Horse Riding
What
is it?
The sport of riding horses. This programme is designed to encourage the riding
and care of ponies and horses, to enhance knowledge and understanding and
improve personal fitness and health.
Safety
Message
Participants should receive appropriate tuition and training on riding and
stable management skills from qualified instructors. Suitable and appropriate
safety equipment should be worn when handling and riding ponies and horses.
Ideas/Aims
• Handling ponies and horses safely.
• Tacking up ponies and horses.
• Riding at walk, trot and canter with and
without stirrups.
• Trotting over ground poles and jumping
low fences.
• Grooming ponies and horses.
• Knowledge of the Highway Code.
• Basic feeding skills.
• Learning how to care for a pony or horse
in a stable or out at grass.
Review/Assessment
The assessor should check that the participant fully understands the need
for safety awareness when working with and riding horses or ponies. The young
person should show improvement in their riding ability over the required period
of time.
Governing Body/Organisation
The British Horse Society, Stoneleigh Deer Park, Kenilworth, Warwickshire,
CV8 2XZ
Tel: 01926 707700, Fax: 01926 707800,
E-mail: enquiry@bhs.org.uk
web site: www.bhs.org.uk
British
Horseriding Board, 42, Portman Square, London, W1H 0EN
Tel: 020 7396 0011, Fax: 020 7935 3626
web site: www.bhb.co.uk