Horses brain falls out jumping

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My horse adores her jumping and is very keen but is incredible tense and loses her brain. If you bring her back to trot after a canter then she’ll get incredible tense and almost trot like a hackney type (she’s an ISH, no Hackney in her)
She’ll start a session calm and jumps the first few fences nicely but then gets more and more tense and rushes to fences, tucks her neck in and leans down on the bit etc.
When I jump her, it almost seems as though she has so much adrenaline that she can’t hear anything and her brain just goes.
She’s been checked by the vets and has had injections so medically is completely sound, no ulcers.
She’s a complete Labrador on the ground!
Just wondered if anyone else has had a horse that’s brain falls out when jumping and what they did to overcome this?

Have tried calmers/titanium masks… no luck.
Tia x
 
I know you say she has been checked by the vet but it definitely sounds like a pain issue. Has she been xrayed for kissing spine and had hocks xrayed? What is she like in other areas of your riding, ie hacking out?
I had a horse years ago who went through a phrase of this and I went to a very good trainer who told me the horse had lost his confidence which made sense as we had had an awful lesson with a crap trainer which ended badly. I stepped right back and after a few weeks he came right.
It doesn't really sound like you horse adores jumping more like she finds it incredibly stressful. I wouldn't do much more jumping until get on top of this.
 
I rode an ex grade B showjumper for years who was young enough that he should have still been out competing - but take him in the school with even a cross pole up and his brain would fall out.

We didn't have the diagnostics then but if I look at photos I suspect he'd have been diagnosed with kissing spine. I think he loved to jump but it hurt.

Went on to have a cracking life and lived into his 30s - just not jumping.
 
We often interpret that whizziness as keenness, so often they're running from discomfort, or dysfunction (making them feel unsafe in a fundamental way).

I make these two recommendations so often it feels like I think they're the answer to everything - they're absolutely not, but they're both going to take you down a route of learning as much as they're helping you to utilise gentle work to help or assess (or both) the horse.

Slow Walk Work group on FB, start with featured posts, and read the posts of others

Equitopiacenter.com - resources to help you assess posture and toplines and to work out where to start with vet, bodywork and/or groundwork.

Trainer and training is seldom the place to start, so often it IS compounding the original issue, but simply adding in some different ridden work, rather than changing some of the fundamentals, isn't getting to the issue.
 
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So many questions need answers ..is the mare young and new to jumping? Has she been properly taught to jump? Is she in pain anywhere which becomes more unbearable? Are you riding the course well and in balance? An experienced trainer working with you ought to be able to pinpoint a problem and solution if the vets have ruled out pain.
 
No idea where you are in the world but go have a lesson with Sean Coleman if you can. I've never seen such a drastic difference made so quickly, again with someone who thought her horse loved jumping. They are much happier jumping now.
 
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And I just spotted the "has had injections" which I missed first time around. Hopefully one day we'll realise that meant compromised movement patterns leading up to that point and stop saying "now sound, no issues" as clearly there are issues, almost as sure as night becomes day. Needing injections means the whole body has been compensating but instead we get a treatment plan that is to relieve pain the joint, perhaps a bit of physio (and God forbid something like a Pessoa), and then just move on to get the horse fit again, without, usually, changing anything. I stick to my original advice, wishing the OP luck, if they come back to read.
 
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