Our Story

Equine America UK is a global leader in the equine, canine and human supplement industry.

Still a family run business, founded in the United Kingdom in 1997, we were originally known for bringing Cortaflex to the UK. 25 years on, our extensive range of targeted nutritional supplements and external products combine tradition with scientific research to provide innovative products to support optimum equine health and performance.

As part of this process, Equine America is collaborating with leading veterinary universities to further our understanding of equine nutrition, as well as helping to develop new products, alongside our own, highly qualified and experienced nutritionists.

Equine America is extremely proud of its global customer base, supplying elite riders from all disciplines, including Olympic and World Champions, as well as leisure riders. 

All our products are manufactured in the UK, in food industry standard factories, using only the freshest, most innovative and effective ingredients available from approved suppliers. We use state of the art, unique, fingerprint laser quality testing on every single ingredient to ensure a uniform strength and quality along with an exclusive mixing process to ensure that each scoop contains equal amounts of active ingredients. Our BETA NOPS and UFAS accreditations reassure customers that our products do not contain prohibited substances. We also comply with the regulations administered by the UK Veterinary Medicines Directorate and the Food Standards Agency.

Our “30-day money back guarantee” serves to reinforce the total confidence that we have in our products.

Built on Science

LASER QUALITY TESTING ON EVERY INGREDIENT

All our products are manufactured in the UK in food standard factories, using only the freshest, most innovative and effective ingredients

Lead Nutritionist

Deborah Leabeater, MSc, CBiol, MRSB

Deborah was instrumental to the re-formulation of Equine America products following the move to UK manufacturing in 2018. She is now heavily involved in the the design and development of all our product ranges, including EA Nutra.

Respected in her field, Deborah has been nutrition consultant to several of the UK’s leading equine veterinary practices, trainers and studs, in both the Thoroughbred industry, and the competition horse world. She has a Masters’ degree in Equine Science, is a Chartered Biologist and member of the Nutrition Society. Deborah has presented papers at veterinary conferences in many European countries, The USA, The Middle East, and South Africa, as well as at the prestigious British Equine Veterinary Association’s annual Congress.

Tried, Tested & Accredited

The majority of the supplement industry, in particular those who are accredited under the BETA NOPS scheme, work extremely hard to prevent prohibited substances being present in their nutritional supplements, as demonstrated by the infrequent positive dope tests globally caused by supplements, especially when compared to other feed or forage sources.

As a responsible horse owner or rider, we recommend you choose your supplements extremely carefully, only feeding supplements manufactured by companies with the appropriate certifications and safeguards in place, such as the BETA NOPS scheme, which is well recognised in the UK, and increasingly across the world.

Here at Equine America we take Clean Sport extremely seriously, and we utilise every measure we can to reduce the risk of contamination by prohibited substances. Our supplements are manufactured in the highest standard accredited facilities, using innovative and effective ingredients sourced from approved and accredited suppliers, that have full traceability at all stages of our manufacturing process. Our supplements are never made or stored in facilities that handle pharmaceuticals (medicines) to ensure there is no opportunity for cross contamination.

We are committed to our ongoing responsibility to Clean Sport. With our products being used by riders across the globe, our customers can be reassured by the high level of certification and measures we take to ensure consistency of quality and reducing the risk of our products containing prohibited substances.

We are always transparent with all our ingredients, both on our labels and online, but if you have any further questions about our supplements, we would be happy to help.

Explaining Cortaflex

Cortaflex®

Cortaflex® includes vital trace elements and precursors (or building blocks) of key compounds such as glycosaminoglycans and proteoglycans which are necessary for the production and maintenance of healthy cartilage and joint fluid, which also plays an important role in shock absorbing and lubrication within the joint.

Amino Acids

Amino acids such as glutamic acid - converted in the horse’s body to provide glutamine, which combines with glucose to form glucosamine – which itself then combines with other compounds to help give cartilage its flexibility and “sponginess”.

Copper, Manganese & Silicon

Are important trace elements which are all needed to help the horse produce his own chondroitin, (another important structural compound in cartilage), collagen and hyaluronic acid.

Collagen

An important compound needed by the chondrocytes to produce the water based matrix of the cartilage. Collagen helps to give cartilage its strength. (We utilize a sustainable and ethical source of marine derived collagen.)

Hyaluronic Acid (HA)

Is a key component of joint fluid, which bathes the joint, and acts and a lubricant and shock absorber.

MSM

More recently, as well as providing these vital building blocks, MSM (methylsulphonylmethane ) has been added to the Cortaflex supplements, to provide a bio-available source of sulphur, which is important in the repair process of the sulphur containing bonds in the cartilage matrix. MSM is also thought to have anti-inflammatory properties.

Boswellia

Cortaflex Super Fenn also contains Boswellia, a plant known for its antiinflammatory properties, to help reduce the on-going destruction of cartilage following micro-trauma and the resulting inflammatory responses arising from harder work.