At 04:21:14 on 31.07.10, Skirt13596 wrote:
I have finally figured out the problem for my horse and I jumping, I was having a jumping lesson with a 2* Eventing rider who was helping me, I was going really well until my horse decided to bolt to the second fence in a 6 stride double, my first reaction was to pull her away from the fence and do a large circle and slow her down. The next time I did it I went over the first fence and went back to 3-point heading to the second, Skirt did a lovely slow canter for me and then took off half a stride early at the jump and jumped it really big, then she took off heading right, I lost a stirrup but was still in the saddle, she then made a sharp turn left and started bucking, I fell off and landed on my hip, but my confidence wasn't effected at all, I was still confident to get back on. I think the problem is that my mare wants more height so I'm going to continue practicing at about 50/60 cm instead of about 30 and hopefully I will see better results :)