On 5/15/07, Judy Ryder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > All horses can jump, but it depends on how good you want them to be, or how > much it affects them as to whether they want to or can do it. >
so its like I COULD be a basketball player but I probably won't ever make it into the NBA.... But at gats level. I don't know exactly what that show level is but its obviously not Gran Prix or MacClay. Do they do lower jumps? Or are the heights the same for kids as well as the Gran Prix.... Would seem to me all horses could jump one ft and be competitive with all horses. SSHBEA horse jumps are 3 ft. and they jump them and clear them, but watching the competition you see they don't gait, they canter around just like a "normal" horse. And they don't do any double jumps, jumps downhill into watercourses etc. and face it, on the trail a gaited horse doesnt NEED to jump like a trotting horse. My Jaspar can go right over a two ft log without breaking gait one beat. But I noticed this weekend Teev did a little stumble on a real tall log. Mainly he had to do a little hippy hop over with his back legs. But my friends paso fino did a beautiful jump over it with front feet tucked. Probably cause she realized she would have to break gait to get over it. It could have been more like 2.5 feet. pretty tall. anyway Janice -- yipie tie yie yo
