Cavaletti spacing?

[el_Snowflakes]

Hi all,

Im doing a jumping compeition show so want to incorporate some exercises that will help me and my horse and also to help her engage her backend and come off the forehand. How many human steps should cavaletti be when approaching at trot? also for canter how many human steps should they be apart as i will try this as she improves?

many thanks

 

[Business]

Grids are good and spacing depends on how big your horse is and how big your strides are. Generally for bounces it's 4 human strides and for a one stride between fences it's 8 human strides. Once you go over the first one she will canter anyway.
As a general rule you allow 2 human strides for take off, 2 human strdes for landing and 4 hunam strides for every non jumping horse stride.

So a bounce is 4 human strides
and one horse non jumping stride is 8 human strides
and two horse non jumping strides is 12 human strides as a rough guide.

Always start by jumping one and add each fence sequentially.

 

[nirikina]

My pony is 14.1hh and I use 3 strides between poles which works for trotting and cantering/bouncing.

You can obviously adjust the distance depending on if you want to lengthen or shorten.