THE POLES AND FUNNEL

This exercise helps with straightness and regulates your horse’s pace and stride length. It also engages his core, stretches his topline and activates his hind end.

Place three poles approximately a metre apart with a funnel of poles at either end to encourage straightness. You can change the distance between the poles to shorten or lengthen his frame.

Raise one end of a pole and then gradually raise the other end of alternate poles (always raise only one end of each pole, not both).

Walk beside your horse over the poles — do this leading him from both sides so he doesn’t get reliant on you and thinks for himself.