BHS Challenge Awards - Bronze Awards

• How to work safely on a yard
• How your behaviour or actions could affect your horse
• How to put a headcollar on and tie up your horse
• How to lead your horse
• How to clean your tack

Behaviour

• I can describe the horse’s natural behaviours and instincts
• I can describe a horse’s vision and how thismay affect his behaviour

Stable Care

• I can list different types of bedding
• I can skip out a stable and tidy the bed
• I can clean and refill a water bucket or water drinker

Field Care

• I can give reasons to support regular turnout
• I can describe suitable fencing for field boundaries
• I can carry out routine daily field checks

Rugs

• I can identify and describe types of rug and their use
• I can put on and take off a rug

Grooming

• I can describe the benefits for grooming horses
• I can explain the use of the items in a grooming kit
• I can groom a horse
• I can care for a horse after exercise

• I can give reasons for lungeing a horse
• I can list the equipment required to lunge a horse
• I can tack up for lungeing
• I can lead a horse in preparation for lungeing
• I can coil the lunge line
• I can change the whip over
• I can untack the horse after lungeing

How To Book

Simply go To - Make a Booking - then choose the start date of the SATURDAY 26TH APRIL (or any Saturday within the course dates) and scroll to the bottom of the page where it states Courses. Alternatively, click the "book now" button to go to the calendar view of What's On and scroll to 26th APRIL. If you are eligible to join the course i.e the right age range of 6 - 12. If the course has already started you can still join the course, but you will only receive the remaining sessions. You will also need to purchase the Pony stars Book which goes with the course this is £15 and will be invoiced separately.