Striding for 16hh

[SarabiTheHedgehog]

I am going to be loaning a 16hh horse, Murphy. Only thing is, I'm used to 14hh, being 5ft.

So keeping in mind I am 5ft, how many (human) strides should a 16hh horse stride be, in canter and trot?

I need to know how many strides you would do between trotting/cantering poles and bounces/doubles, he does have particularly large strides in trot, his canter is a little more collected. I hope I have made sense haha? x

(Also, not entirely sure if this is the correct thing to post this is, I wasn't too sure ;-

 

[Jnhuk]

You need to learn how to stride at 3ft so your height doesn;t matter.

For jumping in canter, you want 4 x 3ft human steps per horse stride and remember to add 2 x 3ft for your take off and landings.

 

[Farma]

I am going to be loaning a 16hh horse, Murphy. Only thing is, I'm used to 14hh, being 5ft.

So keeping in mind I am 5ft, how many (human) strides should a 16hh horse stride be, in canter and trot?

I need to know how many strides you would do between trotting/cantering poles and bounces/doubles, he does have particularly large strides in trot, his canter is a little more collected. I hope I have made sense haha? x

(Also, not entirely sure if this is the correct thing to post this is, I wasn't too sure ;-

for trot poles I work on about 4ft for my 16hh horse which is 1 and 1/2 of my normal walking paces. If you have poles fanned out around corners you can put the 4ft in the middle therefore the inner part of the fan you can use for colleted and the outer part to lengthen the stride.

For 1stride doubles I work on about 24ft which in walking paces is 8 walking paces (2 for landing, 4 for stride and 2 for take off) this will need to be adjusted for small fences or if you feel you wont have a forward enough canter bring it down to 21ft (7 walking paces) and see how it feels.

 

[smja]

There are 16hh horses with big strides, and there are 16hh horses with little strides. The challenge is to be able to alter the stride size of both types - so your pole/jump distances would depend on what you are trying to achieve with them.

 

[SarabiTheHedgehog]

Thank you both, very helpful! I'll give 8 strides a go. x

 

[nato]

If you're competing you'll have to adjust to the strides the course builders use - 12ft. As other posters have said, stride at 3ft per step and it's 4 of those for a canter stride. 2 for take off and landing if you're adding jumps (no take off and landing for polework or bounces). I use four back to back steps for trot poles.