Hedge Jumping...

[lizzie87]

Hunting is off for a couple of weeks ( due to kennel cough aka hound flu to my un horsey friends!), and the hunt are organising hedge jumping instead. Some say it is a 'contest', some say a 'masterclass'. Having only hunted this year, i have never done one of these before. Will ring to find out more, but dont want to seem like a complete muppet! So how big are the hedges likely to be? i will be ok with 3 foot, but 4 foot and i wont bother going! Will there be ponies, of will it all be horses? I have a funny image of hedges getting bigger as we go across fields, and the one to make it furthest wins!

Any info anyone has really?
Waht should i wear if i do go?

Thanks

 

[legaldancer]

It may just be a jolly round the hunt jumps & hedges following the fieldmaster.

Watch out though, our hunt did this on a foggy day when hunting was called off & it was like the Grand National! Great fun until horse & I took a tumble & broke my collar bone missing the whole season as a result!

 

[MrWoof]

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Hunting is off for a couple of weeks ( due to kennel cough aka hound flu to my un horsey friends!), and the hunt are organising hedge jumping instead. Some say it is a 'contest', some say a 'masterclass'. Having only hunted this year, i have never done one of these before. Will ring to find out more, but dont want to seem like a complete muppet! So how big are the hedges likely to be? i will be ok with 3 foot, but 4 foot and i wont bother going! Will there be ponies, of will it all be horses? I have a funny image of hedges getting bigger as we go across fields, and the one to make it furthest wins!

Any info anyone has really?
Waht should i wear if i do go?

Thanks

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Have you ever done a Hunter Trial? Much the same really I would think with hedges and timber involved. The question as to " ..... how big are the hedges ....." is a bit like asking how long is a piece of string!! Go and jump what you wish to jump - there will always be a way around some, if not most of the fences. I would suggest wearing Ratcatcher. Why not just ring the Hon Hunt Sec and ask whatever questions to which you need answers.

 

[RunToEarth]

Go and do it, you will really enjoy it and if they look a little big for your liking just miss them out

Happy hedge hopping