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adjustability was an issue at first.
FTD: So, how did you deal with that? What exercises have you learned, or created, to teach a big strided horse to “come back to you”?
KB: I learned first with this horse that if I rush him, it’s all over. Then, my trainer (Olympian Derek diGrazia. in this case) would put placing poles in front of the jumps, or just placing poles and no jumps, to help him - and me - focus on the striding.
FTD: And then there's the accuracy issue: how do you teach your horse, and yourself, about being exactly on a line to a fence?
KB: That is the difference between the lower levels and the top. Accuracy. At the lower levels, you have some margin for error - but, as I learned at Rolex, at the top level, you can’t be off even an inch.
The most simple exercise is the best one for accuracy - all you do is set up poles on the ground, again, just poles on the ground. Striped ones art* best, but you can also use a marker or tape to mark them.
Set up a “course” of poles, then ride them exactly - say, the third from left blue stripe on the first pole, turn, then the first from left red stripe on the second pole bending line to the center white stripe on the third pole. These are exercises anyone can do - you can’t “mess up” or get hurt. You can even do it at the walk or trot, with
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