Fancy Jumping

Jumping Fancy

  1. Jump online.  If she did go over poles, she walked over them, hit the poles and mangled the pole and pole supports.
  2. After a year she jumps the pole without hitting it with her feet.  She just recently cantered over the pole about 1 -2 feet.  
  3. Last year we tried to jump over small barrels.  Slide stop.
  4. This year we switched to plastic support and pole up about six inches.
  5. Many online attempts with her feet hitting the pole and mangling the support blocks.
  6. Riding- we walked over the pole, often hitting the pole with feet and mangling the jump
  7. We trot over pole, maybe hitting pole, maybe not.
  8. Raised the pole.  See above.
  9. The past two weeks Fancy has jumped over the pole online.  She can jump over it without hitting the pole.
  10. Riding-  we come trotting to jump and slam on our slide stop.  Two weeks of slide stops which I accompany with a low level scream.
  11. Last week, we made a jump.
  12. Yesterday, we jumped three times.  We did not touch the pole!  Three times!
  13. Today!  We start at the end of the arena and stare at the jump.  We go!  We speed up.  She goes faster to the jump.  
  14. I’m screaming internally,  slow down!  Fancy is focused.  She does not slow down. We sail over the jump.  We did this three times, all with speeding up,  I bet we jumped three feet.  Fancy has turned into a jumping horse with a silent screaming rider!

Scream!