Monday, October 4, 2010
free jumping
I set up a chute today to free jump a little appendix mare and see what she thought of it. While we had the chute built I decided to run Nina through it. She hasn't free jumped since we left Seabreeze. She nearly tore my arm off when I led her up to it by the halter. Then she jumped through it a few times while I raised the jumps and tried not to get run over. She was jumping in perfect form, then she got bored and started bouncing it.... an 18 foot one-stride. After a couple of times of that I knocked the poles down so she would stop but she went through it and did the broad jump over the scattered poles. I had to pull all of the poles completely out of the chute before she quit running through it. Then she followed me around while I put the stuff away. Man, can this mare jump!
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BIG smile.Go Nina!
ReplyDeleteWOW. So we know Nina can jump, how about Sky?
ReplyDeleteSky took a few times thru to figure it out, but she was more than willing to keep trying. Finally got her feet straightened out and did nicely over a raised ground pole and a little X. I had to pull it out to 18ft. I had made it a little tight but she has a big stride.
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