Working horses on deep ground... Yes or no?

[Starbucks]

Well the lovely stubble fields I normally enjoy having a good raz around on this time of year have been cut - shame it won't stop raining.... they are pretty soggy.

Badger is pretty used to the mud being a hunter, but it is a bit worrying cantering on deep ground.... what do you guys think?? Yay or nay??

 

[CracklinRosie]

Depends on the horse, wouldn't do it on mine but one has back issues and the other is 17hh of spindly TB!

 

[Nailed]

defo depends on the horse, i wouldnt with Ted as he is a TB who has just come sounds after a SDFT tendon injury!

However i had a welch sec d onloan who i regularly worked on deep ground and it improved his balence.

Lou x

 

[Tangaroo]

Ive been using our local stubble fields for canter work in the last two or three weeks but i have to admit that i have backed off it now cos they are getting too deep. I have still got one grass field on a bridle path that goes up a fairly long steep hill so now they have to canter up that twice instead. its a bit boring but better than wrecked legs.

 

[rachaelv2005]

Def no no....we have a menage with a terrible surface, very inconsistent deep then shallow..... my mare is always 'lame' in there. Just shows the effort she is having to make to work through the ground. I have taken to schooling out on hacks or on the beach when its in a bad way.

 

[Skhosu]

why would you? Deep stubble fields are a recipe for disaster-strains, pulls and lost shoes!

 

[Weezy]

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Ditto. I walked over ours today and the horses were walking in a strange manner as it was as they were almost goose stepping - I wanted to canter, I didn't even trot

 

[KatB]

If it is deep holding ground, not a chance. If it is just sloppy poor off their legs deep, thats not so bad

 

[Noodlejaffa]

It's a no from me, I'm afraid. Shoes coming off and the worry of injury making me paranoid. Unfortunately with all this walking we're having to do, my horses are getting a tad explosive!

 

[Jul]

Nope, I wouldn't. Just not worth the risk IMO.