Horse Judging: Terms for Oral Reasons, UNL

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• Tucked his knees tighter to his chest • Kept his knees more parallel to his chest • Jumps with his hocks more together • Knees higher up under the chin • More correct in his takeoff, rating his fences more correctly • More nearly jumped the center of his fences • Met the fences with more rhythm • Had a more desirable line between the fences • Pushed off of his socks more effectively having more drive over the fences • Squarer in his departure • Had more style over the fences • His takeoff and landing points were equidistant from the center of the jump • Possessed more depth drive and impulsion from behind to be lifted in his withers and steady over his top line as he took the rails in stride with a rounder bascule with more ideal undercarriage having more tuck in his knees and hocks • More authoritative over fences and transitioned more subtly to the stop • Equivalent with take off and landing • Square approach to fences • More evenly spaced in the approaches and departures • Excels in this class for his quality on the flat and over fences

• Tuck • Arch • Soared • Tighter tuck

Faults

• He lacks bascule over the jumps • Too deep in the takeoff • Long in his takeoff spot • Chipped in • Inverted back over both fences • Left early for both fences

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