A Day in the Life of Valegro

obviously now fully trained groupie and how do you maintain that level fitness excitement in his work how do you keep his weekly routine okay so his weekly routine as he works four days a week so he schools on a Monday Tuesday Thursday Friday he'll work for 45 minutes with me Allen takes him up the road beforehand so he'll do a half an hour hack up the road so that he's on two different surfaces really that it's good that he goes on the hard and he goes on the soft on a Wednesday he actually gets hacked by Trish Gardner who is a former Ryder judge and Ryder herself Olympic rider and she takes him hacking on a Wednesday and a Saturday and he also does the water treadmill twice a week so that we find his really good fitness that he does the treadmill in without the pressure on his legs and it's really really helped keep him that bit fitter obviously we knew think these horses that grand prix level have to travel they do an awful lot of traveling sometimes they're on the lorry for two days traveling and you know then they have to compete up to you know three tests sometimes sometimes two so there's a lot of work involved in in taken into these competitions and you know it's important for us that we get them as fit as we can but without obviously any risk of injuries and then after a competition after travelling does he have some downtime so yeah every time after competition he actually gets a holiday so he probably gets you know two or three weeks where he just goes out in the field and has his own time and his own space to recover really you know it's if you think I'm how much work he's done it's a lot of work and a lot of travel so he earns that time to have to cover

Channel: saracenhorsefeeds

Views: 430,200

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Keywords: Dressage (Sport), Valegro, British Dressage, FEI, Charlotte Dujardin (Olympic Athlete), Carl Hester (Olympic Athlete), Saracen Horse Feeds, World Champion

Id: lWZhdaR5Dj4

Length: 2min 14sec (134 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 03 2015