Stop your horse rushing with this one-jump exercise
- Set up two ground poles and one jump as shown
- Canter a couple of 20m circles over either of the ground poles
- Ride the line of pole, fence, pole, with four strides between each
- Raise the fence while maintaining four equal strides
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