Fancy Announcement!

There are two sizes of barrels. There are the smaller barrels and the bigger barrels.

I have goals to pass the level 4 tests in the Parelli world. Both the Free Style (bridleless) and Finesse (bridle) tests require a barrel jump.

Fancy has been working on her jumping form since October 2018. Her jumping form has to be something that won’t fling me to the moon. Lately, she has been jumping easily over the small size barrels.

Gulp! It’s time.

I set the barrels up so they were somewhat near an arena wall. I thought about her launching herself over the barrels like Rocket Fancy. At least it wouldn’t take me the whole arena to get her stopped.

I had her jump the barrels at a trot during our warm up. I got on and we played at maintaining gaits, gait transitions, following my body language direction, stopping and backing. We were outside enjoying full sun and 80 degrees. Who stopped the clouds, Mother Nature? Cursed Goddess

Fancy was tired. It was time to head to the indoor arena where our barrels were set up.

Gulp. We trotted towards the barrels and skimmed over. Good Lordy! It was so soft. My seat never even thought about leaving the saddle. I couldn’t believe we had actually jumped. We sat for a while and rested. Fancy got a lot of rubbing. I announced to the large imaginary crowd in the imaginary bleachers that we had completed our first jump. The crowd roared! (None of the three people in the arena noticed our barrel jump. That’s how much of a huge non event it was!)

So we did it again and it was reward dismounting time for the Olympic talented jumping horse! YAY!