emfen1305
Well-Known Member
So after getting the all clear from the vets in November to "crack on" after our navicular diagnosis and rehab period, I have subsequently spent 2 months making a number of excuses to not ride and only do ground work. "looks a bit drizzly/windy/cold/sunny/Jupiter is crossing in front of Saturn and the vibes aren't right" which reads "I am too scared to get back on my own horse! Sick of watching everyone else go out and have fun and spurred on by the the Equestrian Training Diary for Christmas and have been filling it all out, I have booked back in with my instructor for weekly lessons and vowed I would start riding more consistently!
Ideally I would just hack which I have been doing but I can only do that at weekends so want to add a couple of schooling sessions in the week plus my lesson but I don't want to take advantage of his good nature and him feeling well. What has everyone else done when bringing a horse back into school work? How long and what type of work? Today I just did around 20 minutes, mainly walking, transitions, no small circles and then some trot including big circles and transitions. I don't know whether I am babying him a little bit but I don't want to do too much with him too soon so looking for some ideas of length and type of work you would all do!
He's not been totally left alone, i've been doing groundwork and walking him out at weekends but he's not been properly schooled since the end of September!
Ideally I would just hack which I have been doing but I can only do that at weekends so want to add a couple of schooling sessions in the week plus my lesson but I don't want to take advantage of his good nature and him feeling well. What has everyone else done when bringing a horse back into school work? How long and what type of work? Today I just did around 20 minutes, mainly walking, transitions, no small circles and then some trot including big circles and transitions. I don't know whether I am babying him a little bit but I don't want to do too much with him too soon so looking for some ideas of length and type of work you would all do!
He's not been totally left alone, i've been doing groundwork and walking him out at weekends but he's not been properly schooled since the end of September!