My new horse Angel is adorable, but lacks any kind of muscle tone and gets out of breath walking up hills (we have a lot of hills round here). I took her jumping yesterday and although she's a fantastically honest horse and jumps everything, she has no impulsion going into the jump so we cat leap over, which isn't that comfortable for me! I lurch forward and it feels very unfluid! She hasn't really done much for a year, so that's none of this is surprising. Any thoughts on a feeding/training regime? At the moment, I ride four days a week - it's a bit of a struggle to ride on Tues/Weds/Thurs as those are my work days and I have a long commute, but I'm going to try and do at least one evening in the indoor school - and we do a bit of schooling and a bit of hacking. I was thinking of starting with short hacks (half an hour) in walk or 20 mins of schooling in walk and trot, and building up from there. Feed-wise, she gets half a scoop of speedibeet, half a scoop of chaff, her balancer (the Top Spec one) and some carrots twice a day, she is in at night and has two huge haynets. So not exactly a high energy diet, but on the other hand, I don't want to blow her mind with high concentrate feeds and have a fizzy yet unfit horse! On the plus side, I can hack her out secure in the knowledge she won't do anything silly as she doesn't have the energy!