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Orgo-Life the new way to the future Advertising by AdpathwayTraining a young horse to jump is an incredibly rewarding process. However, it must be done with patience and consistency. Horses learn through repetition, so you need to be doing the correct exercises over a long period of time. Confidence is also key to the horse’s training. You are essentially asking them to do something that can be a little scary. Never be tempted to rush the process, or your horse may lose confidence, which will bring a host of problems that can often never be fixed.
In this exercise, we introduce the young horse and novice rider to a related distance on a curve. You start off by getting a feel for riding a curved line over cavalettis. Once you have a handle on that, you progress to a jump with a placing pole. that is related on a curve to another jump. When you doing that well, you’re ready to do the whole exercise. The exercise ends off with a standard related distance on a curve. And then you should be up and running and doing related distance on a curve like you’ve been doing them all your life lol
Watch the video on training the young horse below.
How to set it up
This setup isn’t super complicated, but again there is quite a bit to cram in up this side of your arena so you just need to keep that in mind.
Jump 1
So let’s start off with the jump most of the exercise revolves around. This vertical with a placing pole. Try to get it as close to the center line as you can. And quite close to the bottom end of your arena, because you need to leave the top end of the arena open to do all the big turns in. So it’s a vertical with a placing pole. And the placing pole is 2.5 paces away from the vertical.
Jump 2a
Then 22 paces away on a curve you set up this upright for a five-stride related distance.
Jump 2b
You then mirror this on the other side, but this time you build an oxer. It’s also 22 paces for the 5 stride related distance on a curve. You can go 23 paces for both these related distances if you have a big striding horse. But if you keep the jumps small 22 paces should be fine.
Jumps 3a and 4a
Next, you set up this related distance on a curve. It’s an oxer to a vertical and it walks the standard 24 paces for five strides.
Jumps 3b and 4b
You then mirror it on the other side, this time vertical to oxer, and it also walks 24 paces for the 5 strides.
Cavalettis
And finally, you set up these cavalettis at angles like this, so that you can ride a related distance on a curve between them. Mine rode 8 strides and the distance between them was 34 paces.
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