
trackwork and
automatically stores
GPS, heart rate and
stride length
information for
multiple horses.
Step 4- Using the extra
knowledge the trainer
now includes this
information into his
next training
decisions. Decisions
that now include
quantitive
information.
Step 2- The E-Trakka
blanket then easily
downloads the training
information into the
profiler analysis and
viewing program.
Step 3- The trainer
reviews the information
and takes actions as
neccessary. E.g. Is the
horse fit enough to race.
The Key Benefits are –
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Assists in the determination of the horse’s health and fitness.
Highlights the horse’s strengths and weaknesses.
Assists in the assessment of the horse’s talent.
Helps identify lameness issues earlier.
Allows training to be tailored to the individual.
Helps with race distance selection and tactics.
Trainers benefit from the knowledge already accumulated from 20,000 E-Trakka® readings.
Provides a management tool for training programs.
Designed by horseman for horseman, easy to use, extremely robust, and very accurate. E-Trakka was
developed by a company that understands trainers and what the results mean. We promise to help you
learn about the system, provide all the support you will need and pass on our knowledge to you. E-Trakka is
the most technically advanced training system in the world. In fact the only one of its type and quality
The Revolutionary E-TRAKKA® Saddle Blanket
Equitronics proudly develop and manufacture the state of the art E-Trakka® saddle blanket. The blanket is
the result of 15 years Research and Development “at the track” in the real world environment. In a world
first, recent technology developed by Equitronics enables the E-Trakka to accurately measure stride length.
Key Features
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The GPS System is extremely high performance. The main components are of military standard,
guaranteeing that the results are the
best accuracy possible.
Electrodes are hand made using
military specification cables.
Fully automatic, just turn the power on
Quality materials used with the blanket
ensuring a long life.
Waterproof, dustproof quality METAL
boxes used to house electronics.
Carbon fibre used with the GPS
antenna spine. It will not break!
The antenna is at the back of the saddle blanket
General Functions
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50 hours of data storage
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Multiple use, swap from horse to horse.
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Download data via radio or cable.
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15+ hours of battery life.
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Easy preparation (1 min)
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No rider involvement or attachment.
View a video of saddling with the E-Trakka blanket
at http://etrakka.com.au/e-trakka-blanket/
Case Studies and understanding E-Trakka®
How easy is it to learn what E-Trakka® readings mean?
The basic concept of comparing heart rate to speed is quickly understood by trainers who have never been
exposed to the information before. Most trainers understand good and bad recoveries, sick horses, lame
horses etc. What most trainers have not seen before is how that information is graphically represented in
Profiler and how much value you can gain from it. Now you can!
Case study trainer Danny Morton, Perth.
The Danny Morton trained Australian horse of the year Scenic
Blast (2009) and King Stand Stake’s winner at Newmarket in
the UK is one of the most high profile winners amongst many
of E-Trakka® stories. E-Trakka® collected over 100 readings of
Scenic Blast during his career and Danny used his readings to
fine tune his training and specifically aimed Scenic Blast at
sprinting.
Danny Morton riding Scenic Shot (3 million in stakes)
Visit http://etrakka.com.au/case-study/scenic-blast/
Case study trainer Pat Carey, Melbourne.
Pat Carey learnt more about his elite staying horses
and knew he had a good horse in Ethiopia BEFORE he
won the AJC Derby. Pat now owns two E-Trakka’s.
Pat Carey after the AJC Derby win in 2012
Visit http://etrakka.com.au/case-study/pat-carey-e-trakka-and-inside-racing-magazine/ for Pats Story.
The opportunity to be a trainer of the future. (The future is now!!)
More than 25,000 readings, that’s a lot of information. Over 25 individual Group 1 winners that’s a lot of
elite horses. 1000 slow and sick horses, that’s normal. Just imagine if you were constantly recording all of
your horse’s key statistics and comparing them to known knowledge, would that mean that you learnt
more about your equine athletes and became a better trainer, it certainly does.
Many E-Trakka® case studies among multiple trainers have proven the immense value and benefit of the
knowledge to trainers. You now have the opportunity to change your future as a trainer, for the better.
“If we didn’t advance we would still be living in caves” – Pat Carey
E-Trakka®- Profiler viewing and analysis software
Following is a very small collection of E-Trakka software images, there is much more.
The first page you see when you open the Profiler program is a list of today’s workouts as below.
You then select a horse such as Red Blast (6 starts 4 wins) to open and review their summary page.
Other Profiler Features
You can then bring up a list for the horse to quickly review key characteristics and compare workouts.
You then might compare workouts of either the same horse or different horses.
Replay Function
The replay function allows for clarification and viewing as it happened of heart rate and speed. For instance
with the horse working around a turn out wide the sectional time may be 13 seconds for 200m (or one
furlong), but when you replay the workout you can actually see that the horse was travelling at 12.1 SPF
(seconds per furlong) meaning his sectional would of been quicker if he was on the fence.
Stride Length Measurement
The addition of stride length measurement
has added another 10 percent of
information to the E-Trakka profiles. This
knowledge is set to become a standard
pre-requisite of equine assessment.
Initial results are revolutionary in the
industry and this amazing easy to
understand information is collected
automatically with E-Trakka
Read the summary using the link below for more details
Visit http://etrakka.com.au/stride-length/
E-Trakka reading examples
Group One winners – Pinker Pinker W S Cox Plate, Mosheen VRC Oakes.
A common occurrence for Group horses, a 21.4 - 21.6 sec last 400 in training and high peak speed
E-Trakka reading examples
Two sick horses
E-Trakka® reading examples
Lameness, bone chips in the knee before and after.
E-Trakka reading examples
Identifying poor quality horses.
E-Trakka reading examples
Talent identification, Readings before they won their first start.
A final message from the inventor Andrew Stuart:
A product that was meant to be:
A lifelong passion for horse racing has led to the development of E-Trakka®. After serving five years as a
TALL apprentice jockey (420 rides for 55 winners) I was destined to become a racehorse trainer. To further
my knowledge I became an assistant foreman for “Cups King” Bart Cummings to find out why he was so
successful. I did find out, the Bart Cummings system was simply the most professional system of its time
leaving no stone unturned in the endeavour to produce extremely fit, competitive racehorses.
Following in the Bart Cummings methodology of professionalism I was one of the early trainers to use heart
rate monitors in the late 80s and early 90s. I soon realised the huge potential that heart rate monitoring
provided but knew that the heart rate would have to be compared against the speed (work load), and that
trainers would need to easily store and visualise the information using the new technology “computers”.
And so the concept of E-Trakka® was born 21 years ago.
My career took a new turn, sharing the power of the
knowledge I had learnt with the thoroughbred racing
industry and developing the tools to do it.
Being a horseman first, I can confidently tell all trainers I
have never seen an E-Trakka® reading that as a
horseman I did not learn something extra about an
equine athlete. The small effort involved in using
E-Trakka® will be the most valuable time you will spend
in training. It will empower you to learn more about the
fitness of your horses and so therefore make more
knowledgeable decisions. The future of training is here.
Andrew Stuart (middle) receiving a government Innovation award 2008.
I always say in racehorse training you get five points for a good decision and lose ten for a bad one.
E-Trakka® reduces the error in training and enhances good decisions. E-Trakka does not replace the trainer,
it never will; the E-Trakka system simply provides you with a powerful training tool that provides
information to benefit your knowledge. In the end this means more winners for YOU.
Please feel free to ring Andrew, 0422 868 181 or Int +61 8 9371 8441 to discuss how E-Trakka can help you.
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning”.
Albert Einstein