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 ...

Ground pole exercises are one of my absolute favorite and most used training tools. I use them in one way or another in nearly every ride I put on a horse (and we even use them during sales prep ...

Eventer Kate Honey’s favourite polework exercises. Kate, who is another five-star event rider, shares a couple of her favourite pole exercises for horses to improve both horse and rider:. Poles ...

Exercise one – raised walk poles. Place five trotting poles on the ground approximately 80cm-1m apart depending on the size of your horse, raising alternate ends off the ground with a block.