jumping help please...sharp horse

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i have a V. Sharp jumping horse/pony/donkey who hauls me into the jumps. he goes well on the flat nice and round bends, flexes etc but as soon as he is turned into the jump, its head up in the air and then its job to hold him into the fence, he doesnt scare me when he does but it looks awfull and messy. As soon as he has landed he comes straight back to me. Ive tried bounces to try and curb this but he has a very DIRTY stop and he can bounce bounce and stop dead. Its as if it its too much hard work he cant be arsed (has his own mind) any ideas as what i can do. it sounds silly but the bigger the fence the more he slows listens and pops it nicely, but im just starting with BN. thanks folks
 
my suggestion is taking it right back to basics, try poles, walking, trotting etc try walking to a fence, also a great tip is to ride a 20 metre circle incorporating the fence, so circle round it, in front of it, turn towards itand continue the circle, you need to get him so that he doesn;'t assume everytime he turns to a jump he's jumping it, then he should have less inclination to rush
 
Exactly what I was going to suggest!! Canter a 20 metre circle and have a jump at B or E and never jump it until the horse is settled on the circle, even if that means not jumping it at all in any one session.
 
Time and patience schooling and warming up at competitions. I would do lots of approaches and as soon as he rushes you circle and keep circling till he comes in calmly. This can sometimes take ages for the penny to drop. If they rush/get excited you grind to a halt as soon as they begin to rush and make them stand. Turn away and approach again if they rush grind the to a halt as soon as you can they have to learn to wait. This is very effective. My horse pisses off on landing so he has to be ground to a halt as soon as he lands and after just a couple of times of doing this he pays attention and is much more rideable.
 
Sid has a tendency to do this and particularly over smaller fences - part of it was me though as I started to tense in anticipation of the 'charge for the fence' and it became self-fulfilling

I did lots of circling & really focussed on regulating the pace of the canter - tried to treat the fence as incidental...

(also upped the bitting slightly to a 3 ring which has helped!)
 
agree with sallyg84 thats what my instructor tell's to do. my mare 22 years old. was like changing habbit of a life time. we also used ground poles which took poppy some time to get used to! fell over quite a lot! but once she relised they were there she shut up and got on with it. the bigger the jumps the more she slow's up and thinks about things.
 
I would do lots of schooling round fences, so Id pretend to approach the fence but be on a circle etc. I know some people pull their horse up a few strides from the fence if they start to charge on but I personally hate this approach as I think this just encourages refusals.

Id go back to doing little fences from trot, dont let him canter (if you can!). Even do it from a walk if he's being that stupid. Or canter round the corner to it then maybe 5 strides away, come back to trot to jump it. Just little things to make him listen to you all the way to the fence.
 
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