How many school in your field?

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And do you do this all year round? Also any exercises that I can do with the boy in walk that isn't going to strain a recovering tendon injury. He is up to thirty mins hacking on road (walk only) but sometimes it just isn't practical so need to use field. I rode him in the field last night night and did changes of rein and walk to halt transitions with him xx
 
My daughter schools in the field for most of the year, as we don't have our own school. She can't school there when it gets really wet though.

Something you could do in walk to make the session less boring would be to take two markers a fair way apart, say two trees or fence posts, and count the strides you take in walk between the two. See if you can get a consistent pace with the same amount of strides to start, and then see if can vary the stride a little, slightly shortening so more strides between the markers, or lengthening, so fewer strides between the markers.
 
Me!

Well I don't really school per-say but I do ride :p

And we just utilise puddles as practise for x country :p

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I'm also just walking at the minute, try leg yeilding, serpintines, shoulder in, spiraling circles, dressage test obv just dont change the pace, turns on the forehand.
 
Most the time yes, but it's not a grazing field so stays nice all year round, just 5 acres of flat field for schooling and showjumping. Drains well most the time.

Do have an indoor school, but rarely use it tbh! If it's p'ing it down I will, but all our horses are big moving fellas and the school just shuts them down too much.
 
yes i do... as of today :D much prefer it as im only walking/trotting.... making the most of it before the weather turns nasty so i can use it .
 
Yes I always have, never had the luxury of a school but do have the luxury of having enough grazing that drains realy well & is flat to school in.

I don't however put jumps out in the middle of the field always out from the edge so it doesn't churn up the grazing to much. & If it is really persisting it down I don't risk it, worried about them slipping over more than anything.
 
Repect goes all to all of you that school in fields :p I couldn't do it with my OCD of things being clean... I don't even like the sand in the school on everything let alone mud :o
 
I school in my field all the time, got a bit sectioned off, but we do graze the horses on it aswell, I won't school in there if its rained alot though, I'll just school out on a hack.
 
i school in my field but when it gets muddy i tend to school on hacks. we have a bridleway straight out the back of the hous and the paths are wide enough for ten metre circles and leg yeilding and turn on the forhands. i like to remind my mare she is posher then me happy hacking her.

we do go back to a livery yard/riding school in the winter (which aprently is going to be sooner then i hoped, thanks wheather). i then have the luxuary of a indoor school,60/40 and a outdoor school 80,40. as well as cross country and hacking so altho winter sucks it is nice to be under cover.
 
I school in the field! We sectioned a 60x20 (ish) arena off so it never gets grazed (unless I'm desperate!) and is on a slight slope so it drains fairly well. It is quite slippy at the moment so have to be careful but am hoping to manage throughout the winter. Prior to this my girl had done both front tendons (not from schooling in the field as we were on an all singing and dancing livery yard at the time!) so I think she's holding up pretty well all things considered! :D
 
lol it's 60x20 I think! Long side's fine, but the short sides are just that...too short!

8 acre's much more fun to flash across ;) :p [It's actually 5 acres....but used to be 8. Hence the old name which has stuck lol]
 
Yep, always have done. Dont have the luxury of a school. I dont hack either after too many incidents with past ponies. Its a real pain as the weather dictates what work and how much I can do. I usually give up during the worst of the winter though as the ground is normally frozen solid - my horse will be off work end of October until beginning of Feb, which gives him a nice holiday anyway.
 
MagicMelon said:
Yep, always have done. Dont have the luxury of a school. I dont hack either after too many incidents with past ponies. Its a real pain as the weather dictates what work and how much I can do. I usually give up during the worst of the winter though as the ground is normally frozen solid - my horse will be off work end of October until beginning of Feb, which gives him a nice holiday anyway.
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icould not live with this i love riding far to much
 
This winter will be the first at our new house. No arena, no stables (hopefuly up by xmas) and heavy clay land, half of which has been reseeded so out of bounds until spring. We have a school marked out in one of the fields which has been ok until the recent heavy rain.

We will probably just be weekend hacking from now on, with some schooling if we get a prolonged dry spell. Am currently looking for a local instructor with an all weather so we can try and get a regular lesson in during the winter.
 
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