Area 5 B Test

OBJECTIVES
• To understand the role of safeguarding horses’ welfare in keeping
equestrians’ social licence to operate
• To understand your responsibility with regard to the Five Domains of horse
welfare
• To derive satisfaction from providing suitable care for stabled horses
• To understand how horses learn and use this knowledge in the field, yard,
and stable
• To demonstrate practical experience and/or understanding and knowledge
of the care and work of a stabled or grass-kept horse
• To be capable of looking after a horse before, during, and after a strenuous day’s
activity or competition

OBJECTIVES
• To appreciate the fun and satisfaction in developing a horse’s training
• To understand how individual horses’ behaviour may require adaptations in their
training
• To understand how horses learn and how to use this knowledge when riding
• To become an educated, effective, and practical rider who knows the reasons for
what he or she is doing
• To be capable of riding a well-mannered horse in a variety of Pony Club activities
• To ride intelligently and with due regard for others who may be riding young, green,
or untrained horses
• To know and understand the basic responses for all horses to be ridden safely and
successfully
• To know and understand the first three points in the Scale of Training, providing a
staircase of training suitable for all horses
• To be able to maintain a horse’s way of going
• To ride over a variety of fences at all paces (approx. height, 85 cm)
• To understand your responsibilities towards equestrianism’s social licence to operate