Sam Matthews

In NZ the best fattening feed is Dunstan bred and grow, it's a broodmare feed but we feed it to all our show jumpers and race horses. So maybe try a local broodmare feed for weight gain?

Simple leg and neck stretches are great for the older horses and ponies, simply bring their legs forward and back as far as they'll go comfortably and bring the neck to either side as a stretch as well as down to the ground and up over ear height. Hope this helps!

Long reining the horse before getting on them is so important, long reining is how you get the horse to have a good mouth and understand basic aids left, right, stop and go