What are some of your favourite exercises (riding and in-hand) to stretch out your horses muscles and ligaments?
If you google carrot stretches, those are my favorite. There are a ton out there, it’s probably easier to just do a search on Google so you can get videos and images to look at. Hard to describe some of them!
I do carrot stretches, But I also stretch my horses legs out sometimes. It’s easy to overstretch and cause damage, so I am very careful about it. If your horse tenses up, or exhibits signs of pain, its counter productive at that point, and the stretches are probably not being performed correctly. I would talk with a certified equine massage therapist as well as an equine chiropractor.
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C-curve stretches. These are what helped me teach my mare to finally get her left lead correctly. She is right-dominate and always wants to pick up the right lead even though originally being a rope horse, pretty weird…
Anyhow, you ask your horse to give you their head in one direction, ask them to move forward, and when they do push their hip using your leg towards their face. it isn’t a drastic “C” but keep them moving in a straight line, might be easiest to do it along a fence at first. This also helps them drop their head when loping. 
I am new here and I was looking for something which is appropriate for my horse stretching! Thanks for posting guys.
