Skinnies are a common bogey fence in eventing, but what makes them so difficult? We ask Olympic medallist and five-time Burghley winner Ginny Elliot and BE UKCC level 3 accredited coach Cameron Beer for their help, advice and top tips on how to stop your horse running out at skinny jumps on a cross-country course so that you stay straight as a die between the flags.

“The ability to control the body of the horse with the lower leg is the most important part of being able to jump a skinny,” says Ginny, also a former world and European eventing champion.

“Your leg aids need to be really good and responded to by the horse – that’s the only way you can control the horse’s body.

“If I put my right leg on the horse should go left, if I put the left leg on the horse should go right, and it sh

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