pinktiger
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Am prob not in the right place for this question, but just wanted opinions on what people thought of loose schooling/jumping young horses?????
LOOSE JUMPING YOUNG HORSES??
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Shilasdair
Patting her thylacine
In what way?
Most SJ/event studs will loose jump their youngsters (from weaning on) a couple of times a year maybe, to assess their potential and determine which are 'sellers' and which are 'keepers', and sometimes for the competitions.
As long as the surface is good, the jumps safe, and the youngstock sound, I have no problem with it.
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Most SJ/event studs will loose jump their youngsters (from weaning on) a couple of times a year maybe, to assess their potential and determine which are 'sellers' and which are 'keepers', and sometimes for the competitions.
As long as the surface is good, the jumps safe, and the youngstock sound, I have no problem with it.
S
PapaFrita
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Very common here in Argentina for the reasons Shilasdair mentions.
pinktiger
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cool you sound like peeps who kno their stuff!!! i have a 3yold (out of an advanced eventa/golden heights mare) just started backing, n thought today would just loose school him in arena!! thought would just pop a cross pole up and (just) see!!! OMG hes got the technique of an alpacca!!! how can i help him??????
Theresa_F
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As said above depends in what way.
From rising 3 about once a month for Chancer has done a couple of jumps in the school - starting at 1' and he has just done 2' recently. He finds it great fun and is learning to balance himself and sort out his legs. He also does pole work every other week for a short period.
He is always on a good surface and comes in nice and steady.
I plan to start doing ridden jumping next year when he rising 5 but will probably start to add a little more height this autumn up to 2'6.
I would not wanted to have him jump any younger, but he can really leap round the field naturally and has done so from 16 months.
From rising 3 about once a month for Chancer has done a couple of jumps in the school - starting at 1' and he has just done 2' recently. He finds it great fun and is learning to balance himself and sort out his legs. He also does pole work every other week for a short period.
He is always on a good surface and comes in nice and steady.
I plan to start doing ridden jumping next year when he rising 5 but will probably start to add a little more height this autumn up to 2'6.
I would not wanted to have him jump any younger, but he can really leap round the field naturally and has done so from 16 months.