Designing Courses and Obstacles

By Pamela Carruthers

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395266866
• ISBN13: 9780395266861
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 161 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Good advice from a great course designer.

Pamela Carruthers was a fine rider in her heyday, and a superb course designer in her later years. She designed grand prix jumping courses at all the major show jumping events around the world. I had the privelege of listening to her describe her rationale for some great courses. The first fence is a gift to the horse and rider to get them in the right frame of mind. A course should be challenging enough to weed out the field, but not kill or maim them. She used changes of direction, half-stride approaches, and obstacle types to good effect, without having to use super huge fences, though hers were often big, to be sure. This book covers the ground for the beginning to advanced designer. I used this book as my bible when I was doing this in the 1980s at small shows. The rationale behind her layouts is very sound.