Show jumping is one of the most common equestrian sports due to its accessibilty. It holds a bit more excitment than dressage, especially for younger and guttsier riders. But with there being show jumping compeitions of different levels all over the country, it is also really easy to get involved.
Whether you enjoy visiting your local competition venue for a clear round class or if you’re on the international circuit, show jumping is quick and easy to understand. You jump the jumps, trying to leave them all up and often in the quickest time. The scoring systems can change class to class, but the basics stay the same.
In this section you will find everything from new pole and jump exercises to give you and your horse something new to think about as well as industry news and competition results.
Yesterday was the final stage of Badminton Horse Trials and with the leaders being close, with just a fence between most, every mistake mattered! Oliver Townend, who had been leading on both of his horses at one stage in the competition had a pole and 3 seconds in hand as…
Yesterday we had the Championships for the evening Show Jumping classes we have been doing at our local equestrian center for the past 4 months. It was fantastic to go to our first proper championships ever! And while we didn’t get quite a sash, I am so pleased with what…
Yesterday we had our final evening showjumping before the championship next month. We had already qualified for our class at our last outing in June. So the pressure was off and I was just aiming to have a few more confidence building rounds. Due to the heat, we hadn’t done…
Last month we entered our sponsors EquiMind’s new Jumping with style class. And I am pleased to say we managed to come joint 2nd out of about 7, which isn’t bad going at all. Building our confidence I’m sure many of you know that recently me and Scottie have been…
Yesterday we had our first jumping show in over 2 years. It was at our local equestrian center who were holding their first of their summer show jumping series. The warm up I arrived really early with plenty of time until the first class. So I wandered over to have…
After our fantastic cross country lesson at the weekend, I am already looking forward and making plans for the rest of the year. One of our local equestrian centers has advertised a show jumping competition on a Thursday afternoon. I’m pleased to say that next Thursday we will be attending…
A little while I wrote a guest post for Bridle and Bone about how I was getting ready to face some potential demons around jumping after my fall and our time away from jumping. Since that post I have started to realise just how my confidence has been affected and…
Our sponsors EquiMind have recently announced that they will now be hosting a jumping class to run alongside their other online competitions. With me currently really focusing on getting our jumping back up to scratch, this has come at a perfect time for us! Jump the same course as others…
After a very close competition at Badminton with it almost seemed guaranteed to see Oliver Townend taking home first place on one of his top 5 placed horses, Jonelle Price rode a beautiful clear round for the win! First female to win Badminton in 11 years! Jonelle Price &…
Last weekend we had our first jump since camp. For those of you who haven’t been following us for that long, I will quickly catch you up as to why this is a fairly big deal! Run of Bad Luck I had a nasty fall at Riding Camp in June…
On Friday Olympia’s Race Night kicks off with the return of the Markel Champions Challenge where the flat jockeys take on the national hunt jockeys in a team relay show jumping competition in aid of the Injured Jockeys Fund. The rivalry between the jump jockeys and the flat jockeys is…
I am super excited to tell you all that I will be attending Olympia Horse Show on Friday the 15th as PRESS! I will be there all day bringing you the highlights of the horses and the fabulous shopping on offer. However, I am particularly excited about the evening performance,…
When I first got Scottie he didn’t refuse anything. Now we regularly have refusals. I don’t remember the last time we jumped and we didn’t have at least one refusal. However, I don’t consider this a set back in our training, if anything I see this as a big improvement.…
This year 4 of the 61 horses competing at the prestigious 4* event the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials were ex racehorses (who I introduced to you in a previous post) and there were at least another 2-3 purebred thoroughbreds, with Indy 500 being bred for racing, but never made…
After my frustrating attempt at filming our dressage test this month for EquiMind I decided to cheer myself up by taking full advantage of my Sponsored rider’s 50% discount and enter some of their fun photo showing classes. Despite being a bit of fun, they are still judged by traditional judging criteria…
