Landing disunited

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My horse lands disunited probably 80% of the time.

She is quite spooky and so has a tendency to over jump or throw herself at fences which I am working on, but it suddenly struck me - would you be worried by this? The disunited bit I mean? She is a big horse so there is lots of her to organize!

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It should be corrected by schooling in time. Is she young?

Landing disunited will unbalance her, so it will slow you up in jump offs if you compete her. But I would only worry about it though if you were competing XC when the loss of balance would increase the risk of a fall after the fence. If you are XC schooling it should be OK as you have time to look at the landing side ground and help her to sort herself out. It might help her to learn to organize too!
 
It can be an indication of them being wrong behind. Not always though, and it may just be her way of balancing herself on landing
 
Shay said:
It should be corrected by schooling in time. Is she young?

Landing disunited will unbalance her, so it will slow you up in jump offs if you compete her. But I would only worry about it though if you were competing XC when the loss of balance would increase the risk of a fall after the fence. If you are XC schooling it should be OK as you have time to look at the landing side ground and help her to sort herself out. It might help her to learn to organize too!
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Have you had many that did it and grew out of it (or didn't but were otherwise not bothered)? I've found it quite an unusual problem. I've had some young horses that do it occasionally if they over jump and land in a heap but getting them in the habit of landing and going forward usually sorts it.

It's impossible to tell without seeing but, frankly, if everything else was reasonable - riding, footing etc - and the horse was doing it more often than not and not improving with work, yes, I might be getting a bit concerned. At least enough to have it checked out. Have you had another rider on? What does your instructor say? Does she also do it loose/on the longe?
 
Thanks for the replies, and yes I was worried more that it was a sign of an underlying lameness/issue rather than about making up time etc. my instructor and knowledgeable friends don't seem bothered by it, and I am super sensitive when it comes to lameness so hope I would pick up on it... It's just a bit random and frankly a bit frustrating as at least a couple of times a round it's back to trot and then off again (she doesn't do changes very naturally).. I guess it could be a big horse struggling with sorting herself out? And not having the balance or strength to get herself coordinated? She is rising 10 so not a youngster but fair to say she is reasonably green and only just getting used to her size ...
 
What does she do if you really concentrate on riding her forward when you land, even using the stick if she dwells and comes off your leg?

How much riding has she had? Is she fit to be jumping? How do other horses jump for you?

I'd want an experienced eye on the situation. If the horse was 4 I'd probably be pretty relaxed about it but at 10 I'd be wanting to get to the bottom of it, even if she is low mileage.

I had a little think and I did have one that routinely landed cross cantering but she had known issues and had routine hock injections. When the injections were wearing off the first thing to go was the lead change one way, closely followed by the disuniting. Getting her hocks done always sorted it so I'm pretty confident that was the issue.
 
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