If you're aspiring about competing in show jump events or about following mixed training, you need a horse which has no inhibitions about jumping solids. I have yet to see any course aside from 'Green As Grass' with less than one solid. Most courses actually have about 6 solids.
The term solid refers to a brick wall, a flower box, a gate, a roll top or any solid object that's either placed underneath the rails or essentially replaces them. These objects can make most horses twitchy.
Trainers need to realise that horses can't be made to defeat fear in a day. The natural instinct of horses is such that they have an inclination to take to flight when facing potential threats. They bring the same instinct to jumping: if they are twitchy about jumping some solid because they are uncertain of what lies behind, they are going to refuse to do so.
By continuing with pointing your pony at solids without necessary initial training, you are impressing on him that his instinctive reaction to refuse and run out is acceptable behavior. It is rather like that famous line about testing out things continually in identical fashion and expecting different results each time.
You begin by gaining a understanding of why horses fear solids. Because they are not able to see what awaits them on the opposite side of a solid, horses are twitchy about jumping it. Solids aren't like rails, which permit a view of the other side, even if it is a a little impaired view.
Some horses could also find the coloring of the solid frightening.
It is obvious that before it's possible to get your pony to jump solids comfortably, you have to teach him that there is nothing threatening behind it. Your pony must be sure that he is not going to run into some monster or a bobcat or mountain lion on the other side of the solid.
The term solid refers to a brick wall, a flower box, a gate, a roll top or any solid object that's either placed underneath the rails or essentially replaces them. These objects can make most horses twitchy.
Trainers need to realise that horses can't be made to defeat fear in a day. The natural instinct of horses is such that they have an inclination to take to flight when facing potential threats. They bring the same instinct to jumping: if they are twitchy about jumping some solid because they are uncertain of what lies behind, they are going to refuse to do so.
By continuing with pointing your pony at solids without necessary initial training, you are impressing on him that his instinctive reaction to refuse and run out is acceptable behavior. It is rather like that famous line about testing out things continually in identical fashion and expecting different results each time.
You begin by gaining a understanding of why horses fear solids. Because they are not able to see what awaits them on the opposite side of a solid, horses are twitchy about jumping it. Solids aren't like rails, which permit a view of the other side, even if it is a a little impaired view.
Some horses could also find the coloring of the solid frightening.
It is obvious that before it's possible to get your pony to jump solids comfortably, you have to teach him that there is nothing threatening behind it. Your pony must be sure that he is not going to run into some monster or a bobcat or mountain lion on the other side of the solid.
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