My horse is 8 year old, he has been competing for years but for a while he has been diving at fences and unless I hold him until the last stride. And even when I do I have to hold him off his jump or else he will flatten over it. he ha a lot of ability but this is holding him back, I need help...
Thanks for all the great replies, I will be trying these to see if he improves. I think first I will get his back scanned before I continue with the exercises just to make sure he is not hurting and compensating for it by drifting.
Here is a video of him jumping a 1m30 yesterday at a local...
I use v poles alot on him, they really improve his shape but still when the v poles get took away he still drifts to the side, as for the slanted pole I think that works similar to v poles without the second pole again that helps his shape but does not fix the problem.
Hi there,
My name is Luke Campbell, I have a 6YO bay stallion that I show jump here in Ireland. He didn't start show jumping until he was a 5YO and since he has started jumping he has had a problem of jumping to the left hand side of the jump going down doubles and combinations. Does anyone...