🌡️ Hot Weather Reminder – Horse Welfare Comes First! 🐴 With Moonyoonooka Polocrosse Club, Perth Polocrosse Club Inc. and Serpentine Foothills Polocrosse Tournament back-to-back events, and the upcoming CZ/SZ Coaching Clinic Southern Zone Polocrosse - WA Central Zone Polocrosse. Western Australia, we want to remind all members and participants to stay vigilant about the warm weather conditions and to always prioritise the health and welfare of our horses. 🔥 Key Reminders for Hot Weather Play:

Signs of a horse overheating. Profuse sweating or not sweating If the horse is not sweating to cool themselves —their coats will look like velvet and stand up on the end Very Fast breathing /panting like the foal in the video — this is very inefficient for the horse because heat created by the effort of breathing so quickly actually makes them hotter They stop eating If over heating continues they will show signs of colic and lay down Their rectal temperature will rise We cool our horses off at