• 2 months ago
Course Designer David Evans describes one of the combination jumps - three elements in and out of water - that will challenge horses and riders at the Blenheim Palace Horse Trials, 2024
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00:00About design earlier on, so a couple of years ago we put this water in, or three years ago for the
00:07first time, and we've had a corner in the water, you know, one year it rode well, the next it's
00:13not 50% well, 50% not so well, no reasoning behind it, we couldn't, a group of us got together,
00:19it was just one of those things, how the horses were jumping in. Now this year
00:25I wanted to change this, but this does in my head mean that I've got to change,
00:33like I said, the jigsaw earlier on and later on, but that's why sometimes it takes two or three
00:40years to put changes into effect, because one change means a lot of change all the way around.
00:46So this year, ignoring the log,
00:51that will be surrounded by trees, they jump a brush oxer, which will be 140 at eight,
00:58and then a brush nose, two strides to an angle log, one stride to another angle log,
01:05they'll all have brush on them, and the shoulders on the first one will be on the right hand side,
01:11second one left hand side, so it's all about control, accuracy, and the pace that they go
01:18into the water, will the horse listen to the rider and go back a little bit and pop in,
01:24or is it going to have a static landing, but I don't think they're long distances,
01:30I think they're just right for going into water, and as I said,