How to better understand your horse with Garmin Blaze

February 26, 2026
You want to view your horse’s metrics in real time, track their stride and monitor how they recover. You need a piece of gear that can do all that — and more.
That’s where the Blaze™ equine wellness system comes in. This tail wrap and sensor is designed for riders, horse owners and trainers who want as much information as possible about their horse.
Designed for horses
The Blaze equine wellness system features an advanced equine optical heart rate monitor that provides data under motion and environmental conditions. It includes a durable and washable neoprene wrap with hook-and-loop straps for efficient fastening. That wrap holds the lightweight sensor to the underside of your horse’s tail.
How does Blaze work?
With Blaze you’ll get insights into your horse’s health and fitness, so you can make more informed choices about their well-being and training. Easily access those insights with the Blaze smartphone app to stay on top of your horse’s wellness, or view data on your wrist with a compatible Garmin smartwatch (requires a connection with Bluetooth® technology).
All you need to do is attach the tail wrap — no special skin preparation required — and add your horse’s details to the Blaze app. Set up multiple profiles to track your herd and get real-time stats for each horse, including heart rate, strides, gait, distance and more1.
Simply select one of four activity types — outdoor training, indoor training, recovery and transport — and get started. See stats on your compatible Garmin smartwatch when using the Blaze app from the Garmin Connect IQ™ Store.
That data is organized into the three following categories:
- Biometrics: heart rate, skin temperature change and heat score
- Kinetics: stride and gait, speed, distance, location and weather
- Recovery: time and heart rate
Need your trainer to watch as you ride? Broadcast your horse’s data through live training data, viewable in the mobile app. When you’re not training, you can view all your activity history and analyze training details through fully interactive charts and customizable views in the mobile app.
How does Blaze benefit your horse?
With Blaze, you’ll get all the insights into your horse’s training, fitness and performance you need.
For example, the skin temperature metric shows you how your horse’s average skin temperature changes. Activity, environment, potential illness and more can all be related to your horse’s skin temperature. This feature helps you stay on top of your horse’s health.
Wondering if the weather is too hot for a ride? With heat score, you won’t have to question it. This feature provides the combined total for the current air temperature and humidity and based on that total will guide you on whether to ride at that time.
Plus, Blaze features up to 25 hours of battery life — so you can get data from every ride.
You’ve been looking for a way to easily track your horse’s health and fitness. Unlock these metrics today with the Garmin Blaze equine wellness system.
1Accuracy of estimations can vary due to multiple factors, such as fit, physical characteristics and intensity of activity
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