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Hi seeing the borde Hill post below have seen about the coffin in the intro. What is the coffin like here? have never had a problem at ditches but earlier in the year did the ardingly riding club event at SOE and got eliminated at the first part of the coffin there and it really upset pony, became really cautious to any solid fence he could see through and took about 4 xc schooling sessions to get him back to normal. So does anyone know how the coffin at borde hill compares to the one at SOE as also have pulborough and tweseldown coming up so dont really want to upset him.
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Do you mean the coffin in the quarry at Ardingly???

The one at Borde Hill in the spring was a roll top about 3 strides to a ditch. The ditch itself isn't big but it had a telgraph pole on the floor in front of it and was on an angle from the roll top.

Tbh the main problem with the fence is that the first 7 fences were running away from the start and then directly next to the warm up, you then turned away from collecting ring and down to the coffin. The roll top caused more problems than the ditch itself, although my baby horse was at his first event and did the roll top and got caught out at the ditch. He isn't ditchy and has jumped loads of ditches before and since then with no problems so i think it was mostly about going away from the warm up again....

Compared to SOE the ditch is much smaller than that in the quarry at SOE and the roll top in was about 2'9 but nice and solid.

Not sure if that helps or not?!?! I will be riding VERY positively towards it with a few reminders before and after the roll top!!!
 
To add to what AR said about the ditch at BH, I'd say that it's not as wide as the one at Ardingly, nor as deep.

The horse can't really tell that it is a ditch until it has got over the roll top, because of the telegraph pole in front of it, so really you can just treat it as an open ditch, with the ground slightly sloping down to it.

I knew the people commentating at the Spring BH, and they said that 95% of the people who had trouble there, was because their horses were napping back to the start, and many actually didn't get over the roll top which was a few strides in front of the ditch.

Pulborough's coffin is pretty shallow from what I remember, and on a perfect stride from the rail in front, on flat ground.

And Tweseldown, well, you never know what jumps are going to be on the course!!
 
thanks, its was the quarry one at SOE he took a dislike too, just would not go over the 1st part into it, think he just got there and peered over to it straight into the ditch down the hilll! He's been fine at all half coffins with a ditch then a fence but apart from the SOE havent come across a fence before a ditch in any intros yet so not sure how it will go!
 
I wondered if they might move the roll top to the other side of the ditch as it'd make for a kinder fence and the idea is not meant to be to catch people out at intro. We'll see!!!

At Pulborough the intro only has a half coffin which is a nice small ditch to log near the end of the course, jumps very nicely.
 
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