With the lucrative Autumn Racing Carnival looming at Sydney’s Royal Randwick, Altitude Services have been hard at it tweaking and refining the twin altitude stalls at John Thompson’s racing stables. With targeted races happening in early to mid April the 5-6 week lead in for John’s fancied runners is almost ideal.

Be sure to keep you eye on John Thompson trained runners during the Autumn Racing Carnival!

Sea level air is 20.9% oxygen, by dropping the 02 levels to 18% John’s horses start their altitude adaptation program at the equivalent of 1250m, over the next 3-4 weeks the 02 levels will drop progressively down to 14% 02 which is equivalent to about 3200m of altitude exposure.

John Thompson Racing Stables and Altitude Services – on the cutting edge of performance technology in the horse racing industry.

One of John’s horses gets acquainted with his new, air-conditioned, air-filtered altitude stall.

John’s stable staff help place the horses into the twin altitude stables.

The doors are closed and the horses have their first night at 1250m of altitude simulation before heading out to train normally the next morning.

Kilmore, Victoria is the site of Altitude Services latest project, our biggest to date. At this expansive pre-training facility some 100 kilometres from Melbourne Altitude Services is retrofitting an old serving barn to establish ten individual altitude stalls.

“Many of our horses are spelled and pre-trained from here” commented Michael Trotter facility manager. “By pre-acclimatizing the horses to high altitude here we’re able to send them to our trainers in tip top condition to start their racing campaigns. A number of our trainers around the country have been working with Altitude Services and have installed on course altitude stalls to sustain the altitude effect once the horses get to Melbourne, Sydney or Adelaide. We’re confident that by putting this infrastructure in place we’ll be well ahead of the game come the Spring Carnival this year.”

The latest, state-of-the-art hypoxic generator is unloaded at Kilmore.

The hypoxic generator is craned into place.

“The Kilmore property is the biggest project we’ve undertaken to date. We recently completed a similar retrofit in Sydney using refrigeration panels for two pre-existing stalls, but moving to a ten horse facility has been a real challenge. We’ve opted for the latest hypoxic technology from our European offices which will dramatically reduce the power requirements needed to run this system. Also, our Kilmore client wishes to have a scalable system in place so that we can potentially take this to an 18 horse facility in the future. The new technology we’ve adopted here allows us to do this with only minimal infrastructure updates, keeping costs to a minimum” commented Altitude Services General Manager, Rod Cedaro.

With more equine and human facilities earmarked for development during 2015, Altitude Services is looking forward to an exciting future.

An airlock for the entrance to the altitude barn.	Outside the 10 horse barn – Altitude Services biggest equine project to date.
Retrofitting and sealing the barn’s interior with refrigeration panels.	The hypoxic generator and reserve tanks are positioned for final fit-off.

Ultra Group of Companies principal, Sean Buckley and Altitude Services General Manager, Rod Cedaro were recently interviewed by Channel 31 community TV’s Boxing Show to discuss their sponsorship involvement with recently crowned new World Champion, Randy Petalcorin, as well as the benefits of altitude exposure to athletes.

WATCH:

Click here to view the video on the Channel 31 website

Australian champion boxer Susie Ramadan isn’t going to make the same mistake twice!

She fought for a World Title in Mexico City a while back and was beaten. “I couldn’t believe how much I struggled with the altitude. The woman I’m fighting is a local and as such she was well acclimatized to the rarified air” commented Susie.

BOXER IN A BUBBLE – World Title contender, Australia’s Susie Ramadan leaves no stone unturned preparing for her October 25th World Title Fight in Mexico City by sleeping in an altitude tent for three weeks prior to the fight.

“When I got back to Australia I started researching the topic a little further and was reading about how various athletes, who were favourites at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, were beaten, not necessarily by better athletes, but by athletes who were from high altitude areas and used to the environment. This sounded exactly like what had happened to me. I’d heard about how Altitude Services had masterfully steered Randy Petalcorin’s altitude training resulting in a world title, so I decided I too wanted to be guided by the world leaders in altitude simulation” said Susie.

