As the rain lashes down upon a rustic old dairy farm in deepest Gloucestershire, the sound of water can be heard inside its four walls.
A half-ton thoroughbred is splashing its way along a water treadmill, at the county's exclusive spa for racehorses.
Former top jockey Jason Maguire is watching his every move, as one wrong step could lead to a costly setback.
"The horse is called Get In The Queue and he's unbeaten in three races," he explains.
"He picked up a tendon injury in his last run so he's with us for rehab in the spa.
"He feels really good now and we hope he will be back on the racecourse soon."
A horse spa might sound like a luxurious treat for these majestic animals, but it is a serious business.
Get In The Queue's owners Paul and Clare Rooney have downsized their team of National Hunt horses and kept only the best- so they are eager for Noel Fehily's final career winner to thrive.
Injuries are part and parcel of the sport- and something their racing manager Maguire unfortunately knows too well.
On the eve of the 2014 Cheltenham Festival, he went from fine tuning his preparation to lying in a hospital bed in an induced coma.
To this day he feels lucky to have survived the fall at Stratford.
"All of a sudden you go from thinking about a good book of rides at Cheltenham to being in intensive care for several weeks," Maguire said.
"The horse stepped at the hurdle, I went over his head and got a kicking. I was on the floor and couldn't get my breath.
"Nine times out of ten if you get morphine you are away but this was different.
"It was a blessing I didn't have any, as I had internal bleeding so it might have poisoned me.
"An air ambulance was there for another jockey who had a fall in the previous race.
"I was lucky it came out for him, otherwise I might have died."
Maguire gestures with his hands to show how the surgeon opened up the length of his torso on the operating table, acting swiftly to stem the bleeding.
The serious injuries, which included a fractured sternum, six broken ribs and a lacerated liver, forced him out of action for six months.
He had to have two more operations on a disc in his back, a problem that would irritatingly persist.
"I came back for season," he said.
"I had to have a driver as my back was so bad. I would lie down on the back seat of the car, take painkillers. My right leg would go numb and I would get sciatica.
"It was awful really. I just couldn't go on riding the way I was. It was disappointing, as I was second to AP in the jockeys' championship.
"But I thought if I couldn't do it properly there was no point carrying on.
"I enjoyed my career immensely."
Maguire reluctantly quit in 2016 and by that time he was putting the wheels in motion for his new business at Ivy Lodge Farm.
With their stables, vast acreage of land and the spa, which started to take off last year, Jason and his wife Lauren can have 27 equine guests at any one time.
Festival favourites Vinndication and Imperial Aura are just two that have benefited from the alternative regime, as have horses trained by Fergal O'Brien and Harry Fry.
"After my injuries, I can relate to what the horses are doing here," Maguire says.
"When I broke my ankle and leg I did a lot of swimming and rehab, I tried to build core strength.
"The way the horses walk in the water and the height of it is good conditioning work for them.
"Vinndication did a huge amount on the water treadmill and the controlled exercise strengthened him up before he won at Ascot this season.
"Imperial Aura has had problems with his shins and our facilities helped them settle down.
"The horses use the treadmill and spa and get turned out for a few hours. It's like a holiday home for them.
"It's good for them to get away from the hustle and bustle of a big training yard, to relax and chill out."
One regular customer, The Worlds End, was a fine advertisement for the Birdlip base, when he won the Grade One Long Walk Hurdle before Christmas.
A nine-year-old with training niggles throughout his career, he visits twice a week to use both the spa and water treadmill machines.
Into his fifth year with local trainer Tom George, he is now rated higher than ever before.
"He has been a great story for us," Maguire says.
"He's quite a hard horses to keep sound and he seems a lot stronger this year.
"The treadmill is similar to the resistance from a swimming pool for humans and the spa is like us sitting in a cold jacuzzi.
"We have not been doing this long and it was a big investment.
"I have been delighted to see horses feel the benefit so quickly."
