Every horse's temperature, every day, without a thermometer
In a yard of forty horses, nobody takes forty temperatures. Not because it does not matter. Because it is not realistic: the time it takes, the handling, the one who will not stand for it, the kick you get on the tenth.
So it gets done on the horse somebody already suspects. Which means it gets done once the problem is visible, and by then you are not measuring, you are confirming.
What Thermal Care is
A calibrated thermal camera in the corridor. The horse walks past on his way out or on his way back in, and he is measured in three to five seconds. Accuracy is plus or minus half a degree.
Nothing goes on the horse. No rectal thermometer, no strap, no device to fit and refit, no extra pair of hands. The measurement happens on a horse who is already walking down the aisle for another reason, which is the only way a daily reading on every horse ever actually happens.
Temperature, and hot spots
Two things come out of it. The horse's temperature, and hot spots: a point on the body that is warmer than the rest. A hot spot is a measurement, not a verdict. It tells you where to look, and it lets you point your vet or your physio at something instead of at a hunch.
To be clear about what this is not: NOVOSTABLE measures, it does not diagnose. What a number means for that horse on that day is your vet's call, not ours. What changes is that you have the number today, on every horse, instead of in three days on the one who has started to look wrong.
Why it matters in a training yard
A trainer answers to an owner for a horse he does not own. Travel, a hard piece of work, a race, a new arrival in the yard: these are the moments where something shifts quietly, and where a reading you did not take is a decision you did not get to make. Knowing on the day, rather than on the day it becomes obvious, is the whole point.
It sits on top of the behaviour, it does not replace it
Thermal Care is one service among several. The same system measures the behaviour of each horse in his box, recognises behaviour that is not normal, and calls you. Nobody sits in front of a screen, and it runs on the cameras you already have. The thermal reading in the corridor and the behaviour in the box answer the same question from two angles.
For the behaviour side, our model, TEO, is already trained, on more than 25 billion records and over a thousand real cases. There is no learning period for each horse. Around thirty minutes of the horse being in the box is enough for it to work, so a horse who arrives in the yard tonight is under alert that same night.
See it on your own yard
Ask for a demo and we will show you what a corridor reading looks like on a string like yours, and what the behaviour side flags at night: request a demo.
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