What is your weekly "horse" routine?

[FreddiesGal]

Mine is something like this (pony is 6, fairly fit and a bundle of energy)

Monday : 45mins Flatwork

Tuesday : 1 hour off road hack, lots of trotting and cantering up and down hills, a few good gallops

Wednesday : A walk in hand for some grass

Thursday : Jumping

Friday : Day off

Saturday : Hack

Sunday : Pootle around the feilds bareback, maybe a few canters.

Also please state how old horses/ponies are, i'd be particularly interested on what sort of workload horses of a similar age are getting

 

[Firewell]

I don't have a set routine but I do ride my horse 6 days per week. I never do the same activity more than 2 days in a row. As a general rule I hack twice, lunge once, practise dressage once, practice dressage and then pop a couple of jumps once and then jump properly once. I do also do fast work in the field or I practise dressage in the field every now and again as it's very important for eventing.
I have to jump him twice a week or he just gets stupidly excited jumping (he loves it!), He likes dressage and we do a fair bit so practice that. He has his hacks to chill out and have a canter and do some hill work and on the lunge he likes to have a buck and fart and get the wrinkles out .

He has a very varied life does my horse!

 

[Lintel]

Bailey- 5 this month!!! Highland - Is a slow coach.. lives life in the slow lane.

Monday: 30 minutes schooling- 15 minute bomb around the field
Tuesday: 30 minutes schooling- with a good hack round about, or a short one if pushed for time!
Wednesday: Bareback wander/tiny bit of schooling.
Thursday: 15 minute schooling session. A good hour or so hack round about the hills and trails
Friday: (sometimes a day off) Sometimes a intensive insane hack with his buddy where we go wild and let the horses take over x]
Saturday: Tends to be an hour hack out and about and then some wee jumps back home with his buddy
Sunday: Couple of hours hack or so

My week tends to get messed up though! - nothing goes to plan
He is in during the night and out in the day- fed on a tiny bit of bran, magnesium and garlic with a spoon of suregrow(twice a week).
On big soaked hay net at night

 

[amandaco2]

B six yr old
Monday forty min schooling mostly stretching work
Tues. Thirty min on lunge on square shape, sometimes with raised poles.
Wed. Hack down lane or on gallops mostly walk thirty mins
Thurs school forty min at Nov to ele level
Fri either lunge over jumps or hack out forty min.
Sat hack out twenty min mostly walk and school forty min Nov to ele.
Sunday same or two hr hack

Manny same but working at inter II level, k at ele to medium.

Normally have two days off per month......

 

[Littlelegs]

As we have no arena, our routine is dependent on how dry the field is, so no fixed routine. 23yr old connie x tb & rising 5 11.1 belonging to 7yr old daughter. Try to lunge, school & jump once a week & hack twice, but when grounds wet it often ends up hacking 5x. But we do always school on hacks. Teach daughter myself but in addition to above I usually give her an extra lesson on mine that's half flat & half jump. Does vary though, some weeks are busy or wet & it might be 3 hacks, or we do local shows etc at wkend. Usually consistent though, daughter obsessed with riding & I'd rather exercise them than diet them (both good doers). And regular exercise is the best thing to keep an older one healthy imo. Younger also really enjoys her work, naturally forwards & energetic anyway but has a tendency to get very speedy & over excited if not regularly worked, but that's also her age.

 

[JFTDWS]

It's rather like that Michael McIntyre skin regime - every week I have horses

No fixed regime as no school, so ground conditions dependent etc as well as competitive schedule. Fergs is rising 6, and is normally ridden 6-7 days a week.

Ideally, he's schooled 2 times a week for about 45mins-1hr, jumped once for about 1-1 and a half hours (allowing for grid changes etc), hacked 2-3 times - from 45 mins short ones to 3-4 hour fast ones, and competed once.

Days depend on what he's doing - if he competes on a Sunday he'll have the Monday off, if he competes mid week, he normally has the next day off or hack out the following day, if he competes on a Saturday, he hacks on Monday... Sometimes he'll compete mid week and at the weekend, or have a horseball session instead of a schooling session.

Currently, not much jumping or schooling at home due to ground conditions, so he's hacking out 5 times a week and competing and/or horseball training the rest of the time.

 

[LeannePip]

It's rather like that Michael McIntyre skin regime - every week I have horses

^^This, Every week i have a horse!

i try and plan but it doesn't always work out

Pip 4yo, works 4/5times a week, hacks twice bit of schooling inbetween - maybe compete then probably jump once a fortnight. i dont lunge her. she always has the day off after a competition and like she competed lastweekend and the weekend before so after last weekends competition she had three days off to recover rode for the first time today and she was a star

 

[dafthoss]

Well for the past few weeks it been a bit regimented as I have only been home for certain days. Another with no school so reliant on ground conditions, will have more jumping in soon when I get my jumps sorted.

Mon - school
Tues - flat lesson
Wed & Thurs - off as I'm at uni
Fri - fast work to get rid of the energy from 2 days off (not recently because of ground) or pc
Sat - Short school working on what we did in last lesson then more fast work
Sun - similar to sat but depends on what I have going on might be competing or hacking depends on what I fancy doing.

 

[rowy]

It basically changes from week to week but
Rowan, 5 year old, competing novice dressage gets:
2-3 times 30-40 mins schooling
2 times 40mins - 1 hour hack
1 times 20 min lunge in pessoa.

Dancer, 19 year old, competing novice dressage gets:
3 times schooling 40 mins+
2 times hack 40mins- 1 hour
1 time lunge with no gear on and encouraging her to stretch for 20 mins

Lola, 4 year old, exmoor pony
1 time school 20 mins max
2-3 times hack for up to 40-50 mins

 

[blood_magik]

we're limited at the moment due to injury. jerry's 21.
Monday: 20 minutes walk in-hand.
Tuesday: 25 minutes walk in school.
Wednesday: 25 minute hack in walk on flat ground
Thursday: 25 minutes walk with poles and obstacles
Friday: 25 minutes walk in-hand
Saturday: 25 minute hack in walk
Sunday: 25 minutes walk bareback.

we used to do:
Monday: flatwork 40 mins - 1hr
Tuesday: off
Wednesday: flatwork
Thursday: hack inc fitness-building 1-2 hr depending on route
Friday: off
Saturday: jump 40 min
Sunday: flatwork 40 mins - 1hr

flatwork is interchanged with free schooling and lunging (in side reins or Pessoa).

 

[leah_x]

My 15yo ex racer goes;
Monday - 'boring' flat work (lots of circles, transitions etc)
Tuesday - fun flatwork like bending in and out of poles, collecting up and extending in canter, flying change (he seems to like all that jazz)
Wednesday - hacking
Thursday - jumping
Friday - day off
Saturday - a bit of everything
Sunday - lovely long hack

 

[spotty_pony]

My Appy has a bit of an easier time during the summer as I hunt him during the winter (although only a couple of times per month so I do not turn him away for the summer) We mainly hack out, do the odd bit of schooling and occasionally a bit of jumping. On average at the moment, he is being ridden 4-5 times per week. The length of the hacks vary from an hour up to three hours and includes hill work, trot and canter work. I basically keep him ticking over during the Spring and Summer but let him loose some of his fitness - and then start working on his fitness again at the end of August ready for the Hunting Season.