>> 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.
Think about this: scenario: in Iceland, way back when, when they were looking for stuff to do in the winter... if the horses were good at jumping, it would have been the thing to do, would have become part of the horse culture, and we'd probably be seeing jumping competitions with Icelandics in the US rather than tolting on ice. Judy http://icehorses.net http://clickryder.com
