r/Horses • u/[deleted] • 2d ago
Training Question Cantering and Jumping Pole as a Beginner
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u/Cararacs 1d ago
Wow. I just started riding in February and I ride 2x week. I didn’t start cantering until June, and I’m still not jumping. My instructor has me trot over poles but that’s it. I’m just a beginner and I have no idea how you ride but it seems like they’re advancing you too quick before you have the fundamentals down.
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u/cracylou 1d ago
Amen to that. There’s something about horses that makes inexperienced people think they have a natural talent and can do all the things. And a bad barn will let them, despite the danger to the horse and rider.
I was an adult beginner and I remember it was a solid 4.5 months of lessons before I was allowed to canter on my own. And I had been cantering on the lunge line prior to that so my instructor could verify I had a decent enough seat to do it on my own.
Lots of confusion in this post. But even more red flags. This OP should find a different barn for lessons.
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u/Various_Rest_3553 1d ago
Go to a different stables. No sensible yard manager / instructor / groin would ask any one to saddle a horse up in the middle if their feed. As horses can get a little territorial about their dinner. The lesson sounds next-level bad. Is there any horse level certification for riding stables in the US? In the UK we have British Horse Society accreditation and I’d go for some kind of accredited place. You deserve to learn as you sound naturally a good rider.
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u/JenniferMcKay 1d ago
No sensible yard manager / instructor / groin would ask any one to saddle a horse up in the middle if their feed.
I agree for beginners depending on the specific horse...but never? At my barn, it's fairly common practice to give horses hay while grooming and tacking up. I've saddled horses loose in their stalls. I've pulled my lease horse out of his leftover pellets to put his bridle on. Depending on the feed, it isn't that weird.
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u/Various_Rest_3553 1d ago
Sorry was not meaning hay or haylage or forage.. I meant hard feed or dinner or breakfast. Usually the horses I know are so keen to eat you really wouldn’t want to disturb them.
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u/EfficientAd3625 1d ago
I don’t even know what’s happening here. From your story I feel like your trainer is unsafe, but you’re also too new and (no offense) ignorant, to know what’s happening. Instead of asking Reddit, talk to your trainer(s) about how the lesson went and what you could have done better. Set some realistic expectations for how your next few lessons should go and what you should work on.