Should I be disappointed or pleased!? SJ outing

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I took baby horse for her first SJ outing tonight. Thought we'd keep it small with 55cm and 65cm.

She was an angel as usual and was very calm with all the wizzy ponies!

She had 1 run out at a double in the 55, which I don't really mind because she hasn't done many doubles, but was really confident the rest of the round but had 3 down!

Then in the 65, thought I'd try cantering and she jumped much better but still had 3 down!

It was all the little uprights she was knocking down, she just seemed quite complacent and a bit over confident, you know when they don't really jump properly if there is nothing to look at?

So I'm pleased in a way because she was quite competent but I'm just a bit worried she might be one of those horses that don't have much respect for show jumps! But it's only her first go..so am I just expecting too much? She's never really been that clumsy schooling but she's changing quite rapidly and becoming much more forward.

what would you work on?
 
I think you should be chuffed, main thing is how she behaved. When I first got my 5 yr old he would happily knock jumps but after some lessons seems much more careful (6 now). No great advice as I don't compete but I have weekly lessons one flat then one jumping following week I have definately seen an improvement.

As first time out could be that she just was just a bit distracted, worth another couple tries at same venue to give confidence.
 
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Thanks Meesha. She was really good. Super calm and didn't look at a thing in the second round, just cantered round really confidently.😃
 
I would be pleased she was good, not spooky or stopping and go home to do more work on her technique, if she hasn't done many doubles I guess you have done very little gridwork as that is all about combinations, related distances and getting them using themselves correctly, mine all do a lot of very basic gridwork and rarely jump an individual fence schooling until they are well established, we usually have no problem with combinations as they are so used to doing the different grids at home.
I think I saw a video of you schooling her recently over a course and my first thought was she needs to do more grids and from memory you were trotting and asking her to canter a few strides out, the canter was rather flat, sorry if I am wrong it may not have been you, this will encourage her to rush if you are not careful, try and establish a good canter rhythm and if they drop back to trot just hold with leg on and let them learn to jump out of that rather than try to pick up canter on the approach which can be too much for a baby to cope with and they end up knocking poles as they don't react quickly enough to all the info they are trying to take on board.
 
Thank you. Yes that was probably me.

I was going for more of a trot before but then she is wanting to canter a couple of strides out. I tried to get more of an established canter today and she jumped some really nicely but then got in a bit of a muddle in parts.. Felt like I could have done with turning a ciricle after each line to re-group! Although particularly in the smaller class she wasn't in a muddle she just didn't really jump.

Will try some grid work. And getting a good canter into a fence.
 
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