CREK Scoring System

With so many horses available for sale online today, we aim to improve the way people buy horses sight-unseen. While we always welcome client-paid pre-purchase examinations with the vet of their choice, our goal is to share as much information as we know about a horse in full transparency. Horses in our program graduate upon successful demonstration across time of foundational principles so they thrive with their new human partners no matter what direction they go. Dr. Laura Pettler, Forensic Criminologist and inventor of the Murder Room Method for solving staged murders, has now invented the CR Equine Scoring Method (CRESM).

CRESM is based on science. That means the method and its results are replicable by other people should they want to use this method. Like the Murder Room, CRESM is a mixed-methods research based approach, both quantitative and qualitative grounded by validity and reliability, the two ethical pillars of empirical research. CRESM is a six-stage method that uses Bloom’s Taxonomy as its operating system or in research what’s called theoretical framework.

When a horse arrives at CREK, the horse is examined by our veterinarian Dr. Daniel Fordham. Dr. Fordham administers vaccines and floats their teeth. Our farrier Chris Philmon trims their hooves and CREK Staff administers dewormer. In some cases, CREK Staff body clips upon arrival and administers all treatments designated by the veterinarian. We call this