What is a 5 ledge/7 ledge fence?

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So could anyone tell me what a 5 ledge or 7 ledge fence is please? My daughter had a jumping lesson that I couldn't watch and she said the instructor was talking about jumping 5 ledge and 7 ledge fences but we don't know what this is. I've googled but it hasn't brought up any info. Does anyone know how high these fences/jumps are please?

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So could anyone tell me what a 5 ledge or 7 ledge fence is please? My daughter had a jumping lesson that I couldn't watch and she said the instructor was talking about jumping 5 ledge and 7 ledge fences but we don't know what this is. I've googled but it hasn't brought up any info. Does anyone know how high these fences/jumps are please?

Thank you.
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In what context was she talking about a five ledge/seven ledge fence?

I am wondering if she was talking about strides between fences (related distances) and somehow this got lost in translation. But as far as I am aware a related distance can be no more than six strides (but I may be wrong on that) so that wouldn't make sense with her talking about the number seven.

I am really intrigued now.
 
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I've asked around horsey friends and no one seems to know what it means. It seems to be this particular riding school as I've heard another girl talk of jumping a 3 ledge straight fence and she also rides there, but no one else seems to understand it. My daughter said a girl told the instructor she had jumped the 5 ledge at the weekend and another said she had her first go at a 7 ledge fence. The instructor then said not to worry to my daughter (who is much younger than the others) and that she would soon be able to do this too as her jumping is coming on well now.

She wanted to look it up as she kept asking if they were big scary jumps or similar to what she had done before, but nothing came up on Google either.

My daughter doesn't normally ride with this group or instructor, so it might be a while before I see them again. However, when I do, I will certainly ask for clarification and let you all know. I'm sure it's just their terminology, where we would all call it something else, but it intrigued me too.

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Deeply intrigued. I can only think this is dialect for something (are you in the UK?) or the word has been misheard once and the altered word repeated among the kids so they all think its is a real word.

The only "ledge fence" I can find is a reference to a type of panel fencing. You don't jump that!
 
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1.35m according to the website. 5 would be 1.04m. Yes fairly chunky - but sometimes kids - especially at a riding school - can get very obsessed with jumping great heights and think that clearing it once in a lesson means they can run out and compete at that height. Or they exaggerate.... (Parent of a teen and PC mum...)

But I'm not saying I'm right about what this means. I'm just struggling to think of another explanation!
 
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Have they been jumping grids, OP? Or out on the XC course with a series of little steps?

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1.35m according to the website. 5 would be 1.04m. Yes fairly chunky - but sometimes kids - especially at a riding school - can get very obsessed with jumping great heights and think that clearing it once in a lesson means they can run out and compete at that height. Or they exaggerate.... (Parent of a teen and PC mum...)

But I'm not saying I'm right about what this means. I'm just struggling to think of another explanation!
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I guess I haven't met many RS ponies that would be jumping 1.35 ;) or even 1.04.
 
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I guess I haven't met many RS ponies that would be jumping 1.35 ;) or even 1.04.
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I've met many that think that they can jump a track of 3ft show jumps because they can daringly jump a single obstacle at 1.40m in the school at home!

Stuff related distances, turns, fillers and the like -of what importance of these ;)
 
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I've met many that think that they can jump a track of 3ft show jumps because they can daringly jump a single obstacle at 1.40m in the school at home!

Stuff related distances, turns, fillers and the like -of what importance of these ;)
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with a placing cavelleti before it too ;)
 
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I was also thinking that it was just something to do with the way this particular RS builds its jumps ( like the other posters idea about the wings, tho they do sound a bit big at '7 ledge'!!).
 
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I know a number of RS ponies / horses that can jump that sort of height once. Just not a course or with the technicalities. But OP's daughter has her own new pony. Previous posts have been about feed, rugging etc.

I'm still not saying I am necessarily right. I can't think of any other explanation.

OP - put us out of our misery! Is this what your daughter means?
 
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My daughter was having a jumping lesson on one of their ponies and she's nowhere near able to jump 1 metre plus. She's doing rounds of 60/70cm at the moment.

I have previously heard another student at this riding school talking about jumping a 3 ledge straight jump, so I don't think it is related to the xc jumping. I'm assuming it's something to do with the height of the pole, but then 7 ledge does seem ridiculously high as these other girls are only 10/11 years old and I don't think they're that experienced. Unless, as you say, they were exaggerating the truth.

I will certainly ask about this ledge business next time she has a lesson there and update everyone. I'm pretty sure it's a term they use at this riding school, but not anywhere else, although it would be helpful to use standard names for things so you can look it up at home.
 
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That makes sense with OP's last reference to a "straight" ledge fence as distinct from a cross pole as above.

Hopefully puzzle solved then!
 
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