Leone’s op-ed “Not a bicycle. . . “

[CBoylen]

That would be a pretty normal amount of prep for a horse, particularly at indoors. Remember there is no turnout, and by the Maclay there’s been no turnout for most of them for over 6 weeks. Warmup when you are on for the class is 10 minutes basically, so there also needs to be some rider prep.

[Texarkana]

@Blugal

Can someone explain to me the thinking behind the proposed rule - horses can be lunged/ridden up to 2 hours PLUS their warm-up for the class, in each 24 hour period.

That seems like an awfully long amount of lunging and riding! I consider a normal day at home to be a 45-60 minute session, including lunging. Sometimes if I’m getting a horse fitter, I’d add some hacking to that schedule. The total would still only be 2 hours max. And I wouldn’t do that several days in a row.

Totally different sport, but forever a day ago when I groomed upper level eventers, 2 hours of lunging and riding before the pro got on to school the horse would be a normal day. This was also in the days of long format, I’m not sure if anyone still does that today.

I completely agree 2 hours of going round and round and round the warm-up continuously would be insane (though I’ve heard stories of it). But I think 2 hours is a fair limit for someone who might take their horse out multiple times a day to stretch their legs in lieu of turnout. Some show grounds don’t even have a decent hand walking areas so lunging or riding it is.

[Headsup123]

Except Hope said the same thing was going on in the jumper ring and Armand believes it only happens to equitation horses.