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 ...

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 ...

Trotting poles: exercise one. Place three poles on the ground 4’6” apart and trot over them while standing up in your stirrups. Develop the exercise by raising one end of each pole before ...

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.