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Conditioning

Conditioning is making your horse fit. In order to condition your horse first you need to write a plan. You may wish to see my sample conditioning plan for help. Mine is for novice eventing. Your conditioning plan should be 6-8 weeks and the work should gradually increase until it reaches the level of difficulty for what you are conditioning for.

Now you should understand about how you need to change your horse's feed as you condition. As your horse becomes more fit and burns more calories each day, you will need to increase the number of calories you feed him. Be sure that as you increase your horse's grain you also increase the roughage so you have at least twice as much roughage as grain. Each time your horse has a day off in your conditioning program you should cut his or her grain in half, to reduce the risk that he/she will tie up, founder, etc.