‘A broader experience of life off the leadrope’: Emma Massingale reveals the liberty training exercises you need to start your journey

Emma Massingale with a pony at liberty on the beach.

With just two cues, you can create a framework for learning liberty work that your horse will understand and enjoy. With more and more riders making an introduction to liberty training alongside their work in the saddle, you might be curious about adding liberty exercises to your horse’s day-to-day routine.

Liberty training means different things to different trainers, but broadly speaking it encompasses anything a trainer does with their horse free from restraint...