This category will look at many different exercises used to help both rider and horse develop confidence, care and balance. We will look at exercises to improve rhythm; improve quality of the canter; improve the riders jumping position; specific training to improve turns to a fence; the use of cavalletti in the training of an event horse; learning to ride to 325mpm, 350mpm and 375mpm effectively; exercises to emphasise the importance of straightness; and looking at how a horse physically jumps and how we can help, not hinder, that procedure.

This is one of the exercises Yogi Breisner FBHS used at Hartpury’s PMP masterclass day on the 3rd January – […]

This is an insight into 5* rider Felicity Collins training with Ros. Felicity is riding her 5* horse RHS Contendor, […]

‘Emma Thomas is an up-and-coming event rider who is on the Performance Mentoring Programme. She came to stay with me […]

Over the next 6 weeks on the PMP Training Club, the theme will be ‘Training Analysis’ with PMP Mentor Ros […]

A classic ‘Caroline’ exercise that can be used for all levels of horses, and made progressively more difficult for advanced […]

Teaching horses to land and travel, and land and compress, are two key skills that should be bought into all […]

This exercise is all about improving a horses jumping technique. The leading leg approaching a fence is actually the trailing […]

This exercise is all about improving the quality of the jump. For a horse to make a clean jump they […]

We never should stop working on the softness, activity and power within the canter. Here are some exercises that we’ve […]

To build the exercise use two small square oxers that can be jumped from both directions with a distance of […]