Advice needed on horse rushing/diving at fences

skybluepinko

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Just wondered if anyone had had a similar problem. My mare is always quite a quick jumper cross-country, but she's neat and safe. However, yesterday I took her to a BE100 and she dived at a few of the smaller fences, throwing herself over really quickly - and it was a little bit scary!

I'm pretty sure she was just over-familiar with the track and therefore going a bit too fast - she was being strong - but I wondered if there might be some sort of pain going on? Or bad ground? Or my fault?

She was fine for the combinations, probably because I got her right back, but at the basic fences it just wasn't her usual style.

Has anyone had anything like this?
 
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