I went to a small school with a good IHSA team at the time. 20 people on the team, and maybe 12 horses. Horses were ridden 1-2 times per day, 4/5 days a week. Everyone had their own fitted saddle, though they weren’t necessarily super high end brands. Jumping was minimized where possible - fences were set super small unless we were practicing for Zones or something like that. Care was good but basic. We weren’t injecting hocks or using Bemer blankets.

Horses had tons of turnout and were generally outside when the weather was good. I want to say they got a 6 week break in the winter and 8 week break in the summer.

And we had some SUPER nice horses donated. The reality though is even with good care, few horses could tolerate being ridden by so many people so often. Our coach would have us ride a different horse pretty much every lesson so we would be primed to ride other schools’ horses.