I'm not sure how I feel about this...

i hate it, but i know some studs and some individuals do it, there is a school of thought that a foal will show its natural ability and you can then aim it towards that particular career...
personally, i think that's b*******, and i would never jump a foal.
i did have 1 who i bred who jumped little fences in the arena on her own (not following mum, choosing to jump them while charging around having fun) but i think that's different, and i only gave her the opportunity once!
 
That was my thinking, it's one thing for a foal to jump a little branch in the field but it does seem quite high and you have to wonder how often they are doing it
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We had a guy at our yard that when selling his foal (mare and foal sold together as she wasn't weaned yet) he was lunging the foal, trotting it in tiny circles. I so wanted to run him in tiny circle and see how his joints felt but he was bigger than me
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I have to admit to cantering and jumping ditches on the side of the road as a kid but that girl is cantering on the road!!! :-s

I may get flamed but I don't see the harm in jumping a foal once or twice but I have a horrible feeling that ppl don't limit it to once or twice. Having said that, it's not something I'd personally want to do with a youngster of mine as I'm etnerally paranoid about legs!
 
All those ponies with poor knackered legs.

Especially the baby. But also those idiots galloping along a road. Although i guess it was a storm in the US and i don't know how bad they are over there...?
 
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Don't get me wrong, I used to canter on verges too
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she isn't cantering on the road, she's galloping, look at the horse's action toward the end of the clip, it's galloping! On the tarmac, on a road, where cars drive...utterly mental!
 
i wonder if they really were trying to get away from a storm? the person on the palomino looked a bit scared lol!!!!!

bet their poor legs were agony after going that fast on the roads
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awesome, : that baby really does have natural ability,
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you can see how he looks for the jump calculates every stride lifts his fore well, bascules and uses his back end well, love it! Ill buy!
 
aww come on when you see just how much shinanigans foals get up to on a daily basis,, airs about the ground, leaping around mounting their dams, bucking kicking, jumping over tall grasses, we even had one jumping over his mum when his feild buddies went hurtling off and he went careering after them... i really dont think it does them any physical harm and I think in their natural habitat if left to their own devices they would need to jump ditches logs branches etc to survive, but rightly enough i dont think the fence needs to be that high to assess jumping potential but i do like it.
 
This makes me so mad and sad. I have done everything to look after my girls legs and take care of them, yet she is a write off at age 8. Why oh why do people abuse their horses legs like this?!
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