“Susie’s experience isn’t unique. If two athletes are of a similar ability and one lives at altitude and the other doesn’t, the one living at altitude is at a vast advantage the longer the event goes. All we’re doing is helping to level the playing field for Susie. We’re providing a progressive program over a three week period to pre-acclimate her before she arrives in Mexico City a week before the fight. At least this time she’ll be competing on a level playing field” commented Rod Cedaro, General Manager of Altitude Services.

Watch Altitude Services sponsored boxer – Randy “Ultratune” Petalcorin claim his World Title – we’re hoping it is the first of many for Altitude Services sponsored athletes. As a young altitude simulation company our systems have produced Group 1 winning race horses and now a boxing world title holder – not bad in less than 12 months!

Click here to read the Altitude Services article featured in the Gold Coast Bulletin (“High Hopes”, 22/08/2014)

Altitude Services recently showcased its state-of-the-art 6m X 50m altitude pool cover (pictured above) at the Runaway Bay Sports Super Centre on Queensland’s beautiful Gold Coast.

“It was very encouraging” said Altitude Services General Manager, Rod Cedaro. “I presented to about 60 of Queensland’s leading sports administrators and then showed them, and the assembled media, the pool cover. Everyone was so supportive and positive it clearly illustrates the enthusiasm with which this initiative is being welcomed with on the Gold Coast.”

The Gold Coast is scheduled to host the next Commonwealth Games in 2018 and Altitude Services have already well progressed discussions with Super Centre management to construct a luxury 5 star 32 bed altitude hotel at the Centre.

“We’re hoping the pool cover will be just our starting point. With the Pan Pac Swimming Championships currently being conducted on the Gold Coast we’ve already had interest from international swim teams in the technology, we believe that the hotel has incredible potential to attract athletes from all over the world to train on Queensland’s magnificent Gold Coast” commented Cedaro.

Randy, ready to take the next steop!

Professional Boxing is making a rapid move in main land China with the first promotion of Li Sheng Seca Promotions and Edmund YE CHU and Top Rank with there first promotion in Shanghai China on August 26th with a WBA World title fight.

The World Title shorts Randy will wear for his fight in China live on HBO2 and national TV in China.

Showcasing a WBA Light Flyweight World title fight between WBA #2 Randy Ultratune Petalcorin from Yarraville Victoria and Walter Tello from Puerto Armuelles Panama.

Randy ‘Ultratune’ Petalcorin, who has been supported by boxing stalwart, Sean Buckley. Buckley was recently recognized for his outstanding contributions to boxing with an award given to him by world champion, Sam Soliman.

“Ultratune” as he is widely known, is  the current PABA Champion with an impressive record of 21 wins 1 loss 16 KO and at only 22 years of age.

Petalcorin last two boxing bouts have been in Melbourne Australia where he was based and has been using state-of-the-art altitude simulation to help him prepare for competition. Melbourne has been excellent for Randy where he has built up an extensive fan base, where many Aussies look at Randy as a Australia- Filipino boxer.

Good luck Randy – from your friends at Altitude Services!

The team at Altitude Services have been busy refining the latest hypoxic tent covers capable of supplying hypoxic gas to multiple sports and various other applications.

The newly built one lane, 25m Pool Cover

“It’s an exciting time for us” commented general manager Rod Cedaro. “In addition to gearing up for the upcoming Spring Racing Carnival with our new and refurbished hypoxic stalls, Altitude Services is working on a number of hypoxic training facilities throughout Australia with a number of facilities and sports. We’ve built two new pool covers – a one lane 25m (see featured photo above) and two lane 50m cover soon to be installed in Queensland.”

Altitude Services has also commissioned 3m X 5m, 3m X 3m training cubicles as well as double and single bed covers to take advantage of sleeping high and training low.

Altitude Services 5m X 3m training cubicle – ideal for treadmill or stationary bike training for up to 4 athletes simultaneously.

Stay tuned for future updates!