Yesterday I spent the day in Champneys Tring. They have an ice chamber where tempatures drop to -135c. The chamber itself is not as bad as one might imagine. It is of course very cold, but its not painful in any way. The procedure is staright forward enough. There is an amazing girl in charge of it called Renetta, she dresses you in all the protective socks and head bands etc and makes you feel very much at ease. Once dressed you enter a pre-chamber -80c for 30 seconds before going into the main chamber for 3 mins. The last 10 seconds are counted down (much to ones releif) with hand signals by Renetta. Once out you are put through a few little warm up drills before entering the pre-chamber for another 3 mins. After which you are put through 45 mins of hard physiothearpy drills on a Vibro Gym, quite exhausting! I magaged to get myself around the chambers on crutches allowing circulation to be maintained. I had 2 sessions of it one at 10a.m and the second at 1p.m I felt quite exhausted last night and slept very well. If I have no adverse reactions within the next 24 hours I will be doing 5 days of it next week. My leg feels so much better for it, the muscles are relaxed and the pain has eased considerably. This treatment is really worth knowing about, although I beleive there is no hard core medical evidence on the treatment you only have to read the vistors book to see how versatile it is. Its clear that it has amazing results on a vast number of injuries and medical health complaints. The whole team at Champneys were incredibly helpful and friendly. I am very thankful to them and Charlie Brooks for arranging it. This treatment is available to anyone and can be booked directly through the Champneys website.
With the sales season just about to get into full swing I desperately need to get myself sound. I am consigning a full brother to Kayf Aramis at Doncaster May Sale. He's a super horse by the right sire and I am sure he will be well received. The concern I share with every consigner is how strong the Store market will be. The trainers now without question want form horses. However the form horses have to come from somewhere! I will also be busy trying to buy 2 new horses for the Cottage Field Syndicate, 2 for the orginal syndicate set up by Charlie Brooks and I and 2 more for a new syndicate set up by Charlie and I. A busy time ahead, thankfully Charlie will help me once David Minton produces the final list for us.
I am now off to swim the channel.......
