So every now and then i have a little panic about whether i should be riding my mare at my weight.....
At the moment she's lost a little fitness and that makes me worry even more as she gets out of breath quicker and i worry im hurting her!!
She's a 13/13'1 welsh X with approx 6.5inchs of cannon bone and is also quite short backed.
Doing the sum of adding all ponys weight and rider/tack etc diving by cannon and halving i get 65, which is well within the limit BUT i know this isn't an accurate method.
Basically i know she can cope fine with a bit of short happy hacking with me but should i be jumping her 2ft6 and doing intense schooling and long hacks???
At the moment she's lost a little fitness and that makes me worry even more as she gets out of breath quicker and i worry im hurting her!!
She's a 13/13'1 welsh X with approx 6.5inchs of cannon bone and is also quite short backed.
Doing the sum of adding all ponys weight and rider/tack etc diving by cannon and halving i get 65, which is well within the limit BUT i know this isn't an accurate method.
Basically i know she can cope fine with a bit of short happy hacking with me but should i be jumping her 2ft6 and doing intense schooling and long hacks???