Equiyd X Charles Owen
Equiyd X Charles Owen
When heritage safety meets digital horse welfare
We’re proud to announce that Equiyd has joined the Innovation Hub at Charles Owen, working alongside one of the most established and respected names in equestrian safety.
For over a century, Charles Owen has built its reputation on protection, prevention, and rigorous standards. This partnership brings those same principles into the digital space supporting better horse welfare, clearer decision-making, and a more transparent future for the equestrian industry.
A shared commitment to welfare and responsibility
At Equiyd, everything we build starts with the horse. We believe welfare improves when information is clear, structured, and trusted,not scattered across apps, paper records, or memory.
That philosophy strongly aligns with Charles Owen’s approach to innovation: designing systems that quietly raise standards, support accountability, and put safety first.
As David Lea, Managing Director of Equiyd, explains:
“Equiyd gives every horse a secure digital identity, starting with a completely free horse management platform built to support welfare, performance, and better decision-making.”
This collaboration reflects a shared belief that long-term outcomes improve when care, safety, and insight are built in from the start.
What Equiyd brings to the Innovation Hub
Equiyd delivers a free, horse-centric management platform that helps owners organise and understand information about their horses in one structured system.
With Equiyd, owners get:
- Free lifetime horse management, with no locked core features
- Structured, time-based records for care, health, training, performance, and ownership history
- Horse-owned, owner-controlled data, shared only when and with whom the owner chooses
- Optional intelligent insights that help owners connect the dots, spot patterns, and ask better questions
Equiyd is designed to support real-world horse ownership,from grassroots riders through to professionals, while enabling more transparent, welfare-focused decision-making across the industry.
Intelligence that supports better decisions
Equiyd doesn’t just store information, it helps owners make sense of it.
Through optional AI-powered guidance, Equiyd supports everyday decision-making by highlighting trends, changes, and areas worth attention, always using the data owners already record. The aim is not to replace professional advice or experience, but to support better conversations and more informed choices.
This practical, welfare-first approach to innovation closely reflects Charles Owen’s own history of applying research and evidence to improve real-world outcomes.
Why Equiyd fits the Charles Owen Innovation Hub
From Charles Owen’s perspective, the partnership represents a natural evolution of what safety and innovation mean in a modern equestrian context.
As Dave Derby, CEO of Charles Owen, explains:
“While Equiyd is not a physical product, it perfectly encapsulates what the Innovation Hub stands for, innovation created by equestrians, for equestrians, that benefits both horse and rider. It represents the future of the digital equestrian sector.”
By combining heritage expertise with modern digital tools, the partnership creates space to explore how welfare, safety, and data can work together more effectively.
Looking ahead
As part of the Innovation Hub, Equiyd will continue developing tools that help owners securely share information with trusted professionals, including vets, farriers, trainers, and yards ,while keeping control firmly with the owner and the horse at the centre.
This collaboration is an important step toward a more connected, responsible, and welfare-led equestrian ecosystem.