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Training
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flat horses, or early training of future steeplechasers, the foxhunting field is a great training tool. He uses foxhunting for many of his young horses learning to jump, or for more nervous types learning to relax.
“In the old days, I used to do all sorts of stuff with my horses. Hunter trials and everything. It’s more serious now, but we still foxhunt some of them. It helps them learn to stay cool in company.”
Morris, too, likes to use foxhunting for more advanced training of the young horse, and for retraining of the hurdle horse to convert to racing over timber. Hurdle horses, he said, are urged to take the forgiving fences in stride, barely skipping over the soft brush. Timber horses, on the other hand, must learn to use their bodies, athletically, to clear solid post and rail or telephone pole jumps cleanly.
“We also use a bit of show jumping, gridwork, that sort of thing during the winter when the weather is an issue,” Morris said.
Valentine likes to use the foxhunting field for early train
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