Ignite Your Equitation

What should you do if your horse refuses?   You know it can happen. You were balanced and had a great pace to your first fence. You hit your spot and continued on to your second fence. Unfortunately your horse has a different idea! Instead of neatly tucking up his legs (or her legs) to complete the jump s/he veered around the jump sending you sideways and almost into the jump. WHAT GIVES? You’ve jumped that high, the course isn’t difficult. We’re going to review what is going on and what you can do in the show ring. Why is my horse refusing? First things first. Why is your horse refusing? It could be a whole bunch of reasons. Maybe s/he is sore somewhere. Hooves, legs, shoulders, back, mouth. This means you will have to do some investigation. Maybe you are interferring with the horse. Getting left behind, pulling on the mouth, getting too far ahead, Maybe the horse doesn’t feel comfortable, the jumps are too high, too white or too many flowers. Maybe you are not committed to going over the j

In today's podcast we will go over 7 things you should do in your equitation over fences class. As usual Subscribe, download and comment on my podcast. If you're tired of riding around in circles, quite literally and looking for your riding to be transformed, send me an email and you can get your own personal program designed for you. Are you ready to get started? These are simple things that the judge would like to see and could make the difference between getting a ribbon and placing and not. this is the most important thing. Get to all of the fences. No Refusals, run outs or disobediences. No chips, and no knock downs. Sounds simple enough. There is nothing a judge hates more than seeing a competitive athlete mess up a great equitation round because of a major error. No chips. That means you have to meet each fence correctly. You should, as a rule of thumb, leave the ground for the jump, the height of the jump away. That means if you are jumping a 3 foot fence then the horse should leave the ground ap

As a Hunter/Jumper judge we get to watch lovely horses all day. Sometimes however, things may not go according to plan! Here are a collection of a few fun and interesting SHORT HAND codes some judges have used to help them determine who should be placed at the top of the score card! Please comment, download and subscribe to our podcast on iTUNES and Stitcher Radio  

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