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So how fit is a horse that is either on a pasture or turned out 24/7?I 
wonder if anyone knows how far  or long you  can ride a horse who mainly 
hangs around and doesn't get ridden much, ala weekend warriors kind of 
thing. I know people who trail ride an hour or two or three maybe even most 
of a day and just get on their horses and ride.(course I remember some who 
show who kinda do the same thing).
  I wonder what the safety factor is , or if it is just fraught with the 
serious possiblities of causing major injury.
  It's all this conditioning stuff I've learned about here.I still remember 
the girl who jumped her horse over hundred times in an hour one day as I was 
handwalking a horse at her stable(yes, I counted). And later had the vet out 
with "mysterious" backproblems on the horse.
 Or when we use to go do the local saddle club show and the sand was 
6-8"inches deep and people would put their horses in class, after class, 
when the show ran 12 hours.And they didn't ususally work their horses in 
that kind of sand.
This might be a good question for those whose spouses only ride with them 
occasionally. Do you keep their horse fit too?                        Laurie 
and Rascal(almost dumped her today, was sure that huge brush pile was going 
to eat me  as I passed. )




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