Leigh Martin from Mountain River in Tasmania writes about his track…

 
We have set up track about 4months ago I guess been working well in fact I think its could be the best thing we have ever done for our horses.
We are lucky in that the perimiter of our property about 1 5klm is where most of our trees are and our dam and bush areas. Unfortuntely for the horses well they think so the dam is at the opposite end of the property to all the nice grass.
They have defintely developed regular beats and places they like to go at certain times of the day and they never gallop just huge extended canters if they want to have a runplay. Which they seem to do a hell of a lot!!

We have some big paddocks off our track and open them up occasionally for them we try to get the right mix of grass and track when we open a paddock they often stay in there all day so we shoo them out and close if of a night. Once the paddock has been opened for a while they treat is as part of the track in fact we set the gates up so they have to go the long way around to get grass and then come all the way back out and along the track to get a drink and then back againits a hard life. It is much easier to manage their feeding we yard them of night for an hour or so as some get separate