Learn from one of the best in the world with Olympic event rider Lucinda Green in these cross country schooling videos including banks and ditches. Watch for the release of the next set of videos for the rest of this day of schooling that will include water.

Lucinda runs this group through Training level cross country exercises. They first warm up on fences of their choice, then Lucinda explains her meaning for ELBOW. Each rider begins from the start box on a short course of their own as a warm-up.

Riders now school walking up a small bank with no trot steps. Lucinda explains that it’s necessary for them to take their time with this exercise. They eventually go up and down the small bank and then add a fence with a turn before the bank, and a small fence downhill off the bank. Lucinda then ...

The next challenge is ditches. They start out by walking over a small ditch in both directions before moving on to a fence a few strides before the ditch. The next step is the ditch to a skinny to a fence, and then a skinny both before and after the ditch. The emphasis is on letting the horse lea...

This second half of the second day of a cross country clinic with Lucinda Green covers a water complex as well as a few short courses tying several fences together. While it’s a Training group, watch how the babies shine in these tough exercises!

Lucinda continues the second day of this clinic with exercises at the water complex. The emphasis is on no runouts, with a forward ride and the rider sitting back. They take several routes through the water including jumping in over a small log, out to barrels, and then a more difficult route ove...

The next challenge is a short course tying several fences together. Riders start over a drop, several strides to an inviting fence (concentrating on a straight line to this fence), then up a rise to two small fences at a one or two strides, with a 90-degree turn to the final fence.

Riders finish the clinic with one last course that uses ditches as well as regular fences. Again, Lucinda emphasizes the direction of travel, riding a straight line and keeping the horse's engine going.

Five-star event rider Jennie Brannigan brings us a lesson focused on changing the balance of the horse through a jumping grid and allowing the fence to hold the horse rather than the rider’s hands.

Jennie helps upper-level riders in one of their first schools back after a rest. She shows the importance of the details - the right canter, straight line halts and even the turn after the end of the exercise. These talented riders are able to demonstrate an incredible change in the canter for ea...

Jennie changes up the grid by adding more height. However, the riders must work to keep the canter they have developed through the previous exercise.

To finish the ride, Jennie adds a few more fences making the grid a course where the challenge is to keep the shape of the canter while coming to single fences.

In the first three parts of this video, Ashley Johnson, 5-star event rider and coach of the University of Florida Eventing Team, rides while taking two of her students cross country schooling. This gives you the opportunity to see schooling from beginner novice to preliminary while watching a pro...

Ashley and her students start by warming up on the flat; then all three demonstrate their galloping position while making changes within the gallop. She gives great advice on figuring out what length to have your stirrups for jumping and galloping.

The riders begin the cross country session with a few easy fences strung together with gallops between them. At the water, each does a different exercise, letting the beginner novice horse first get his feet wet by walking in and walking around. The preliminary horse does a series of fences requi...

This section begins with riders doing mounds with small fences on top. The preliminary rider is then challenged with several fences in a row, including a corner off a bending line.

In the last two parts of this video, Ashley rides while taking two of her students cross country schooling. In these segments they school banks and ditch and rails (coffins) to build both the horse and rider’s confidence.

Ashley continues this cross country school with two of her students, one at Preliminary and the other at Novice. In this segment, they concentrate on ditch and rail questions as well as combining several fences in a row. Watch for great advice on how to deal with horses that let down during a sch...

On the Prelim bank down, Ashley coaches on how to prepare the horse for the drop. With the Novice rider, she demonstrates with her own Beginner Novice horse how much length of rein they need to not jump as hard down the bank. She finishes with her own horse whose just moving up to Novice by doing...

Mary D'Arcy helps a rider with a horse that can be reactive and lacks some confidence. He needs a structured warm-up and schooling routine with consistent direction from the rider.

Robin helps the rider improve her horse’s rideability and accepting of the aids on the flat so that the horse is more adjustable on the cross-country course. He wants the horse’s canter to be more uphill especially when preparing for a jump. The quality and balance of the canter must remain as sp...

Robin Walker starts by talking about the role trainers, instructors and riders must take especially during the cross country phase. The perception of eventing that people outside the industry isn't always a positive one, and those in the sport must be aware of how they conduct themselves. Then Wa...

Emily Beshear and Robin Walker discuss how to positively introduce a horse to jumping a ditch. Rider position and staying committed to going forward are important components for the horse not being fearful of the ditch.

Robin Walker and Emily Beshear lead a conversation about rider fitness necessary to be able to competently complete a cross country round. It is important to keep everyone safe. Then they go forward with helping riders introduce the water and mounds, emphasizing changes in grade and terrain. It i...