How often do you ride your horse, how long for and what type of work?

5-6 times a week - try to do a mixture of schooling,hacking,jumping and lunging. Normally do 1 hr schooling,45 mins jumping ,20 mins lunging and 1hr 15 mins hacking mixed up throughout the week. Depends when I can get in the school as he is on livery at a riding school so they take priority.
 
5--7 times/week, 1--2 hours/day. Mixture of schooling and hacking and jumping.

A typical day might be: hack to riding school (we don't have a proper school at the yard)(10 mins), school (45 mins), hack home a scenic route (45 mins).

Or: school in field at home (30 mins), practise our wee little Xs (20 mins)
 
Only do that much as horse tends to self destruct and reach for the vet manual other wise
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Not enough
Not long enough
Pointless schooling, but more hacking. I got so bored by schooling the other day I wrote my horses name out in hoofprints across the school
 
5/6 times a week including a show.

Schooling (Around 2/3 times per week) - No more than about 35 mins. Usually around 25 as I like to work on one thing and not overcook the work.

Jumping (No more than twice a week inc. show) - Depends on horse but unless its a lesson don't tend to jump for more than about 20 mins.

Hacking (Usually 1/2 per week).

Lunging - Started lunging Blu once a week now, but is sometimes replaced with a hack.
 
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5-6 times a week - try to do a mixture of schooling,hacking,jumping and lunging. Normally do 1 hr schooling,45 mins jumping ,20 mins lunging and 1hr 15 mins hacking mixed up throughout the week.

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Same, except I don't lunge.
 
On 6 days they do a 50 - 75 min hack with walk and a small amount of trot. As well as a 45 min schooling session - mainly flatwork and jumping once a week.

On the other day they normally compete or have the day off - they rarely have days off as they can get very full of themselves afterwards!
 
I probably only ride 5 times a week

I'm in the school 3 times a week -
1 schooling
1 jumping
1 lunge, games or school
and then one one day I go round the tracks and on the other I go for hack
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the 6 year old competing gets worked everyday.
she has a day off if the weather is really bad or if shes had her teeth/back done, or if we have done a very intense session
i do a mixture of things
pole work/jumps for 30-40mins 0-2x week
flatwork at novice level for 40-50mins 3-5xweek
hacking (could be road walking or canterwork) out for 20mins to 2 hours- 0-3x week.
compete on average every fortnight.
when i get my own box i want to take her to the local beach 1-2x a fortnight for a blast.

the 19year old who is semi retired-
light schooling-mostly in walk and trot- 30-40mins 1-3x week
hacking out for 20mins to 2hours- 0-2x week.
 
anywhere from half hour to an hour (or more!)
7 days a week.
Schooling flat
Schooling over fences
Lunging pessoa/or overfences
Hacking (walk and trot only)

Try and keep it as varied as poss but he is IMPOSSIBLE with a day off and HAS to work... bloody animal... heres hoping the baby horse wont adopt the same philosiphy!
 
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Not long enough
Pointless schooling, but more hacking. I got so bored by schooling the other day I wrote my horses name out in hoofprints across the school

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PMSL DD that made me LOL
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Six days a week at least (quite often I forget he hasnt had a day off for a while
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Mixture of hacking (45 mins usually), flatwork (45 mins - 1 hour) and jumping (30 - 45 mins)

I hardly ever lunge, no idea why, I just seem to forget to do it
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But my new instructor said last night that I should be doing canter poles every day, plus incorporating small jumps, so will have that to look forward to now
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5-6 times a week

I try and hack twice for anyhting from 40 mins to 2 hours
School 2/3 times for no longer than 30 mins
jump once

With a young one or weak one i also lunge once or twice for 20 mins in a pessoa
 
6 times a week in school holidays - a mixture of the foloowing mixed up throughout the week

2x schooling (45mins)
1x jumping (45mins)
3x hacking (1-1.5 hours)

Only manage 4 times a week during school, and so i hack 2 times, school once and jump once...on the 5th day they usually go on the walker or my mum exercises them for me xxx
 
Currently 4 days a week as he is fit enough to do what i want him 2 do.

3 days 1 1/5 hours schooling
1 days hacking (usually 2 hours)

Dont generally jump at home unless he hasnt been out for a few weeks..for example he wont have jumped since Eglinton and wont jump before Auchenlick on sat!
 
i try to ride at least 4 times a week what i do and for how long depends on how my horse feels and how i feel but generally if i'm hacking it'll be 45 mins-1hr but alot of hill work and if i'm schooling 30-45 mins but focused no piddling around. one horse i don't jump much at home only if i feel like it and the other one has to jump more regularly so i try to jump him once or twice a week and always before a show. mine are both fit enough for what they're doing.
 
At the moments it's 4 times a week in the pessoa or 3 times pessoa and once lunging sometimes over a little jump. This is because my GP saddle doesn't fit so hacking is off the menu for a couple of weeks as I don't want to hack in my dressage saddle (personal preference don't want to risk scratching it and it's not great for fast hacks)
If I had my GP then I would be hacking 3-4 times a week and maybe schooling once. Hacking is mixed walk, lots of trotting, cantering and popping logs. I try and get lessons every 2-4 weeks but not had one in 6 weeks
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I'd like to be jumping in the field but again lack of GP means that's tricky.
 
When he's in work my horse is worked 5 times a week.

I school twice for 45 minutes each, hack twice for 45 minutes to two hours a time and either go to a show, lunge for 30 minutes (half of which is spent trying to persuede horse to lunge) or hack for a third time.
 
With my 6y/o I usually ride 6 days a week.
Usually as follows...
3 days a week schooling for (1hour+)
2 days a week hacking in the woods/around the village (40mins-1.5hour)
1 day a week walking/trotting/cantering around the big field
 
He's not in work at the moment, but when he is, 4-5 times a week. That's usually two hacks, then school work/pole work and one jumping session. Unless I'm hacking I'm usually only in the school for 30 mins tops. We usually hack for 1-2 hours, mostly trot and canter.
 
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