The Equicizer has been used around the world for over the past 15 years in training jockeys. The Equicizer was intially designed for jockeys in thoroubred racing. Lynne, That was a very good point mentioning that you can build the Equicizer up to running speeds. The neck and body have seperate motion and ressitance when working together become annimated and simulate the real horses movement. The more energy the rider puts into the motion can build up to a canter. Sitting and gently rocking creates the sensation of a horse walking. Meg, The Equicizer is a life like rocking horse.
To answer both you questions startin with Meg Two attendants will operate the simulator and provide assistance with helmets, safety vests, and riding crops.įrom The Blood-Horse, you both very much for your replies to my post. The museum will charge a $5.00 fee for non-members, while museum members will have free access to the ride for limited daily use. Safety precautions include a pre-simulation fitness test for all participants, which will take place on a standard Equicizer. The equine simulator is programmed to three separate simulations: a jog around the Oklahoma training track, a break from the gate to a slow gallop on the same surface, and a 1 1/8-mile turf race filmed at Hollywood Park. “Nobody in the world has put all this hardware together to provide a ride of this kind.”
“We’re trying to show racing fans just how athletic a jockey really has to be, and it’s a very unique machine,” said Ed Ostberg of Design Function Inc., the Queensbury, New York firm that developed the exhibit for the museum.
Under development for approximately three years, the $117,000 computerized exhibit will give visitors an opportunity to ride a mechanized horse, originally developed to train jockeys in Europe, while seeing synchronized video clips. 3 museum communications director Mike Kane said. The National Racing Museum and Hall of Fame is expected to unveil its one-of-a-kind equine simulator during a press conference Aug.
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