Fit as a fiddle
KICKING OFF A series of webinars on equine welfare, Pippa Funnell joined Roly Owers and Adam Cummins from World Horse Welfare to discuss ‘Maintaining your horse’s fitness over summer 2020’. The 2019 Burghley winner talked about how her own yard coped during lockdown, but stressed that despite these exceptional circumstances, keeping our horses fit and bringing them back into work correctly is essential.
Pippa’s valuable advice applies to anyone bringing a horse back into work post Covid-19, after a break from injury, or those upping their horse’s workload.
“Horses have breaks all the time,” says Pippa. “After a season competing, mine always get six weeks or more off without being ridden. Then they’re on a month’s hacking before they even start in the school.”
Over lockdown, Pippa kept her horses in work as stopping completely would have been detrimental to their health and put them at risk
