Core strengthening and rounding exercices can benefit your horse both following injury and as a regular part of his conditioning program. Here, London,

Warm up and cool down routines before and after exercise are just as important to your horse’s physical and mental well being as they are for yours.

Contact, to the average rider, seems to refer only to the contact through the rein, but really, contact is communication with your horse and the rein is just one form of that communication. There are a couple of other points of contact, being your hips and seat, your legs through your thigh and calf, and your heel and foot.

Stretches are a great way to warm up, cool down, and increase flexibility for your horse’s muscles, helping to reduce potential injuries

This is the first in a series of blogs sharing top tip videos and extracts from my book Pilates and Stretching for Horses. As we are all restricted in what we can do with our horses at the moment, these are exercises which you can do with your horse at home. First we will look at the basic principles of stretching correctly. We will then focus on 2 carrot exercises: Carrot Low Between the Front Legs and Carrot Low to the Side.Stretching Exercises for Horses The main objective of successful…