Event riders: Which XC fences....

I love jumping the rider frighteners-
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I hate jumping steps up, especially out of water or big bounce steps like these-
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the only thing i really don't like is a step up and bounce over a fence out of water, cos it is so easy for the horse to trip and mess it up, even if you do everything right. i've seen some of the best in the world have stops at these, very annoying. luckily it isn't something you meet until A usually.
i don't really enjoy the big rider frighteners, although my horses usually jump them fine!
on my handy obedient mares, i've always enjoyed the really tricky, twisty, accuracy fences, as i knew i had nothing to worry about!
 
Ones which create a false impression - this from the front looked like an upright brush. My horse didnt realise it had a spread on it... He thought about doing the same thing the year before at this fence, this time we weren't quite so lucky although he just banked onto it and then bounced off the 2 sections of brush as you can see in the 2nd pic!

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Actually I dont generally like brushes anyway because my horse hates touching them so it can make them rather large :P

I do like rider frighteners though - they look good for photo's!
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I absolutely hated jumping this:

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Because if you see what happened here in '05 you can see why I was worried!:

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i hate rider frightners!! I don't like fences that the horse can't see properly.
what scares me the most though is a huge gapy trakner - but im scared of creating a problem if you know what i mean.

i love skinnies and drops though!
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also steps - i love the feel of power and the huge fences i love because it is a great feeling of scope
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I usually pick one fence on the course (usually the biggest one) and worry about it then ride for my life over it. My mare who is pretty good with scary and big fences then ends up balloning the fence usually making a fantastic photo. I like it when my bad fence is early on in the course as after we have cleared it i always feel fantastic
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I agree i much prefer the twisty courses i have a small compact mare who jumps them fab especailly combinations on teh curve to skinnys she locks on and off she goes just have to steer!
 
OP, the link to the drop in your post - fences like that are really easy to ride actually (unless there's a skinny at the bottom of the slope, of course!), once you've done a couple of decent drops you don't worry about them any more. there used to be one as you came off the very top of a hill on the I course at Highclere (no idea if they still use it!) and the first time i came to that one, it felt like jumping off a cliff, but the horse just popped down.
MagicMelon, if there's a fence on a course that creates a real false impression, i don't run. i've done this a few times and been vindicated every time.
i still remember the Barbour Zip, too... i was there (not competing) and walked the course, and that was a horrendously unfair fence, totally tricked a lot of very very experienced horses, about 10 in a row ended up on the floor iirc.
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I usually pick one fence on the course (usually the biggest one) and worry about it then ride for my life over it. My mare who is pretty good with scary and big fences then ends up balloning the fence usually making a fantastic photo. I like it when my bad fence is early on in the course as after we have cleared it i always feel fantastic
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I agree i much prefer the twisty courses i have a small compact mare who jumps them fab especailly combinations on teh curve to skinnys she locks on and off she goes just have to steer!

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Oh my gosh!
You're exactly like me..
I'm always worried about one or two (especially corners..euch!), but make damn sure on the approach that we're comitted & if it's at the beginning of the course then you can just enjoy the rest
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My pony is the same with skinny combos too, cause he sees what he has to do & I just steer & put in the the right place, then he jumps it
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I have a phobia of trakheners!!! I fell off at one a while ago then couldn't get him over it but I have jumped several since then, it's just in my head I'm scared! I also dislike corners even though I've never actually never had a problem at one, again it's just in my head. Jumps into water as well cause I got a dipping at the last event of the season even though it was a tiny log in! oops...
I love anything brushy and open ditches, coffins etc and big gallopy ones
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Riaseed007 nothing to do with the post, just wanted to say how much I like your horse! How is it bred?

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thanks
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He's clydesdale x tb. Out of a clydesdale mare by the tb poetic justice. He's a bit dinky though his mummy was 16.2 and his daddy was 17.2 but he turned out only 15.2! Perfect for me though, I couldn't handle him if he was much bigger! I love the cross though he's a fabby jumper and bloomin fast when he wants to be but I think the clydesdale gives a little bit of sainness (occasionally!)
 
I loathe set up fences especially corners and skinnys as it takes so much effort to get it right. I love old fashioned galloping courses where you can just keep coming at every fence.
 
Big tables are prob my biggy, the one you posted Boss makes me go
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Ditches can be scary too....but if they have a sloping fence behind leat you can normally kick on a bit nd hope for the best!! The thing that puts me off Weston 1* is that blooming huge brush/ditch fence
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I hate those hayrack fences stuffed with straw. I find the groundline offputting with the fence sloping towards you rather than away, like most spreads.
 
KatB, i was fence judging at that big ditch-brush fence (the 1* one) at Weston 3day one year. saw all sorts of riding at it, including appalling misses, frightening long ones, off a ridiculous angle (?!), fast and flat, trying to SJ it (?!!!), and every single horse jumped it absolutely fine! it was a proper eye-opener for me.
 
riaseed007 - you were at Fountain BSJA yesterday weren't you? I recognise the horse in your sig! Such a cute little dude!

Have to add - there is one fence which creeps me right out and which is stopping me doing a 2 day Novice locally which is at Burgie. Someones got a pic of them jumping it in their siggy, a huge trakhener with an angled top bar. Euch!!! HATE IT!
 
OOh, thanks for that Kerilli
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Makes me feel better, Weston would be our "local" 1* and hopefully (if) when we get to that stage it would be good to do but that looks so scary!!! But nice to hear it is pretty uneventful...
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Me too, I think that I realised quite early on that rider frighteners jump really well, and you get great photos from them!
This one is probably the last really big rider frightener I jumped it is only Novice, but it was our first Novice and the step up from our last PN was immense!
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KatB, as long as your horse jumps skinnies, you should be absolutely fine! Janet does like her skinnies, esp at 3-days... that ditch and brush jumped brilliantly all day, even scopeless horses jumped it easily!
(i got to know an Irish rider - former 4 star - who brought a very good N over for Weston 1* a few years ago. proper cocky little horse, went clear to the water and then did a very naughty run-out at one of Janet's skinny wooden barrel things. of course, having just run out at one, he then did the same again, still in naughty mode. the alternative was... another one. this lady got eliminated and was NOT happy. she knew she wasn't going to win, obv, but having come all that way and spent all that money, she just wanted him to have the experience of jumping the rest of the (lovely) course... and didn't get to do it. i could totally see her point!
 
I'm not an event rider (yet... maybe next season fingers crossed
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I have to join the 'i hate trackaners' club. My horse is still not 100% reliable about ditches and trackaners and I tend to shut my eyes and kick coming up to them
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I love steps though, both down and up and nice big galloping 'natural' fences like hedges and brush. I like water as well but probably only because I've not fallen off in it yet
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