Royal Windsor Horse Show: Kent Farrington discusses fitness

“She’s 16.1hh – the opposite riders will name {that a} pony however she’s the most important one in my steady! I’m not that massive, so for my fashion of using and my construct, I are inclined to go along with smaller, lighter sorts of horses, which is what I realized on – thoroughbreds. Normally the query is will they leap large enough to make it?

“I’ve a giant group of youthful horses beneath [my top ones] and I believe that’s the evolution of our sport because it’s grown, each by way of viewers and numbers of opponents. Discovering horses that may do the game is a part of it – to purchase them once they’re youthful and put extra time into producing them. The quantity of coaching it takes to get a horse to leap spherical a full 1.60m grand prix course takes years, there’s no strategy to fast-track that have.”

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