The training half of the story. A seven-page log built for horses in real work — multiple sessions a day, walker and treadmill time, travel, bodywork, bloodwork and what the horse earns.
Three formats. One download. No upgrade to buy.
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Printable PDF — for the barn binder and the tack room wall.
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Fillable PDF — over 1,100 typeable fields that save what you enter.
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Spreadsheet (Excel / Google Sheets) — fourteen tabs, and it does the arithmetic.
What the spreadsheet does
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Tells you the net. It totals earnings from the Competitions tab, subtracts entry fees, lessons, bodywork, bloodwork, aftercare, feed and travel, and shows what the season actually came to. Negative turns red. Most people never run that number.
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Counts the season — rides logged, competitions entered, lessons taken, bodywork sessions.
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Sorts and filters — every ride at one venue, every session on grass, every time the pulse did not come down.
Designed as a companion to the Equine Health Record
It asks only for the contacts you need trackside — owner, vet, farrier, coach — instead of repeating the horse's full details. Routine care lives in the health record. Work lives here.
The seven pages
1 — Season Plan. Contacts, season goals with target dates and milestones, and a weekly program with separate columns for AM work, PM work, walker or treadmill or swim, and turnout — because sport horses do not do one thing a day. Plus a change log for workload, bit, shoeing, tack or feed, with the effect you noticed.
2 — Ride Journal. Nineteen rows: date, session, work, conditions, how the horse felt, what went well, what to fix or ask your coach. The page you fill in while the horse is still cooling.
3 — TPR, Recovery & Cool-Out. Resting baseline across three days. Then temperature, pulse and respiration straight after work, again at ten minutes, and how many minutes to cool. Day conditions and travel — venue, air temperature, humidity, days post-haul — because a horse that just shipped to another climate is not the same horse. Post-work check for heat, filling, digital pulse and hydration.
4 — Recovery & Aftercare. Ice boots, poultice, wraps, solarium, magnetic, laser, stretching — what you did and whether it helped. Plus work-day feeding: electrolytes, hauling days, competition days.
5 — Bodywork & Bloodwork. Chiropractic, acupuncture, PEMF, laser, shockwave, saddle fitting — with what the practitioner actually found. And a bloodwork page with room for the real values, because a season of trends tells you far more than one result.
6 — Competition Record. Date, event, class, level, placing, score, judge, entry fee and earnings, followed by an honest what-to-work-on section.
7 — Lessons & Costs. Instructor, focus, what worked, homework. Then season costs and earnings side by side, with totals for what you spent, what the horse earned, the net, and career earnings to date.
What most logs leave out
Earnings. Plenty of logs track what a season costs. Almost none track what the horse brings back. This does both, so at the end of the year you know the real number — and it follows the horse as part of its record and its resale value.
Recovery. A fit horse drops close to its resting pulse within about ten minutes. Recovery that keeps getting slower at the same workload, or a cool-out that keeps taking longer, is often the earliest sign something is wrong — weeks before it is visible. Almost nobody writes it down, so almost nobody catches it.
Details
- Three files: printable PDF, fillable PDF, and .xlsx spreadsheet
- PDFs are 7 pages, US Letter (8.5 × 11 in), with an extra left margin for a three-ring binder
- Temperatures in °F and °C — built for riders who travel
- The spreadsheet opens in Excel, Numbers, or Google Sheets
- Fillable PDF works best on a computer or tablet with Adobe Acrobat Reader (free), Mac Preview, or most browsers. Some phone apps will not save typed data.
- Personal use across your own horses. Not for resale or redistribution.
A record-keeping form, not veterinary, training or tax advice. Conditioning programs should be built with your vet and coach, and prize money is usually reportable income — talk to your accountant.
Digital product — nothing ships, and no refunds once downloaded.
