Why are round pens only in America and Canada

They are becoming more common, at my old riding school they built one and at the yard I'm hoping to get my future horse on they have one but it's quite small.

I have one , a nice one and I don't like it. It is 60 feet in diameter and I only use to to contain a sick horse or one I am just breaking but as soon as I can get out of it I am out in the open. My leg has hit the sides way too often

I know that when Monty Roberts used one over there, people seemed to take to them. From what I know, they are getting more popular outside the USA

Yeah. Roundpens are really useful. They can be used for lunging, free lunging, lessons or riding a young horse for the first time.

Although I had a really bad fall in one once....so in that way they are not always so good.....LOL

Haha! I did too, busted up a helmet, hurt my back, knocked a filling out of a tooth. Mare I was riding tried to bolt (where was she supposed to go?!) and when I shifted my weight to the outside so I could pull her into the inside, I found out my saddle was loose the hard way. And I do mean hard.

I love round pens - partially because I really like to free lunge horses. I also stick new riders in one before I let them out anywhere else.

Ooooooh....ouch. That must have been really painful. My horse just tripped and gave a buck and I got thrown into the railing. LOL

im not in great britain and have never lived there, and have issues with building one as i have no land

Round pen is an enclosed area that can be used for horse training. You can easily create one if you have anywhere an empty area at your place or at the place u keep your horses. We also use round pen here in Greece. Horses learn better when they are and work isnide a circle. You don't have to use a very large round pen at first cause you must have the control of the horse. Your round pen should have enough space so the horse can canter in circle.

Personally I prefer a large rectangular arena where you can do things like leg yielding easier, I found it a lot harder to do leg yielding in a round pen as finding it easier to do serpentines and figures of eight.

It allows you to move and work with the horse from the ground at your command and at liberty (without being tethered to each other by means of a line) without endangering either of you as it allows you to maintain a safe distance from the horse while keeping the horse close enough to control the horse's movements. And yes, round pens are round so that the horse doesn't get stuck in the corners. I, personally, do NOT ride in them - ever. It's too confined for that. I prefer my first ride or two to be in a more open fenced area - I use the fence line to guide the horse in a straight line - when we reach a corner I'll guide it to turn and with the corner he has no problem understanding what I want as that is the only "open" way he can go. You get the idea. I also like to have enough room to get the horse back in control if things should get rough…you cannot do that in a roundpen without risk of smashing into the panels which isn't good for anyone.