With a bit of imagination, exercises involving poles on the ground can be good fun for horses and for riders. They don’t just put the horse’s body through its paces, but also their brain, and so ...

Veterinary physiotherapist Hayley Marsh offers three effective but simple pole exercises for horses done under saddle or in-hand to strengthen their core.

Caroline Moore, former five-star eventer and British Eventing national under-18 coach and junior team coach, explains how you can use this exercise to develop your horse’s hoof/brain co-ordination ...

A knocked pole also means knocked points for a horse and rider duo in the pole bending event of the State 4-H Horse Exposition, but the pair can still take ...