Equitation and Lunging

At the moment we get three lessons a week but on some occasions we get to hack out. Both Alistair and Mary have been the ones teaching us and the lessons are for one hour. As we have not long started college and the most of the horses had a summer off, so we have been focusing on getting the horses fit. This includes quite allot of flat work. All students get to ride different horses this is good for us as it gives us experience and the feel of different horses as all the horses at the yard are different breeds and all have different characteristics. Sometimes we only ride twice a week and we get to lunge tho horses instead. This is also a form of exercise for them but is harder on the horses than getting ridden. Lunging is also important for us to learn how to do it properly as we will be tested on it in our exams.