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....the weather is rubbish! my school has been flooded off and on for the last I dont know how many months, and I have a 3 horses to keep in training. One endurance prospect, one 4 year old that is supposed to be starting his dressage career and a 3 year old that needs starting!

Has any of it transpired this year! no!

So I have decided to ******* and go hacking!!!! :D

My endurance horse is starting his first season and is doing awesome and I hope to get him out to competitive rides soon, but i've now given up about worrying about my 4 year olds schooling and taking him to endurance pleasure rides too. If I cant train in dressage due to soggyness then off into the wilderness we shall canter!!

Slightly pointless thread but rain shall not stop play :D we shall just change tactic :D

(but I have bought a book on schooling while hacking just so he keeps his hoof in)
 
Hacking is probably the best thing you can do with your endurance horse and your dressage horse.

There is a yard down the road from me
and they never hack anything, just concentrate on schooling, their horses of course are crap, lol.
 
It makes my horses much bolder and braver if they are hacked from an early age and regularly.

I was trying a different approach with my homebred youngster with increased focus on dressage to mold him into a super star as he has potential but i'm taking the pressure off myself again and just having fun! with this weather up here in Scotland its been so stop start that its pointless having a fixed goal in mind

I'm loving endurance and the training that goes with it! its so exhilerating on the rides and my horses are blossoming - maybe dressage and looking pretty can wait! haha
 
I prefer to do the majority of schooling out hacking anyway. I think it gets better results progress wise, horses don't lose interest & when you do compete the horse is used to getting on with it regardless of distractions rather than being used to a controlled environment.
 
littlelegs said:
I prefer to do the majority of schooling out hacking anyway. I think it gets better results progress wise, horses don't lose interest & when you do compete the horse is used to getting on with it regardless of distractions rather than being used to a controlled environment.
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Totally agree with Littlelegs, I get much better results schooling out in the 'real' world than in an arena. The horse doesn't realise its being schooled and I don't get so bored, win win.
 
You can school out hacking! Schooling doesn't have to be restricted to the arena. I'm schooling my new (baby) pony out hacking, rarely take him in the arena because he finds it very stressful. In the arena he can just about cope with walking sensibly, trot and canter are a bit beyond us as he goes nuts. Out hacking he's learning half halts, starting to work on the bit in walk and doing nice, soft transitions into trot, learning baby leg yield and shoulder fore... can't get any of it in the arena so we'll stick to hacking for now!
 
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