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Canada’s Thoroughbred Racing Newspaper
Although her grandfather owned racehorses in Jamaica, Kim and her sister Diane weren’t allowed to go to the racetrack being told that, “it wasn’t the place for young girls”.
The Game, May 2008 5 about her transition back to the racetrack, “A friend
R Ce a d y t o T e a c h
gave me a book with the title ‘you can do anything you want, if you know what you want to do’ or something like that.” laughs Kim.
ontrary to her effervescent personality, Kim
Allaby is very serious when it comes to her goal of “making horses feel better”. Her bubbly and lively demeanor becomes focused and determined when talking about the many bene ts of her trade in Equine Sports Massage Therapy.
Her rst visit to a racetrack was in Canada.
It was around that time that Kim’s hunter/jumper horse was beginning to show some attitude problems and refusing fences and general commands.
“Don’t wait until the horse is sore before calling a massage therapist.” says Kim offering her advice, “The object is to try to get to the problem before they get sore.”
exercising horses at the racetrack and brought Kim to the races at Woodbine. “I didn’t realize that people exercised the horses.” says Kim with a look of awakening, “Yvonne was an exercise rider and I didn’t know you could make a living with the horses.”
Kim was completing her high school education at a boarding school in Canada in the 1970’s where she met Yvonne Schawbe. At the time Yvonne was
“The advise I got was, ‘use bigger spurs’, ‘use a whip’, ‘push the horse through the problem’ and then she started to go lame.” explained Kim who said
in the end it was a massage therapist who resolved the problem, “He said that it was my saddle that
was making her hind end and back sore and ex- plained what was happening with the muscles and why. After two months of treatment we were back showing without any trouble. That experience taught me that there was more to dealing with horses than the accepted methods.”
In a sport where every stride counts, getting the optimal movement out of your horse can make all the difference, “When the muscles are tight, every stride can be short by inches.” explains Kim, “Those inches add up in a race and if you can squeeze that last bit of movement out, it will mean the difference between a nose and a length at the wire.”
That’s how Kim’s career with race- horses started.
Filled with enthusiasm, Kim returned to Jamaica and sought out employment at the racetrack. She was offered a job at the jockey’s training school.
Continued Page 7 - See Kim Allaby
Contact Nancy Berman for more information 416-994-6940
Kim is a Certi ed Massage Therapist and has been operating her own successful practice, Soothing Hands Equine Sports Massage, for more than 10 years now.
track. I got hooked.” says Kim.
Her father passed away a couple of years
Born in Jamaica to a Canadian mother and a Jamaican father, Kim is no stranger to horses. Her mother, Sylvia, used to bring Kim to a riding stable where she was lead around on horses at the tender age of 2.
Eventually Kim and her family moved to Canada in 1992 and she joined forces with her mother in a franchise in publishing The Real Estate Book magazine.
Kim Allaby at Woodbine
“I had played polo, I had jumped and ridden show horses, then I got to see how it felt to get on a racehorse at the race-
later and Kim was forced to leave the race- track to nd higher paying employment.
“After ve years I realized I was not living my passion,” says Kim
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