How often do you gallop your horse?

Just in the show ring for my lot. But they can shift!

I gallop 2-3days a week at work and the other 2-3days are a decent canter. My lads don't miss it. If anything they are lazy toads now they are fat show horses and not racehorses.
 
Not as often as I should considering I have begin eventing my mare (only BE 80). I don't fitness-wise purely because I have nowhere to do it safely - my field that I ride in isnt big enough for a proper gallop (and destroys the field) and out hacking there isn't really anywhere I'd be happy to do it (tracks but they only have a grass strip up the centre). I only gallop in the Autumn when I get to go for blasts round the stubble fields! For my mare, I think it would blow her mind to do it too often anyway. She seems more than happy to save her blasts on the XC course ;)
 
At my last yard in Surrey I was lucky enough to have free access to a sand gallop so used to go at least once a week. I did as much fittening/fast work with him as possible as he got fat on thin air and needed a lot of work to keep his weight under control.
 
Mines never galloped under saddle, but hes not quite 6yr old and has never really gotten going until the last couple of months. Hes now fit enough to be starting to canter under saddle, and I have definite plans to go for a gallop soon! Not sure I consider it necessary, but then hes a HW cob and I would only do it on good ground which is a rare thing in the UK!
 
I would never gallop my pointers past three quarter pace in training . In my old age I never gallop my Irish draught. (mostly to save him the embarrassment of being overtaken by 13.2 ponies.
 
If the grounds ok then I normally have one or two faster short bursts out hacking on the weekends, as well as normal canters throughout, - but tbh it's more of an extended canter than a true gallop as it's still 3 time. We haven't really got galloping still - our legs just go faster and longer in canter! We might get it one day but I'm not pushing him on the fast work. He turns 6 this month and I didn't feel he was physically ready for much fast fast work last year. We kept a nice open canter round our hunter trials etc and still qualified for the Horseware finals last year so I'm happy with that. I knew we wouldn't be anywhere near mature or fast enough to be anywhere near top 50 realistically at the actual finals [103 in our class!] so we just had a nice clear round. We didn't place too far away from that target so I was more than happy with that!

Built for style and comfort, not speed ha! He can maintain a steady balanced canter all day long which is more impotrant to me :)
 
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I haven't galloped my boy for over 4 years and that was on the beach. He used to love a trip there every so often, and since it was a dog/horse friendly beach year round, we could go whenever.

It was just good fun, a change from the regular routine and used to blow away the cobwebs.

And then he damaged his tendon (not beach-related) so haven't galloped since. I'm ok to allow him gentle canters on ok footing as he's sound now, but I'm not sure I'd be happy going flat out. He's an accident prone little so and so, so I don't fancy pushing my luck!
 
Managed to get a short gallop up what's known by the yard as 'Treasure Hunt'. Quite short but steep.

Poor Sam ran out of puff 3/4 way up as his fitness level is less than it should be due to too many slow hacks because of the ground. Some definite fitness work in order me-thinks LOL
 
Rarely, only when we get to visit a beach and Mr.Horse is fit enough. We don't have appropriate stretches of woodland roads for galloping where we're at now.
 
LJR said:
We include a gallop once or twice a week a the end of the horses fast work/interval training - probably not flat out, maybe 3/4 speed.

It never whizzes them up, wish it would :)
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A gallop is a gallop. What is a 3/4 speed gallop? A Quallop?
 
Princess16 said:
Gallop what's that LOL - as a new rider I'm struggling with canter :D
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Gallop...What's that says my boy?
Having to exert yourself..... No thanks says he!

Probably 3-4 times a year we "GALLOP" as he has a problem with exerting himself l and a problem keeping his rear end on the ground when we go for a yeeha with others!
 
Not often enough :) We've not hit top speed for a while as it's been faaaaar too wet but we've a few long, straight stretches that we can have a steady one on most of the year. Last one was probably a few weeks ago when the ground was a bit better than it is at the moment. In Summer I'd imagine we'll go for a gallop at least once a week cos it's fun and it gets him thinking a bit more forward. My prev horse used to get a bit silly if he hadn't had a speed fix for a few weeks bless him (had plenty of space to do it in the field I might add, as has current horse!)
 
Never 😟 We have absolutely no where to do this. Now have our own transport though so I feel a trip to the gallops is on the cards this summer
 
Rarely! Probably only galloped a handful of times in my life and they have all been over the last 18-20 months on my little cob mare. We canter regularly out hacking, but she only flat out gallops when in company.... words can't describe it - it's terrifying and exhilarating, my absolute definition of living life, but also bloody scary on an uneven bridleway when you realise you have zero control and she is putting her head down and proper going for it!
 
I am suprised by this thread have to say, I assumed as its just another pace of the horse everyone does it regularly like trot or canter. Reading this thread though that seems not to be the case. I consider my off road riding to be rubbish but maybe im more lucky than i thought? I can always can find somewhere to have a gallop,prefer inclines /a nice big hill
 
On the odd occasion he gets the better of me on our hack- he properly bombs up the track back home which is a pain when I'm trying to cool him down (I make him walk up and let him canter at the top when able to stop him!).

Bit of a pain, but his owner's daughter used to purposely ride him around the block to gallop up for nearly 15 years so it's ingrained into him I think!
 
Maybe once a week or so? We're very lucky to live within hacking distance to the beach so we go quite often, going with a couple of others from the yard for a good gallop along the beach always wakes him up! I like to be a regular thing though so its not a big deal to pony.
 
At least weekly currently. He is very laid back and I am hoping to event this year. Working hard on his fitness and trying to teach him that he doesn't need to go everywhere in his rocking horse canter and find the buttons for up a gear.
 
Pretty much every ride. One is a backwards show Welsh cob and he goes much better once you've got him motoring (plus in the ring it's his best pace) and my other is currently on a fitness campaign for a galloping/burst energy sport! We're not talking about going up the gallops here, just getting the transition either within a school or out hacking but our gallop runs are only a few 100m long.
 
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