Lighthearted!! Let's see your jumping bloopers!!!

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See'ing as everyone is starting their seasons, just thought i'd get everyone to share their WOOPS!! moments :-)

i'll start.. Gatcome OI..totally miss on the exit out of water haha!!

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A and Reg today- if the fence hadn't toppled they'd have scraped over and it could have just been chalked up to experience rather than a full on face plant, poor pony!
 
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emmyc, that just made my day!!

Lolo, OMG!! I need some of that superglue!! Amazing that the rider stayed on and probably helped the horse's confidence? How annoying for a solid fence to collapse so unexpectedly!
 
That picture will haunt me forever :rolleyes:, we jumped round that track foot perfect, that was the last fence, I have the whole sequence somewhere, it is a cracker, glad you like it! :D

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Fitting a stride into a bounce (yet somehow managing to jump- even if it looks like she's about to stop!- and leave it up!);

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Another "looks like a stop" but isn't AND leaves it up! Clever cat-like pony!

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Getting a little too close to this corner (always the one where you station the camera man... :rolleyes: Jumped it perfectly when schooling a couple of days later when he wasn't there!), but jumped it cleanly from here.

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And this one always amusing to everyone else! :p Taking a rather large leap out of the water and me being rather catapulted out of the saddle/ left behind! :o

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My poor pony...! :o
 
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Got it a bit wrong here schooling at home. Did survive and manage to jump it properly the next time

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Holy moly Charlimouse how the heck did you both survive that one:eek::D:) Even finished off the combination looking quite together - good effort
 
Pony wasn't expecting a water tray...got wet knees!
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Bless him, his little ears are still pricked even though he's snorkelling sand. He managed to save me from the dirt and picked up both back up from here.
 
Charliemouse... thats a good one of Oasby - my worst was when I ended up head first in the intro version of that jump. For some reason now I dont like spread jumps.

Other one was where I was riding Trig into tiny X-pole at PC ODE warm up. He was to busy gorping about to notice there was a jump, stopped at it, I went slap bang on the poles, and the whole lot came crashing down on me - poles wings etc.
 
Lolo - out of interest, did you carry on after that? Just wondering if you got a refusal for that?! You did kind of end up going between the flags...!

Here's my one from Burgie one year. From the front the fence looked like it was just an upright (the front brush obscured the rest of the fence), poor pony thought it was just a simple fence, only when he took off did he realise it was actually much wider than he thought so he simply bounced onto it and off again (bouncing the bruses!) - he's such a clever boy. I often go on the buckle end and let him sort it out.

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I also have this one which I think looks quite impressive! This was my Welsh Cob doing I think once of his first working hunters as a 5yo. Got very close so he jumped it like a deer!

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emmyc, that just made my day!!

Lolo, OMG!! I need some of that superglue!! Amazing that the rider stayed on and probably helped the horse's confidence? How annoying for a solid fence to collapse so unexpectedly!
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the same sort of thing happened again later in the class, and they took that jump out after that!
also happened on a large corner jump, after 2 horses fell over it with the jump rolling after them they took that out too!
 
PPB: They didn't take the corner fence out- A went round the 1m-1.10m class too and jumped the smaller corner which had flipped...

Don't know how she stayed on but it did mean she could keep Reg going which helped him.

MM- Counted as a clear, as they went between the flags and technically over the fence. If the fence hadn't flipped, it would have been no worse than him just scraping over so it did worry him a bit.
 
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Took off at the same time as the other horse, despite being a stride behind!

I was then punished for landing like a sack of potatoes on his back with a massive buck and a bolt across the field - but Jacob always knows right, until it goes wrong and then it's my fault!!
 
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