Agh i give up - with video of why

sounds like he should be a mare!!! my mare sounds just like him one day she'll jump 3ft double clear next she wont jump at all well. oh and doesnt like sandbags!!! she also ducks left and its soooo unexpected i usually fall off. i think its either lack of experience or hes testing you or he needs to jump bigger needs a challenge but then what do i know.

good luck
 
First of all lovely horse. My inital thoughts watching the trotting video is that he isn't sound on his right hind.

Second, watching the BN video he is jumping so big and is not wanting to touch anything that I think he is scarying himself jumping big. Sometimes he might get a good confidence on and jump and then one jump might frighten him or give hima flashback and BANG he scares himself witless.

Is it curable? In my honest opinion you can take him back to basics and he will jump well but he will never probably be 100% reliable.

Bloody nice horse though! I wondered if he'd been tipped up at one point watching how extravagant he is over a fence.
 
Cluedo - Yes he is nice and as an amateur that cannot afford mega money horses i think i am lucky to have a horse with his obvious ability but i got him in budget as a quirky sod!

Juno - i understand completely about different in forwardness between show and yesterday. The problem i have is he is naturally forwards at home and he was yesterday too with the wind and i have the same problem as you with broncing after a fence every now and then! So i am trying to keep him calm - in theory less chance of me hitting the deck.
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I am going to call my vet on monday to have a chat and see what is recommended for him.
 
Does he always jump well at some venues, or is it totally random? Your leg position is brilliant btw - that is what kept you in the plate. Little git. How do you ever trust a horse that will swerve like that with no warning (or reason). And THEN do his best to get rid of you when he knows you are slightly unseated. He is behaving like a young horse and at 8 years old bloody well ought to know better.

Perhaps he needs to do some fun jumping i.e. hunting or cross country. They don't need to be enormous cross country jumps, just something that he may enjoy and get him going forward more and looking less.
 
He is most definately bi-laterally lame behind and therefore sore in his back as the back is not moving in the right way on the trotting video. Also in the competition video he is not jumping naturally- he is overjumping everything by about 2/3 feet and it is a rather odd up& down jump rather than a smooth up and over jump. I can almost sort of feel the huge amount of effort he is having to produce to try and get himself over what are small fences.Its not easy for him at all.

Personally I wouldnt force the issue any longer, he needs a full lameness work up. You ride very consistently and very well so its hard to believe that 18 months later he is still behaving in such an inconsistent manner- any other naughty youngster, without any pain would be jumping like a dream by now with that sort of good riding. Anyway, apart from anything else it would be good to have a loss of performance work up just for peace of mind.
 
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