Adding an Oxer to an Equestrian Challenge Course

"Now that your horse and you are comfortable with riding a simple course of fences, we're going to add in a more advanced element. What we'll do is we'll add in an oxer just in the line. And this is just a second set of standards and poles, which is going to make the jump wider, and some horses may be backed off by this new, wider fence. And, it's important that because it's wider, we really make sure that we canter right up to the base of the fence in order to allow the horse to get over the width. So, we don't want to end up getting a long distance to that oxer. And this should still ride in a solid three strides. And there she just rushed the line. We're going to try it one more time, see if we can have a better, more balanced canter. One, two, three. Much better."