distance between trotting/cantering poles???

[Mel1]

I can never remember how many human strides to put between trotting or cantering poles,
I would also like to know how you would adjust this distance to practice collecting and lengthening the strides on the horse (we're talking about for horses about 15.3, one of them has very short strides and the other is quite the opposite)
Thank you

 

[megwan1]

for my 15.3 average stride i would say, i put 3of my strides between each canter pole and for trotting i would just wack a pole in the middle of 2 canter poles but normally i just set up canter poles. dont know bout shortening or lengthening as i'm lazy and have managed ot get a pony who sorts that out for me

 

[Chico Mio]

For my 15,2 I use four heel to toe steps (size five feet) for normal and canter poles have three strides. No idea about altering the distances though.

Found this - there are distances bottom right of page

http://www.equestrianandhorse.com/training/pole_work.html