Stride Counting Exercise

Katie Monahan Prudent’s four-step guide to understanding and controlling stride length on the approach to and between obstacles.

Eventer Andrew McConnon favors this simple cavalletti exercise to help horses and riders develop their instinct and learn adjustability by feeling their strides, rather than counting them.

Five-time Olympian Anne Kursinski’s simple stride-counting exercise will have you and your horse flowing through turns with better balance and finding distances with greater ease.