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at about what time do you start the interval work if you do any?
am i too early or too alte starting it next saturday in time for march?
 
depends how long you are going to be cantering for, whether it's on the flat or on an incline, and how long the intervals are going to be, i think. sorry, not much of an answer! what level are you getting the horse fit for?
oh, depends what speed you're going to be cantering at too!
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I would say you are a little early yet. What level are you competing at? I am going to start for 2* level 4 weeks prior to travelling to the competition and I think even that will be more than enough. She is a fit type and I did give her a canter at Xmas when it dried up and I reckon she is already 3/4 to the level I need.
 
Ditto Boss - nice to know I got something right for once - I'd planned to start interval work 3 weeks before my first event too.
 
Make sure you have a good basics in place plenty of hill work hacking etc. Then it depends on the type of your horse but probably for PN a couple of weeks of canter work (roughly canter every 4 days) so 4 decent pieces of work will be enough. If you have a fit type less or more if a less blood type.
 
thanks, he was been back in full work now for a month and a bit after 2 3 week breaks with the odd hack stuck in the middle.
he is the slower warmblood type
 
I don't do any. They go for a decent hack (about 1 and a half to 2 hours) once a week at the moment, and that'll increase to every four days before they start. On that hack they'll mostly trot and canter. I hate thundering round and round a field for a set amount of minutes, don't think it does anybody any good.
 
Ditto T_E. I think its a complete waste of time. Faster hacking work encourages a younger horse to learn how to canter, settle into a rhythm for a longer perioid, find a second wind and build up stamina. I've never galloped a horse unless its at an event.
 
You do have to be lucky enough to have somewhere to do the faster hacking work! I do agree if you can do it out over natural terrain great but a lot wouldn't be able to.
 
Well I have to say living inside the M25 I've been most surprised to find I have probably the 2nd best hacking I've ever had, only behind what I could do when living on the Longleat estate (but I probably had to do more road work then...)
 
That was about to be my next comment! If I could do fittening work hacking I would, but I have to box just to get to hills, and those are on the road. Working full time it is not practical for me to box to Cirencester Park every 4 days, which is the closest place I could do a really decent hack off road and therefore with lots of trotting and cantering. Plus even in March by the time I get to the yard after work it is too dark to hack safely. So my work gets done round and round and round the 20x60.

Or at least it will - never bothered before as TBH I think as long as you uise the first few runs as fittening runs and your horse has done a decent amount of work before hand it shouldn't need interval training to do up to PN, and when I went N last year then the PNs were the fittening work if that makes sense.
 
have council estate one side of me, and common the other... except someone on a yard the other side of the common rode a horse out from a yard that had strangles on it... and the horse ridden out on the common developed strangles 48 hours later so I can't do any hacking at the mo... its awful
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but the hacking here is impossible... like i said choice between council estate (where chavvy 12 year olds are sat around drinking strongbow, then throw the bottles at you to be sociable because you aren't "making hte horse run faster" for their entertainment
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) or boggy common which is impossible when its this wet
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please can someone hurry up and buy my house so I can move to somewhere with decent hacking???

*rant over!*
 
TBH I'm not sure I did! It's just my nearest 'big hacking' venue which the owners are happy for us to use if we ring and ask apparently! In that case as everyone I know who I'd want to hack with have wussy dressage horses that don't do fast work (bit of an exaggeration) then if I came up one weekend would you show me where to go?
 
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I don't do any. They go for a decent hack (about 1 and a half to 2 hours) once a week at the moment, and that'll increase to every four days before they start. On that hack they'll mostly trot and canter. I hate thundering round and round a field for a set amount of minutes, don't think it does anybody any good.

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Well, you're very lucky to have the hacking around you to be able to do that.
Those of us without decent hacking have to use other methods.
 
Oh yes S_C, do come over sometime before the season. We can take advantage of the ten mile 'Broadride' avenue!! Having spent the last 5 years there, I know the park inside out. You could box up to my yard to save you having to ask permission from the estate about entering.
 
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I have done interval work since I had a 14.2hh! I would not do interval training until a horse was in regular work and I would be very careful when I started inverval training, it can be done so easily just out hacking, even working on a structure of 2 minutes trotting (in a round and forward shape) followed by two mins walking on a looser rein, repeat several times over half an hour etc.

I think it all depends on what you are aiming for, when, and if there is any reason why a horse needs it, eg has been off work, on holiday etc.

I did interval training with my dressage horse too, it made him really nicely muscled and fit.

I am really lucky, we are in the New Forest, so have tracks, fairly good going, little hills etc to use, I agree with others that I wouldn't want to thunder around a field, I would probably try to get to all weather gallops or something.

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