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Stage 2 - Fittening Program

Notes that may help anyone going for their BHS Stage 1 exam or doing their NVQ level 1 or 2 in Horse Care and Riding
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Stage 2 - Fittening Program

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Stage 2 - Fittening Program

How to relate condition, feeding and progressive exercise in order to get a horse fit for light work!

Factors affecting length of programme

- Goal
- Age
- Previous level of training or fitness
- Length of rest
- Temperament
- Soundness (old injuries, TPR etc)

Approximate time required for fittening programme

- 8 weeks for hunting
- 12 weeks for novice eventing
- 16 weeks for 3 day eventing

Getting a horse up from grass

- Shoeing
- Teeth
- Vaccinations - Influenza and tetanus
- Fetch in daily over a period of a week or so and give small feed. Build up to keeping in at night
- Worm
- Clip
- Blood test ?
- Grooming and strapping
- Tack and fitting

Programme split into three phases

- Preliminary
- Development
- Fast

There then must be retention

- Retention

Preliminary
3 - 5 weeks walking
1/2 hour building upto 2 hours including some short slow trots
80% Forage to 20% Concentrate

Development
3 - 5 weeks upto 2 hours daily
Longer trots, slow canters, school work, suppling and gymnastic exercises including jumping
50% Forage to 50% Concentrate

Fast
3 - 5 weeks
Longer canters upto 12 minutes, short gallops, interval training, school work and jump training
40% Forage to 60% Concentrate

Retention
Keep fresh, reduce road work, pipe openers, hacking out
Regular competitions or hunting
Keep diet light, fresh and tempting
Turn out to grass for 2 hours per day

First competition to coincide with end of Fast phase prior to retention!

Roughing Off, (approximately two weeks)

- Check field
- Decrease rugs and blankets gradually
- Reduce concentrate and work and increase forage
- Light grooming only
- Turn out for longer periods each day. Finally turning out fully on mildest day possible
- Remove shoes
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