Description
Straightforward advice on how to safely negotiate a wide variety of cross-country obstacles.
Topics covered include:
- Tack and equipment
- Rider’s protection and safety
- Walking the course
- The start and the first fence
- Rhythm, balance, impulsion
- Types of cross country fences – trakener, bullfinch, open ditch, fence-ditch-fence, water fences, steps and banks, sunken road, drop fence, combinations, bounce fences, corner fences, shark’s teeth, triple bar and steeplechase fences.

