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Need help finding a good bit for my jumping horse! WBxTB charging jumps?

My mare is a dutch wb x tb cross. 8 years. She's amazing jumping, but bolt towards and after jumps. I've tried a rubber pelham with bit converts, way too harsh, and i tried my dressage bit(loose ring french link) way too light. I've also tried a eggbutt copper mouth snaffle, she does better in that, but its just a little too light still. Also tried a kimberwick. which just failed. She wouldn't stop throwing her head when I applied pressure!

On the flat she is super easy and soft. the french link bit is almost too much. you never touch her mouth, does everything off seat, but she gets soooooo excited with the jumping. It's ridiculous. She has 51/2" or 53/4" mouth, so I can't really borrow my friends' bits cuz no one else have massive sized bits! haha But I need suggestions on what might work well for that?

tips on workouts and riding to help minimize her charging would be greatly appreciated also! :)

I would not try and haul her around by the mouth for jumps if she's so soft now. You will ruin her mouth and sense of softness on the flat probably too.

Gymnastic exercises work to teach the horse to help get to the jumps correctly and stay on pace. At 8, she too needs to develop her eye and sense of when is the right time to stay vs. go. I imagine she's still learning quite a bit at this stage.

Also, working on things with cadence that simulate real jumps like trot poles and cavaletti can be very effective at getting her used to seeing and negotiating small obstacles without the big excitement factor. Also making the jumps low and having her do trot in trot out jumps is a good idea if she's getting too excited.

Try to work on single jumps a lot and stopping and standing in the corner. She needs to relax after a jump. They tend to amp up when doing lines or jumps strung together. So stick with singles a lot until you get to near the end of your lesson. If she gets too excited for courses, you just need to wait until she's more used to things. No use in training a bad habit into her.

My instructor taught me that if my horse starts to gun at a jump to create a wall with my hands and stop. There was a caveat with that to prevent training horses to refuse jumps. I needed to be able to stop before the take off point. So it only works if the behavior happens more than several steps away from the jump. The other thing she would have me do is calmly circle and try again. These approaches need to be handled delicately as you don't want to create runouts and stops. But basically, you only do the jump if the horse is listening and in control.

Creating a shorter approach can work too but I've seen this backfire so wouldn't recommend that. Just do things that incorporate rhythm and relaxation and she should grow out of this.

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