Enhance your special relationship with horses. Understand the best way to keep them in a healthy condition by developing your grooming skills and knowledge of horse psychology.
Bronze Award
You will find out about:
- Your horse’s routine care
- How to provide care to horses in the stable and in the field
- The different types of rug available
- How to put on and take off a rug
- How to groom your horse
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Silver Award
By completing this award you will find out:
- How horses communicate
- How to muck out a stable
- Which plants and trees are poisonous to horses
- How to care for your horse in a field
- How to check the fit of a rug
- Further grooming techniques
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Gold Award
By completing this award you will find out:
- How to manage and reduce stress in your horse
- The ideal living environment for your horse
- Field care
- How to use an exercise sheet
- How to bath, plait and clip your horse
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Platinum Award
By completing this award you will learn about:
- Social behaviour
- Enrichment ideas for stabled horses
- Trimming techniques
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HOW TO GET INVOLVED
If you have your own horse, courses are delivered by an Accredited Professional Coach. Your coach can come to your livery yard or British Riding Club grounds.
If you do not own your own horse, or you’re not sure if they would be suitable, don’t worry. There are BHS Approved Riding Centres throughout the UK that deliver challenge awards with their facilities and horses.
You can achieve the challenge awards at your local Approved Centre where they will match you to a horse to ensure your lessons are suitable to your experience.
