A few horsey photos.

Brigstock horse trials @ Rockingham castle Northants.
Maybe not the best horsey photos but I'm trying.

Nice shots and the timings look perfect.

I'm probably completely wrong and the more experienced members will comment I'm sure but the issue to me looks not to be focus but shutter speed. Don't be frighted of shooting with the fantastic high iso capabilities of the K5IIs

I'd love to try this (photographing not being on the horses hehe)

You could be right Puggy - focus looks to be a bit short of the horses with sharp objects nearer the camera, but then again much of the backgrounds is also fairly in focus, so I wonder if the aperture could have been wider? As you said, higher ISO would have helped also. I'm guessing its the movement that is causing the slight softness on the subjects.Vic, do you remember what the settings were?

For jumping horses a minimum shutter speed to get anywhere near sharp images is 1/320th.

None of the above images is sharp. Great composition and timing, but too much motion blur for me.

Here's an example, still not perfect, taken indoors under mixed lighting at 1/320th, f2.8 enormous ISO because flash is a no-no where horses are concerned.

Yup bump the ISO up. Between 1000 and 2000 should do it.

I'd try and shoot those at 1/800s to 1/1000s at least

I hadn't noticed the ISO setting of Vic's shots. ISO 200 on an overcast day and fast moving subjects is much too low in my opinion, I'd have used at least ISO 800 and shutter speed of at least 1/500th, probably nearer 1/1000th.

In truth, I'd have used TAv mode and let the camera sort the ISO out.

Thanks for the feedback folks. I'm not a horsey person I just went for the day to try my hand at photographing them. Although not great I'm better at motorbikes and thought these four legged things might be a bit slower and easier. Now I know different.
CHEERS Vic.
P.S. I've just looked it up and on all of them it is ISO 200. Vic.