With a bit of imagination, exercises involving poles on the ground can be good fun for horses and for riders. They don’t just put the horse’s body through its paces, but also their brain ...

Once the horse is performing this exercise well you can gradually increase the height of the poles, but they should not exceed about a foot on one side, with the other end resting on the ground.

As an avid lover of aerial exercises, I enjoy practising gravity-defying sequences and tricks that involve suspending myself ...