In addition to the difficult course, it is also a big difficulty for riders to survive in cross-country obstacle courses.

After all, the difficulty of the route means that the risk is that at high speeds, whether the horse can move exactly according to the rider's will no longer depends entirely on the control of the rider, but more importantly, the natural ability of the horse itself.

After all, let a racehorse that can't jump over a large obstacle in the wild, and let it barely jump on the rider's back, the end result is obviously only a rider and a racehorse, crashing heavily into the obstacle.

Therefore, the most dangerous cross-country obstacle course is far more important than the show jumping race, which requires more observation and adaptation to the race route before the race, which can greatly avoid the occurrence of dangers and accidents in the race.

Fu Jun and the others followed Wang Yu together, led the transcendence, and followed the route of the cross-country race.

Along the way, all kinds of obstacles of different sizes and heights were surpassed and encountered, which made it hesitate, so that Fu Jun and Wang Yu and others appeased it for a while before surpassing it was appeased.

Because the obstacles used in the cross-country obstacle race do not have a special height arrangement, all the obstacles are set according to the environment of each venue, which cannot be like the track cross-country race, with a uniform standard obstacle bar to let the horse jump.

In the field obstacle race, because in the usual training, the obstacle bars that are touched are similar to the style of the obstacle bars used in the competition, so it will be much faster to get familiar with the field of show jumping than the cross-country obstacle race.

On the other hand, the cross-country obstacle course is based on the environment of the wild field, and there is no uniform standard for the materials, which is a big challenge for racehorses who are born with visual impairments.

William Museler wrote in his classic riding book, The Logic of Riding, "Cross-country racing is more than just a race, it's the ultimate goal of all training, including dressage." ”

This point of view fully illustrates the importance of cross-country in equestrian eventing, in short, if a rider can excel in cross-country obstacle courses, then he will definitely not be too bad in show jumping and dressage competitions.

Because, many things in the cross-country obstacle course are reflected in the show jumping and dressage competitions, but the difficulty of the cross-country obstacle course is much more difficult than the difficulty of the show jumping race.

In addition to the horse's talent for speed and endurance, there is also how to make the horse face one unfamiliar obstacle after another, and jump bravely without refusing to jump.

After all, horses don't have the same vision as humans, and horses are able to switch between "monocular mode" and "binocular mode", causing them to have a natural visual deficit.

The so-called "monocular mode" refers to the fact that the horse sees things independently with its two eyes; "Binocular mode" is when both eyes look at one thing at the same time.

In general, horses use "monocular mode", where each eye does not disturb each other and sees an image independently; Only when the distance needs to be judged does the horse "switch" to "binocular mode", allowing both eyes to focus on the same target, but in "binocular mode", the horse's eyes can only overlap about 30% of the field.

Therefore, the three-dimensional sense of horses is actually relatively poor, when crossing obstacles, it is difficult for horses to judge the actual height of obstacles, in their eyes, high and short obstacles, they can not jump over the existence.

It's no wonder that horses are "barely embarrassed" when they cross double fences and land in deep ditches, because for obstacles, even if the obstacles are small, in the eyes of the horses, they can't tell which obstacle is high and which is short.

This is also the reason why tall horses are afraid of obstacles that are not very high, and even refuse to jump, simply because of their visual defects.

Wang Yu's transcendence is like this, after entering this new cross-country obstacle course, in the face of many obstacles that it has seen for the first time, it is difficult to judge the height, and it is difficult to move forward.

It wasn't until Wang Yu and Fu Jun and others slowly pacified it that it was willing to approach, and when it came into contact with all the obstacles, and after Wang Yu rode it to train and jump, it faced those obstacles and was not so afraid.

Of course, it's not just the overtaking, the other horses that come to familiarize themselves with the venue environment in advance are basically the same, and before encountering new obstacles, let the entourage who accompany them toss for a while.

For example, Ma Kun and Yu Deshui's Wind Lightning, Yu Deshui and Wind Lightning, who also signed up for the cross-country obstacle course, even though this one-man and one-horse combination has rich experience in the competition, but the Wind Lightning is also in front of many obstacles, which makes people think that this is a new horse that has not yet touched the cross-country obstacle race.

Of course, these are all things that must be experienced in cross-country obstacle racing, but fortunately, for professionally trained racehorses, as long as the racehorse is familiar with the obstacles, the smart racehorses will basically not be afraid of obstacles, unless, their ability is not talented, and they know that they can't jump obstacles at all.

After the staff of the race came to urge, Wang Yu and Yu Deshui and other riders handed over the horses to them, and at the same time asked the accompanying horse caregivers to follow the horses, and then left the field with Fu Jun and others.

They have to go back to rinse their bodies first, and then change into a clean set of cross-country obstacle course equestrian clothes to prepare for the competition, after all, the cross-country obstacle course is particularly prone to dirt.

When they were familiar with the venue just now, they and the horses were covered with a lot of dirt and dust in the competition venue, and if they wore such clothes to compete, it would obviously not be in line with the etiquette of equestrian competitions.

As for the horse racing staff, it is the competition rule, in addition to training, before the official competition, the horse racing is supervised by the event staff, and let the accompanying club horse care staff keep up, but also let them before the race, a good wash for the race, to prevent the situation of messy horse racing, which will affect the image of the equestrian competition.

After all, cleaning so many horses that have just been covered in mud in the cross-country obstacle course is obviously a big challenge for the staff of the competition, not to mention that it is necessary to rush before today's official competition, so today, the competition requires all participating riders to bring their own nursing staff, so that there will be no accidents that delay the progress of the race because of the scrubbing of the horses.

When the sun completely shone on the Shanyang City Horse Racecourse, the spectators from all walks of life were full of horses like yesterday, which also indicated that today's cross-country obstacle course was about to begin.

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