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Saffy is my 11 year old cob mare from World Horse Welfare. I have had her since she was 6 and we have mainly hacked with the odd lesson and one local show per year. We moved in August and now have a school and she is obsessed with jumping, if you try schooling and there is a jump in the school she will nap towards it. If you loose school her she will keep jumping on her own, she is not very good at jumping but in her head she thinks she is a grade A show jumper lol! Does anyone elses horse love jumping this much?
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My newly broken cob mare is exactly the same! Shes not very good either but god loves a tryer and i hated jumping but shes really boosed my confidence with it, although i cant imaging jumping anything over 1ft any time soon! Lol
 
rowan666 said:
My newly broken cob mare is exactly the same! Shes not very good either but god loves a tryer and i hated jumping but shes really boosed my confidence with it, although i cant imaging jumping anything over 1ft any time soon! Lol
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She sounds the same as mine, we are only jumping 1'6'' lol but Saffy thinks she's jumping higher!!
 
Mine doesn't! He was specifically bred to show jump, but flatly refuses to jump anything. He was originally produced on a show jumping yard, and I think they did something bad to him, because his reaction to being asked to jump anything is really extreme!
 
my welsh mare does but only when not too high so nothing 70 cm upwards. was only doing crosspoles the otherday and she gets very lively and happy and can't wait. I am sure she thinks she is flying!
 
My four year old is like this - he's daft! Jumps field fences for fun, desperate to jump under saddle if there's one up, and a lot easier to ride when jumping than schooling! He also locks on to ridiculously skinny things... Was jumping a single upright barrel in hand this afternoon :D
 
CF is like that, even out hacking if he see's a log on the ground he is trying to beetle over it.
Oddly, he is better on grass than in an arena. In an arena my arms grow & he really tries to tank at anything he thinks he can get over! :biggrin3:
 
Loose schooled my TB eventer would jump the fence and hurtle round the arena to jump again and again and again! The only way to stop him was to stand in front of the fence waving arms above head yelling 'WHOA!'

My Connemara became addicted to jumping after he was introduced to it. Try to school him in a school with even a single fence up and you were wasting your time, let him pop the fence once and then he would settle down and get his schooling head on. He eventually grew out of it!
 
I love hearing about your happy jumping horses!
Illusion I will try your method and let her have a little jump before schooling to see if it helps :)
 
Auslander said:
Mine doesn't! He was specifically bred to show jump, but flatly refuses to jump anything. He was originally produced on a show jumping yard, and I think they did something bad to him, because his reaction to being asked to jump anything is really extreme!
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I've got this problem and am also convinced some underhand methods were employed when she was jump schooled in the past, she hates jumping and us really scared, if due jumps she goes huge but hates it so em generally don't!
 
A friend once had a horse that loved jumping. Unfortunately it became a bit of an escape artist and jumped out of its fields on a regular basis. This culminated in a showdown when a neighbour found it grazing on his young wheat shoots and went nuts. After that, they had to put a strand of electric wire five foot from the ground around the field.
 
My horse loves jumping so much he jumps the 5 bar gate into the next field with ease, I wish he wouldn't though :-(
 
Nicky44 said:
My horse loves jumping so much he jumps the 5 bar gate into the next field with ease, I wish he wouldn't though :-(
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I sympathise. I almost never find one of mine in the same field I left it. I'm just happy he's staying on my land at the moment! ;)
 
My HW traditional popped a few tiny cross poles in the December of his 4yr old year and plowed right through them, so I put him down as a non jumper. He went off to boot camp and they wacked the jumps up to 3foot and he was flying! Turns out, he just cant be bothered with little jumps, but a decent size jump and theres no stopping him :lol: Its very bizarre to see a great big lump of a cob making a nice shape over a reasonable size fence, feathers flying in the breeze :lol:
 
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