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I didn't measure my highest jump on my current horse but I think it was about 1.20m.

I know I jumped about 4'3 on my old pony on one occasion. My mate and I spent all afternoon building a ramshackle XC course out of bits of old packing crates, fallen down trees, bales of mouldy hay etc (ahhhh, those heady childhood days lol). I decided, after clearing our horrible, spooky, rubbish fences that the post and rail around the field looked really inviting so popped my pony over it. Twas only when my friend's mum came out the house yelling at me that I realised it was well over 4' high - I never had the guts to do it again though, I think I just had a crazy moment. .
 
I think your adrenaline must have been at boiling point!!
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I used to always do the 3ft 9" classes in the hopes that ponies couldn't make the height. This was the days of having zero style and borrowing dad's hunter when no polo was on.....

Actually either its me, or now unusual to see a 3ft 9" unaffliated class? Seems to stop at 3ft 6" (always been too mean to fork out for affiliation reg & fees)
 
Nooooooooo no valium, just had a LOT of trust in the horse (she was an ex polo pony that I had reschooled for SJ and was awesome, she would jump a house). Plus I was getting paid LOL!

Yes I certainly do still jump! Try not to jump cars now though, the owners may get mad
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Occasionally i decide i need a confidence boost and jump the top hole on our wings. That's about 1.60m (5'3" in old money)
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That's only ever a single upright though....the highest i tend to school over at home (i.e a course or set of related fences) would be around 1.35m / 1.40m (4'5" / 4'7"). Usually though it's more about technique and for that 1.20m is enough
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jumped my 13.2hh 4ft 6 once, a converter said thats just over 1m30, but that seems incredibly high...

jumped my 15hh 4ft (apparently 1m20 ish) in a lesson when my instructor was interested to see what he'd make of it! He gave it about a foot (and I closed my eyes!)

I agree about them looking bigger if you haven't done it for a while, when I started jumping again 2ft looked huge haha!
 
Jumping 1.10 courses

Schooling up to 1.30

Have jumped 1.60 in a moment of madness (on an ex international)

Put me off my dream of being international - could never do a course!
 
Jumped some big buggers out hunting (many years ago) but never measured! If I had would never have jumped them!!!!!!
Also used to do British Airways Hunter Trials and remember them being quite big sometimes!
 
when I used to work for a dealer I used to jump 1.30 quite regularly and occasionally 1.50cm ( with my eyes shut-lol) but recently have only jumped about 3 ft max. Competitively have jumped up to 1.10!
 
I only do old money -what is 3'6"? That is my limit, but then I have never been interested in jumping and only did that as part of WH showing..keep all four legs on the ground these days
 
one off jump between 3ft and 4ft. Not very good style, but horse tends to overjump everything anyway so every time I go over a jump i probably go that high, but i dont like jumping atall
 
On a daft day out hunting did 6ft hedge
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and only 3 of us did hedge, with me giving lead, i was really looking for gate to go through. And i only did it cos i was asked too and i didn't feel i could refuse. It was on my old 15h 2 and i had to look up to hedge
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. I went back next and measured it, bl00dy huge.
But my comfrot zone sj is 3ft 3 to 3ft 6
 
I'd say 1.20 intentionally on pony (14.2) and possibly on the orange one..

But accidentally - full height wooden gate from a standstill - would have been 140 or thereabouts, but didn't exactly get chance to measure it...

Well, until I had to get off at the other side after being bashed in the head... It was about chin height on me and I'm 5'6"
 
On Hemir its a course of 3'6 jumps...yesterday we did a spread and back bar was 3'6 (1m!!) and apparently he cleared by a foot the 1st time!!

Have jumped 1.50m on a nutter that jumped out of the school...took off with me and i had no brakes...scared the hell out of me, brought her back into the arena and jumped her 1.25m from trot over a jump so she wouldn't go crazy after it!!

ETS: this mare nearly went to the meat man...and my riding instructor nearly told me about her for me to buy...wish i had, she is a fab mare but just he got there first saw her bought her then told me he was looking for me!!!!
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Have also jump a 13.2hh haflinger over 4ft6 in a puissance competition.....the jumps were getting bigger than him!!! Didn't go any further but i think he would have gone further...he was an ace pony but a bu**er that would get everyone on the ground if given half a chance, and i asked if i could ride him in the puissance!!
 
Jumped 1.30 on my old mare just before she went to stud, so that if I'd lost my bottle while she was having a baby, I could use that as my 'just get on with it, you've done it before'
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i have now totally lost my nerve but as a kid i though 4ft was smallish and something you 'popped' over while schooling - i was very lucky to ride some amazing JA ponies!

i think the highest i ever got to on them was just about 5ft - although i think if the wings had been higher i'd have tried it!

ahhh, the days when confidence was not a problem!!
now i dont even do 6inch cross poles!
 
When I was young and fearless I jumped well over 4 ft on my 14.2hh pony and thought nothing of it.
On my current horse the biggest I've jumped would be about 1m and although she has scope to go a lot higher I haven't.
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Far too big! I used to work at a yard which had a puissance competiton, so inevitably for several weeks before the comp we would jump everything to its maximum to find out what would do well! Most horses topped out somewhere in the 4' range, but there were several that could do 5' plus (top of the school wings was 5' if you rested a pole on the top). During the actual competitions I dread to think what the actual height got to (they had wing extenders!), I tried not to look at the jump! One of the liveries leant me their SJer one year, on the basis they didn't feel it fair to compete on it, but why shouldn't one of the teenagers? That horse could FLY! Of course, these were single jumps, far far less skill involved than jumping a course anywhere near that height - more 'point and pray'!!!!!

Now, I have zero nerve when it comes to jumping, my stomach starts turning at 2'6'' for coloured fences, it is absolutely a recognized phenomenon of 2'6'' mental block! Outside hacking I popped over a few that were 3'3'' to 3'6'' in January, solid fences are far easier to jump (probably because we go faster than my brain processes the information!) A lot of it is I don't know the horses enough to trust them, if/when I get around to getting a horse out here I hope I can regain that trust and enjoy jumping bigger fences again.
 
QR - 1.60m on an international when grooming...was a sort of bet, I said coloured poles scared me and I'd never jump over 1m...he said the right horse will take anyone to the farside of the fence. He was right! It felt a looong way down!
 
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