What is your horse’s fitness routine ?? . Swatch is such a new type of ride for me. My previous intermediate horse was a petite OTTB mare whose base fitness came so much easier. . As summer and fall progressed, I had a little trial and error with Swatch. He was fairly tired after his first Intermediate which coincided with the first of August, a super hot weekend. So I bumped up the hacking and trotting. We ran another great event, but then the third which ran as a one day I ran out of gas at the end. . It was really back to the drawing board of how can I take care of his body and reduce concussion but get my fitness work in. At 17.3h and a goal to jump the biggest fences, I think it’s so important to be strategic with a plan to keep him happy and healthy for a long time. It was really an overall updating his grain, fitness, getting back to my vets. It’s a little lack of experience, what routine for my petite TB mare is probably not the same routine for my 17.3 big Irish boy. . I sta...