**help needed please!!**

[Louiser92]

i have recently bought a gorgeous Dutch wb mare (8yo) out of wellington. She has a lot of abiltiy sj (clears 1.30 with ease) but has some habits that stop her fullfilling her potential.

1. she takes you to the jump, she gets into a long stride and cleard the jump by miles. she will allow check her but she then gets too close and is likely to knock it down, which she HATES.

2. on landing she picks up the speed and it is difficult to get her to listen. working with grids she starts off ok but he strides get longer and longer as she works down them, and she gets stuck by the last jump or two.

3. doing any 'y' shaped grids, or anything where you need a responsive horse for turning etc she struggles with. you ask her but she is too preoccupied doing a couple of really long strides, and by the time you turn her the approach is wrong and it scares her.

i have done trotting into fences, halting after (tried to anyway), grids and courses. any ideas would be greatly appreciated as im not used to a horse of her calibre!!

thankyou for reading, please please comment on any experiance, ideas, anything!

 

[kerilli]

it sounds as if you need to teach her a shorter, rounder, bouncier canter, and to use it all the way to the fence and away from the fence.
a good instructor will help with this.
in grids i'd have placing poles between the fences so that she can't open her stride without making things more difficult... but i'd do this with care, as it might worry her. flatwork is the answer, tons of work on her canter.
you haven't said what bit you have her in, it may be that you might need to use something stronger perhaps, at least for a little while, if she's not listening to you, although i'd only change this if the re-schooling isn't having enough of an effect.
hope that helps a bit.

 

[carthorse]

You need a good instructor with you when you jump and to keep this horse jumping well as your horse will lose confidence quickly if you are not quite up to the job at present.
I think what ever we suggest you would need experience to perform correctly. Best to get some really good instruction