Mark Todd
•“One thing that you must never underestimate is the part that schooling on the flat plays in the fitness program of an event horse. I like to spend between 20 and 30 minutes schooling in basic dressage with a few simple jumping exercise included.
Additionally, I prefer to incorporate
a hack with a varied degree of trotting
and hill work depending on where I am in my training with a particular horse. If you cannot school your horse often, your time hacking will need to be more demanding, so it may incorporate longer trotting periods, more hill work, extended cantering, etc.