JOE ‘S JOURNAL
his month we have been away to Rouen, France. The three horses I took all jumped very well. All of the top horses are going to have a little break now and I will be spending time on the younger ones. I think I will also be doing a bit of
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teaching. I am very grateful to Gunner’s owner who gave me a great Birthday present last month and I now have a lovely heated jacket to wear when I am out in the cold. I am sure you will know that my Dad, Tim, was a very popular coach. He prided himself in being able to help people improve their riding. He enjoyed teaching and spent many hours helping me improve my skills on my pony club pony and later with various horses. I learnt a lot from Dad and use his books all the time to give me ideas for our horses. This exercise is one we use a lot and I have stolen this piece out of Dad’s Showjumping Solutions book as he explains it so well.
The Garage Exercise
This purpose of the exercise is to increase the control on landing.
1. Create an open ended box using two poles as tramlines on the landing side about 15m away from a simple fence to create a garage.
(See diagram)
2. Jump the fence and then bring the horse to halt within the garage poles. The poles give a guide to where to halt but will also help keep you straight.
3. You can also use a maker, such as cones, to define where to stop. Imagine that this is the edge of a cliff. Practise jumping the fence and getting the horse to stop within the area and then you can gradually bring it closer to the fence a
meter at a time.
4. Once you have got the horse stopping at about 10m aſter the fence, then practise not quite stopping, instead ride a half halt and carry on. Develop it from stop, which is the ultimate control, to creating the control and then move on.
It is important that the horse must not start his turn; he should wait for you as the rider to tell him which way to turn. This is especially true in older horse and ponies; they jump the fence and the automatically start their turn on landing so that they are accelerating in their corner which creates a lack of balance. This exercise will help keep them straight on landing too.
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