How To Teach a Young Horse to Jump

As a horse lover, I had always wanted a horse of my own from a young age. Finally, at the age of 13 my mother said I was ready to get a horse. My first horse was a 5 year old arabian mare. For those of you that don't know what an arabian is, let me just tell you that they are very spirited, especially if they are 5 years old. So training my horse to jump was quiet a challenge for me. This is how I taught her to jump.

Step one:

Make sure you have someone there either watching you, for safety reasons, or an instructor that has had experience with training young horses to jump. Once you have that, you must start at a very slow easy level. If you haven't introduced your horse to trot poles or anything off the ground then definitely set up a single trot pole and walk over, trot over, canter over, and once they are confident, add another pole.

Step Two:

Once your horse is comfortable with trotting over at least 4 trot poles and cantering through 2, it is time to introduce your horse to a cavolette. A cavolette, is just another word for a small x jump. They are normally white and can be flipped four different times to raise the pole off the ground 6inches at a time. Put a cavolette at the end of four trot poles, and walk, then trot your horse through.

Step Three:

After they are trotting over the cavolette and trot poles with confidence, remove the trot poles and try raising the cavolette to the higher level and continue trotting through. If your horse does this a few times with confidence you have successfully built a solid foundation for teaching your horse to jump. It is important to end the day after not doing to much because you don't want to overwhelm your horse on the first few days.


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