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Sep 19 08 9:14 AM
Numnah wrote: TrueAntihero wrote: POLES. I have a horse that does exactly what yours does. If your horse has a bigger stride, I put a pole nine feet infront of the fence and nine feet after. It's 'giving them lines to color between'. The poles slow them down. Don't give her a long approach. To keep her settled, don't give her time to think about it. Another idea is to set up three or four fences in the arena and keep changing directions when you land, keep her guessing. Don't approach from the same place, just keep changing it up. That's pretty much what we do. I have the 'before' and 'after' pole. She will now come back to a nice trot after a fence with minimal head tossing. I don't want to involve circles as in my experience it encourages runouts. This could be just my finding and it could work great but I'm not prepared to take the risk. Last night we went in the field and I set up 3 in a row (not like a triple, like next to each other), which worked quite well as she didn't know which one we were going over. Thanks for all the tips I'm definately going to try alternating transition and direction, as true anti hero said. Two fat ponies, will defo try that one, thanks And yeah, it's basically how she's been taught. As she's done BSJA the point is to get over it, clear, and fast. And that's fine by me, I want her using her initiative etc, but I want her listening. Thanks again everyone, really appreciate it!
TrueAntihero wrote: POLES. I have a horse that does exactly what yours does. If your horse has a bigger stride, I put a pole nine feet infront of the fence and nine feet after. It's 'giving them lines to color between'. The poles slow them down. Don't give her a long approach. To keep her settled, don't give her time to think about it. Another idea is to set up three or four fences in the arena and keep changing directions when you land, keep her guessing. Don't approach from the same place, just keep changing it up.
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