Kelsall event course (need a bit of help!!)

[han_mojo]

ok if any of you are going tomorrow and have walked it today there is a corner, which i have never done before, this is it

How on earth should i approach it? There is an alternative but i dont like the look of that!!
this is the alternative

we got eliminated on this jump last year but it has stones in this time instead of potatoes!

anyone got any tips????

 

[TiaPony]

Keep your right leg on and keep straight. Don't fuss about it - if you fuss, so will your horse and chances are that he won't mind the fence at all!

 

[han_mojo]

im gathering its a rider scarer than a horse scarer!

 

[DidiR]

Presumably he is more likely to run out to the right, than to stop dead?

Ignore the fact its blue, and is a corner, and approach it as if it were any other skinny... contain his canter, so he can't run out, and you will be fine!!

 

[monica987]

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[monica987]

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[hotellie]

personally i would want my stick in the right hand but ride more to the left. your horse could clear that corner even at the far side.

 

[monica987]

Oh sh!t - I cant tell the left from the right! I mean the side thats narrower!!
LOL

 

[brighteyes]

I'd have said right?!

 

[Eccles]

Its not big enough for you to have to worry about angles. If it was me, just as another poster said ride it like another skinny. Whip in your right hand and pick something in the distance to get your line right (that white fence post in the distance looks very well placed to me) and focus on that as soon as you turn to the fence. GL!

 

[han_mojo]

ok so its a kick and a scream "GET OVER IT!!!!!!!"

so will give you my report tomorrow when we get home!

 

[BBs]

As the fence stands I would aim for that white post in the background.
Meet the fence straight on pref have your horse coming in on left lead canter, ride it as if its a narrow box fence, holding the left rein a little to guide.
Just sit up, dont panic and keep riding strongly, but not fast.

 

[hotellie]

haha i thought you had got a bit confused but i thought i better say something so as not to confuse op.!!! haha

 

[han_mojo]

Thanx everyone!

 

[Eccles]

Yes, def agree with BBs, come in left lead canter and ride positively, you will wonder what you were worried about!!

 

[Baileysmidmag]

Ooo Im doin that 2morrow

You've made me all nervous

I actually recognised and know the people in the coner picture......how random is that!

 

[sw123]

Jump it bang in the middle like BBs has said, think of it like an oxer in the SJ its nothing more than that just jump the middle.

 

[Baggybreeches]

Yep BBs is right, dont even think about the corner ride a positive line towards the little post, and it will be fine, just think of it as a normal table that you need to be straight at.

 

[Lozz1uk]

Having sat in sight of this fence all day I'd say more than half the intro class ran out at least once at this corner. It caught an unbelievable number of people out.

 

[dollface]

We were at fence 7 and I was amazed to see how many riders didnt steady up for it hence loads having run outs. lesson learnt for many yesterday