Dressage | Medium
To practice halting at the marker, riding a 20-meter circle, and lengthening the trot stride across the diagonal.
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Jumping | Hard
direction and straightness
Lunging | Medium
Use ground poles to perform transitions.
Cavalettis | Medium
Training on a course
Dressage | Customizable
Improve the horse’s responsiveness, balance, and engagement through precise transitions and ground poles.
Jumping | Hard
improve accuracy on a show jumping course
Cavalettis | Medium
To work on straightness and rhythm.
Jumping | Medium
Improve straightness and practice flying lead changes
Groundwork | Customizable
The goal is to encourage the horse to become independent from its handler and to desensitize it.
Dressage | Hard
To supple your horse, work on reactivity, engage the hindquarters, and improve the execution of both movements.
Jumping | Medium
Rhythm and straightness
Cavalettis | Easy
To work on straightness, bending, canter transitions, engagement, and rhythm.
Jumping | Medium
Achieve a smooth track and correct distances
Jumping | Easy
Get a young horse to jump an obstacle
Jumping | Medium
– Work on riding curves and landing on the correct lead – Check the horse’s honesty over fences – Increase the reactivity of the forehand during the jump
Cavalettis | Customizable
pikking up there feet
Cavalettis | Easy
Improve balance and suppleness / useful for jumping / develops the horse's technique
Dressage | Easy
Capture the horse’s attention and improve transitions.
Mountain Trail | Easy
For the horse: - Improve proprioception (awareness of space and foot placement). - Learn to cross simple obstacles with regularity and calmness. - Strengthen lateral mobility (suppleness of hips and shoulders). - Get used to listening to and anticipating cues, even in technical sequences.
Mountain Trail | Easy
Improve the horse's suppleness and develop balance; regularity of rhythm; maintenance of bend; honesty and calmness; control of the line.
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The problem is never a shortage of ideas — they are everywhere. The problem is finding an exercise you can actually do with the horse you ride, the ground you have and whatever equipment is lying at the edge of the arena.
That is exactly what our search filters do:
- The discipline: dressage, show jumping, groundwork, lungeing, equifeel, mountain trail and many more
- The level: beginner, intermediate or advanced, with the difficulty stated on every sheet
- The working area: arena, lungeing ring, field or out hacking
- The equipment: poles, cavalettis, wings, cones, equifeel props — from none to fifteen, you only get what matches what you own. No more frustration, and no more head-scratching to adapt an exercise to what you have.
Combine those four criteria and you get a tailored selection rather than a catalog to sift through. Add the exercises you like to your favorites and they stay within reach for your next sessions.
What an exercise sheet contains
Every exercise comes as a sheet, built to be followed at the edge of the arena with your phone in hand.
- A diagram so you can see the pattern, the movements and the set-up to build before you get in the saddle.
- A summary — session type, space needed, equipment required — so you know in three seconds whether the exercise is doable today.
- A three-part walkthrough: the goals being worked, the exercise step by step, and the difficulties you may run into.
That last part matters most when you ride without a coach: nobody at the arena rail to tell you why the horse rushes through the line, but the answer is written down.
One more tool: the distance calculator
Getting the spacing between poles wrong is one of the classic reasons a jumping session falls apart. Our automatic distance calculator gives you the spacing to aim for — an estimate — based on your horse's size and the gait you are working: approaches, strides, fences, ground poles. Enough to help you set your grid up right.
Every discipline, every goal
Looking for a course idea for jumping? Would you rather build up gradually and start with a ground pole or cavalletti exercise? Our exercise sheets cover both.
Groundwork and lungeing let you keep progressing on the days you do not ride, or with a horse coming back into work. Equifeel and mountain trail build confidence and handiness — useful well beyond their own disciplines.
Whatever your goal, the idea stays the same: we give you the ingredients, you put the session together.
Frequently asked questions
How do I find a riding exercise with no equipment?
Leave the equipment panel of the search at zero: exercises that need poles, cavalettis or wings drop off the list, and all that is left is what you can do empty-handed.
Which exercises suit a beginner rider?
Filter on the beginner level: every sheet states its difficulty, so the search only returns sessions written for that level.
Can you train seriously without an arena?
Yes. The working area filter covers the lungeing ring, the field and hacking out, and groundwork, lungeing and equifeel need no arena at all.
Are the exercises free?
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