Jumps With a "Surprise" Factor

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As you move up the levels, you are likely to find more and more fences on the cross country that have some sort of "surprise" involved. Very often, this involves something on the landing side of a jump that will catch a horse by surprise, like in a classic coffin complex, a sunken road, a road crossing, or a jump with a change of terrain or footing on the landing side. Another common cause for surprise on cross country are fences that have something to draw the horse's eye to the bottom of the fence right before takeoff - like a ditch or something else spook worthy. The KEY to success at these types of fences is to...