**5. Conclusions**

Twelve weeks of training restrictions due to the COVID-19 sanitary emergency decreased the fitness level of puberal and adolescent female recreational horse riders. It could thus be suggested that home-based, unsupervised, and unattentively planned training can be insufficient to maintain their fitness level during home confinement.

**Author Contributions:** Conceptualization, S.D.; methodology, S.D.; formal analysis, E.C.; investigation, E.C.; data curation, E.C.; writing—original draft preparation, S.D.; writing—review and editing, C.C.; visualization, C.B.; supervision, S.D.; project administration, S.D. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

**Funding:** This research received no external funding.

**Institutional Review Board Statement:** The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by the Institutional Review Board of University of Rome "Foro Italico" (protocol code CAR-14/2019 and date of approval 21 October 2019).

**Informed Consent Statement:** Informed consent was obtained from all subjects involved in the study.

**Data Availability Statement:** Not applicable.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no conflict of interest.
