Sponsor Spotlight: Omega Alpha

Greetings Eventing Nation, I hope you had a great weekend.  I spent my entire Sunday excitedly planning every outfit for each day at the USEA Convention (which starts Thursday), including my eventing boxers and my boots with the fur for the Saturday gala.  Because, as you all know, I never procrastinate…right.  I want to give a big thanks to Annie for holding down the fort today and Coren will be along shortly with Monday’s news and notes.  But first I have our inaugural ‘sponsor spotlight post,’ where each Sunday night we will give a shameless plug to one of our many wonderful sponsors.  Like most theme posts on EN, the ‘sponsor spotlights’ will probably mysteriously disappear sometime randomly in the future when we get bored of writing them.  But now, let’s chat about our friends at Omega Alpha.

Omega Alpha has been a great supporter of Eventing Nation for a long time and they were one of our original 5 advertisers.  As we all know, they are a supplement company in North America that makes human, equine, and pet supplements with a special emphasis on scientific research.  Omega Alpha works closely with vets and they were originally recommended to me by one of the best vets in eventing who praised their product quality, customer support, and emphasis on research.  Since then, I have heard great things about Omega Alpha products from professionals and OA contest winners here on EN, and I have seen the positive results of their supplements on my own horses.  Two crowd favorite supplements seem to be:

Gastra-FX: Everyone read Leah Lang-Cluscic’s guest blog a few days ago which explained that Gastra-FX helped her horse BJ start eating well again as he was recovering from ulcers.  Gastra-FX generally helps to settle the horse’s stomach and can help make them more rideable if they have digestive issues, especially in the dressage phase.  In general, between keeping our horses in a stall for half the day, all the traveling, and the necessary diet to build muscle, we put our event horses through a pretty unnatural routine.  Gastra-FX is a great way to keep our horses’ digestive tracks healthy.

Chill: As we all know, our event horses, especially our wonderful OTTBs, can get a little excited at times–particularly when the fitness ramps up for three-days.  I try to do everything possible in training to avoid having to use a supplement to help calm my horses, but, when I encounter an especially overzealous youngster, I have found that Chill is a good tool to relax them.

For more information on these and Omega Alpha’s many other supplements, visit their website:

www.omegaalphaequine.com

Getting your horse on a good supplement routine is a very important goal and the winter is a great time to try some new supplements because we don’t have competitions breathing down our necks every other week.  Thanks to Omega Alpha for their ongoing support of Eventing Nation, and, as always, thank you for supporting our sponsors.  Go eventing.