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Marie-Laure Collet has run Haras de Clairefontaine, in Mayenne, France, since 2008. She added NOVOSTABLE to what she already had for foaling, on the stud's own cameras, with nothing on the mare. Her account, filmed in one take.

Julie Mestrallet took over Haras de l'Aumonerie in 2011, a sport horse operation she turned into a thoroughbred breeding operation. Here is her testimonial, in her own words. She speaks French, with French subtitles on screen, and the written translation follows below. The night watchman maths, put by a breeder We asked her what led her to look for a solution. Her answer is the clearest economic argument we have heard, and it does not come from us. I do not have many foalings

Guillaume Vitse founded Normandie Breeding with his wife Camille in 2018. Around fifteen broodmares, around fifteen foalings a year, 35 hectares. What he calls a boutique operation. Here is his testimonial, in his own words. He speaks French, with French subtitles on screen, and the written translation follows below. It is a family operation, nothing overloaded, not too many horses. We asked him what problem led him to look for something like this. His answer starts by contra

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 w

A broodmare is not a twenty minute event. She is a season. And the losses do not all happen during the birth: some are set up weeks before it, and some happen in the days after, when everyone has relaxed. What it costs when it goes wrong is not a vet bill. It is a foal, sometimes the mare, and years of breeding decided in one night. Most studs cannot staff a night watchman for ten mares spread over four months, so the nights land on the person who owns the place. Weeks before

The box is not a natural environment for a horse. It is often necessary, and everything you put in place makes a difference. Three needs, the behaviours that tell you one of them is missing, and seven things that actually change the day.

Most behaviour alerting systems start by watching a horse for days to work out what is normal for him. That approach has a hole in it, and the hole is exactly where it matters most. Here is how TEO works instead, and why it is live on any horse in about 30 minutes.

Colic is the leading cause of death in horses. It is not a disease, it is a syndrome, and its earliest signs are behavioural. Here is what happens inside the horse, what the stages look like from outside the box, and why the delay before someone walks past is the part you can actually change.

Four miles out of Newmarket, the Gredley family's Stetchworth and Middle Park Studs foals around 40 mares a season. Paul Naughton, who manages the place, gives his account of his first foaling season with NOVOSTABLE. Filmed in one take, no script, no voice over.