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PapaFrita

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Nuff said.

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ps: These pics are 4 years old and have been on the forum at least twice before.
 

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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhah ........... You really shouldnt. At least you are wearing a hat, but then again is it PF that 'Never bucks, spooks or rears', and you are on your own land anyway, so mind your own business'?
 

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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhah ........... You really shouldnt. At least you are wearing a hat, but then again is it PF that 'Never bucks, spooks or rears', and you are on your own land anyway, so mind your own business'?

PF isn't nearly that well trained; she frequently spooks and sometimes bucks although she never ever rears, but only at home. At shows she is an angel.
 
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I don't think you guys have seen the full extent of a "pink" addiction. This is my friend Kirsty Rault (international A Grade Show Jumper) on her GELDING Cruden Bay at this year's derby in SA (She had to get special permission from the South African National Equestrain Federation to ride like this). Here are the pics:

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Yes her horses hooves are painted pink, she used glittery pink horsie coat spray to make two heart on her horses rump and she has a complete addiction to pink :D
 

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I don't think you guys have seen the full extent of a "pink" addiction. This is my friend Kirsty Rault (international A Grade Show Jumper) on her GELDING Cruden Bay at this year's derby in SA (She had to get special permission from the South African National Equestrain Federation to ride like this). Here are the pics:

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Yes her horses hooves are painted pink, she used glittery pink horsie coat spray to make two heart on her horses rump and she has a complete addiction to pink :D

Speechless. And just a bit impressed at her dedication!!
 

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I think it's the whip that does it for me! Brilliant! But poor, poor horse must have a complex - either that or he just knows he's "man" enough to be able to carry it off!
 

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Trying to figure out this jump.... any volunteers?

It's pretty common in the derby classes in SA. Essentially it's a stand with 4 lots of poles coming off it and you jump the middle. St Andrew's cross I think. At a low level, it's easy to do with a bale of hay on its end or a barrel, otherwise just cross the poles of a spread over (left back upright to right front upright and vice versa, but then the heights are uneven). The horses jump it really well.

Maybe a better way to explain it is that it looks like a cross from above and you jump the middle.

Clear as mud?
 

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It's a southern hemisphere kinda fence MB, called either a spider fence or scissor jump here in Oz. Imagine a giant X multiple directional upright in the middle... Pretty old school, used only for the more speciality classes now a days.
 

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There's an intresting story to that hat XD: Kirsty arrived at the derby original planning to jump in her usual black hat - only to find that she's forgotten it at home (Home being a 2 hours drive away), luckily our shows always have a local tackshop or two that come set up stands (they make quite a reasonable profit off of people who forget stuff at home) and that's when it happened :p...; Kirsty spotted the pink hat and refused to let it go regardless of it's size - and that's how the pink hat landed up in an A Grade show minutes after it's purchase :D

Yup, that Scissor Jump is really tricky when it stands 1.60m (5.24 ft) - it's basically just there to test how straight you're coming into the jumps (Because I can promise you that if you come into that one skew, you're screwed). It's more their to test the rider than the horse :p, and it's really not that common here in SA either and I've actually only ever seen them being used at a show at the Derby (where the point is to eliminate as many people as possible by giving them very tricky jumps so that the resulting Jump Off is very elite both on the horse and riders side)
 

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St. Andrews cross Megabeast! We use them in all Derby trials and derby-type classes. It's basically a drum/hay ball/upright with 4 poles coming off it...would look like an X from about with the joining point being where you jump :) Not often they refuse it though, even in the little classes (fairly often seen even in 80/90cm derby style classes).
 

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Sorry PF, think you've been out-pinked!

I use an admittedly smaller version of that fence as a schooling exercise, you can play back and forth over the uprights, then jumping the middle bits really gets them up in the air. Good practice for them to listen about which bit to jump before starting with corners in the school. Here's William doing it as a 5yo:

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Awww those poor geldings they are going to be very confused about whether they are a mare or gelding! lol

I've always fancied putting pink on my boy but I don't think he would be very impressed! So far I have managed to resist the temptation! lol
 

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lol :D

My boy has a fabulous hot pink turnout rug that looks super on him haha, especially as he is dark bay :) He doesn't seem to take offence!

But, I stuck my Mum's pink hi viz leg wraps on him to hack out the other day and he started bunny hopping half way around the hack. I couldn't work out why as he has NEVER bucked or even pu this back up. I started to worry that there was something wrong until I realized he was spooking at the wraps on his back legs!!!!

Poor old boy, the things he has to put up with!!!!
 

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St. Andrews cross Megabeast! We use them in all Derby trials and derby-type classes. It's basically a drum/hay ball/upright with 4 poles coming off it...would look like an X from about with the joining point being where you jump :) Not often they refuse it though, even in the little classes (fairly often seen even in 80/90cm derby style classes).

Used to see them fairly often in the UK in the late 80's early 90's - certainly remember jumping them even unaff back then,
 
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