Scott Brash: "The warm-up is to relax your horse, not to test its limits!"

Scott Brash launches an 'awareness': The warm-up ring at a competition is for warming up, not for testing your horse's abilities. But why? Is it a myth or fact that your horse jumps better in the course because of it? "The rider's task is to give the horse opportunities, not to squeeze the last drop out of it, certainly not in the warm-up area!" he says.