Cross-country schooling

Watch Ros Canter’s 2023 Blenheim winner learning to jump skinny fences as a rising five-year-old

How often does Tom McEwen go cross-country schooling? Do his horses wear studs for it? Find out here…

48 cross-country schooling venues you need to check out

#SundaySchool: Jumping a horse on an angle with Francis Whittington

This simple exercise provides a solid foundation for skinnies and arrowheads to help you when jumping a horse on an angle

Simulated cross-country gridwork: how to teach your horse to be as straight as a die

Caroline Moore, former five-star eventer and British Eventing national under-18 coach and junior team coach, explains how you can use this gridwork exercise to encourage your horse to become more straight and quick on his feet

The ultimate exercise to get you and your horse on the ball before going eventing

Caroline Moore, former five-star eventer and British Eventing national under-18 coach and junior team coach, explains how you can use this exercise to sharpen up both you and your horse before competition

Slick and sharp: the building block cross-country exercise that will aid your success

Caroline Moore, former five-star eventer and British Eventing national under-18 coach and junior team coach, explains how you can use this exercise to begin to teach your horse how to turn to and over a fence

Don’t get the cold shoulder: how to tackle a shoulder brush across country

Caroline Moore, former five-star eventer and British Eventing national under-18 coach and junior team coach, explains how to tackle shoulder brushes across country

Turn, baby, turn — how to teach your horse to turn over a fence onto a new line

Caroline Moore, former five-star eventer and British Eventing national under-18 coach and junior team coach, explains how to teach a horse and rider to turn onto a new line over a fence

Holding a straight line across country — the difference between success and failure

Caroline Moore, former five-star eventer and British Eventing national under-18 coach and junior team coach, explains how to teach a horse to hold a line over and in between fences

Caroline Moore: How to train your horse to jump an angled skinny fence

Caroline Moore, former five-star eventer and British Eventing national under-18 coach and junior team coach, we learn how to teach a horse how to jump this technical cross-country question

Fancy footwork: how to get the most from your horse’s jumping canter

Caroline Moore, former five-star eventer and British Eventing national under-18 coach and junior team coach, explains how you can use this exercise to develop footwork in your horse’s canter

#SundaySchool: Alex Bragg on how to maintain a line through narrow or offset fences

The event rider provides his exercise for keeping your horse on a dead-straight line on the cross-country course

Hard going: how to cross-country school effectively without running on hard ground

Here’s some helpful pointers from five-star international event rider, Kate Honey (pictured), about how you can make the most of a cross-country schooling session in an arena

The future of Team GB? Watch this 10-year-old jockey and her 11hh pony take on some serious cross-country fences...

‘One thing people always comment on is her attitude; she is a very sympathetic rider and is always positive and polite...’

Fun, focus and footwork: must-have cross-country riding advice from Lucinda Green

Improve your cross-country skills with advice from the six-time Badminton winner — from being flexible with bits to making sure your horse sees the fence

Check out this exuberant event horse with invisible wings

Find out the story behind this brilliant moment captured on camera in Australia

Charlotte Dujardin takes dressage star cross-country schooling

The dressage stars demonstrated their all-round talent over logs and through the water jump

Lucinda Green gives her verdict on ‘realistic’ new cross-country schooling course

Horse & Hound’s eventing editor Pippa Roome takes her “sports pony” to try out Slades Farm, a new cross-country schooling course in Surrey — and gets Lucinda Green’s verdict on the facilities

H&H question of the week: my horse hates ditches — what should I do?

Four-star event rider Coral Keen provides one H&H forum user with some helpful advice on how to help her horse overcome his fear of ditches