Riding & training logs

Most of what you do with a horse isn't paperwork — you ride it. So HorseBook has a place to write that down: a Riding & Training log on every horse's profile. One entry is one session — a ride, a lesson, some groundwork — and it's built to be fast enough that you'll actually keep it up while you're still untacking.

It's not a GPS ride tracker; there's no map or speed. It's a record — what you did, how long, how it went — living on the same profile as the vet records and breeding history, so the whole story of a horse is in one place.

Logging a session

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   Open a horse and go to its Riding & Training tab.
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   Start a new session (Log a Session / Log a Ride).
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   Pick the type and save — that's a complete entry. The date defaults to today, and everything else is optional.

If you've got a spare few seconds, add:

• Duration — quick-pick buttons (15, 30, 45, 60, 90 minutes) or a custom number.
• How the horse felt — a simple toggle: felt normal, or something was off. It's not a diagnosis and the app won't play vet — it's a flag, so if you're later trying to figure out when a soundness thing started, the session where it first felt funny is right there.
• Notes, and a photo if you want one.

The session types

The type list carries both English and Western vocabulary on purpose — "flatwork" and "pattern work" are the same idea to two different people:

Flatwork · Schooling · Lesson · Trail ride / Hack · Jumping · Pattern work · Conditioning · Groundwork · Lunging · Competition · Other

Talk it out instead of typing (iPhone)

On the iPhone, instead of thumb-typing a note with cold hands after a ride, tap Record voice memo, talk through how the session went, and your phone writes it down — the transcript drops into the notes field, where you can fix anything before saving.

The transcription happens on your device — your voice memo isn't shipped off to a server. This one leans on the iPhone's native speech, so it's the phone's to shine on; on the web you type the note (which, at a desk, is usually what you want anyway).

The payoff: the activity summary

One session is just a note. Thirty of them is a picture. Above the session list, HorseBook gives you a plain-English read on the rhythm — something like "You've worked Biscuit about once a week lately — last session yesterday." No charts to squint at, just a sentence over a rolling window. It's the answer to "have I actually been riding this horse, or does it just feel like it."