Gamebird
Well-Known Member
I'm re-reading some of my old pony books (have no internet other than phone atm and am at a bit of a loose end ) and am curious about the heights of the jumping classes. In most of them the novice class is over 3ft and the open is 3'9. Jump-offs weren't against the clock but all about clears so there may have been 3 or 4 JOs to find a winner with the fences reaching 4'6 or so in the last round.
We'd find this enormous nowadays. Imagine kids taking their novice pony to a show and having to start at 1m. And the next class up being around 1.20. I appreciate that there were only 7 or 8 fences to jump and there was no technicality to the courses at all but did ordinary ponies really jump those heights in the 50s/60s?
We'd find this enormous nowadays. Imagine kids taking their novice pony to a show and having to start at 1m. And the next class up being around 1.20. I appreciate that there were only 7 or 8 fences to jump and there was no technicality to the courses at all but did ordinary ponies really jump those heights in the 50s/60s?