Can someone please tell me the general width of an oxer between the 2 rails? I have googled it and can't find it. It keeps syaing that it varies. Right now I am jumping 2'6 with my horse and I know she can go higher, but I would like to try a low oxer, but I don't know how far apart the 2 fences have 2 be. Thanks in advance.

I have been helping set up the hunter ring for my local saddle club shows recently, so I only have that to go by...

That said, we simply have the bases of the front-rail and back-rail standards overlapping by a couple of inches. The "feet" of them that is (hopefully that makes sense). So the spread is only maybe a foot or so. The highest class offered at these shows is 3ft, and the 26 and 3ft jumpers and hunter classes show over them with no adjustment in the width of the oxer, so setting the oxer up this way should work for you, too.

And the width DOES vary depending on the height, so at the higher levels of jumping, the spreads are wider on oxers (and the set-ups for oxers start to get kinda cool, like a Swedish or a square oxer, and test your skills even more)

I loves the Sveeeeedish oxer!!! bork bork!!!

 Thank you for your help. I didn't want to set them to far apart and have her knock them down.  That helps alot. I've seen pics and the swed oxers look like so much fun. can't wait to try them..

generally an oxer is as tall as it is wide. it depends on wat your trying to train. i would recommend no more than a 2 ft spread if he doesnt have a lot of experience.

 Thank you for your input.

 Thanks FH. That helps.