PART TWO TRAINING SERIES
Meet the horse Cooley Anything You Like, 9yo Irish Sport Horse (Camillo VDL x Young Convinced)
Stable name: Neville
Owned by: James Midgley and Gaie Scouller
Level: sent by Piggy March to work with Harry over the winter
ON a grey day in late December, Harry Meade gave H&H an insight into his winter training systems. In last week's magazine (11 January), he covered two exercises on the flat to improve a horse's way of going with pinpoint precision and challenging transitions.
Here, Harry demonstrates two exercises, using both big and small fences to hone technique, develop strength and improve rideability.
Exercise one: cavaletti
Working on: teaching horses flying changes
THE WARM-UP
FOUR small fences (or cavaletti) are set up along the centre line of the arena (see diagram, right). Having had a trot and canter on each rein and trotted over a line of raised poles, Harry then pops a few cavaletti from canter on each rein.
“When teaching horses flying changes, a common mistake for some horses is
