Horse exercises

Build your own mounting block

This is the most complicated transition pattern of our 4-week series. Take it to your barn this weekend!

These exercises involving poles will help improve your control and accuracy, as well as finessing your horse's paces

Each kind of serpentine is of immense value in training, whether they are executed in S-shaped loops or more straight. This set up promotes correct riding of even circles on both hands. Riding over the angled poles or the V-shape also helps with assessing distances.

There are a number of different ways to assess and evaluate a horse’s conformation. One of these ways is by their topline. If you are new to the equestrian world, you may be wondering exactly what a topline is?

**CAVALLETTI WITH 4 POLES** I know that dreaded feeling of pulling out 15 poles on a cold dark night only to ride for 30 mins to have to drag them all back away again!! So I have created my favourite Top 8 exercises to work on and ONLY 4 POLES are required!!!! Nice and quick and easy! Work on 1 exercise per week- meaning you have 8 weeks of different layouts!!

There is an undeniable elegance in hunt seat riding. Despite the inherent risks involved with jumping a horse, it’s aesthetically beautiful: horse and human taking flight together. But let’s be honest. Posers who are merely propped up on their hunter or jumper won’t get far in this discipline. To be a safe and successful—never […]