Omg this looks so much fun!

looks more stupid that fun for a paraniod about ponies legs, none jumper like myself!!!
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Well I must be one of those looking for trouble people - or at least was when I was younger. We used to spend hours with our ponies doing things like that, also used to dare each other to jump hedges into my dads garden, go up and down air raid shelters pretending we were jumping off the Derby bank, build jumps in streams, gallop round stubble fields jumping bales. Never had a days lameness, hunted all winter off grass - loads of tumbles but hey ho made it to middle age!!
 
looks a lot like hunting to me lol
good practice! it looks like fun!
oooh just seen thats its up near my cousins live doesnt look much like ireland for a while...too sunny

Why risk the one's that struggle?...so they get better if you dont try you cant improve either yourself or the horse
 
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looks a lot like hunting to me lol
good practice! it looks like fun!
oooh just seen thats its up near my cousins live doesnt look much like ireland for a while...too sunny

Why risk the one's that struggle?...so they get better if you dont try you cant improve either yourself or the horse

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Oh thank Goodness.

Thought I was going bl00dy mad there for a mo!
 
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looks a lot like hunting to me lol
good practice! it looks like fun!
oooh just seen thats its up near my cousins live doesnt look much like ireland for a while...too sunny

Why risk the one's that struggle?...so they get better if you dont try you cant improve either yourself or the horse

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Oh thank Goodness.

Thought I was going bl00dy mad there for a mo!

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Lol doesnt mean your not mad im afraid
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just that i too am mad and would be quite happy to try something like this in a shot
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beside's by the looks of the other videos their training young horses to event an crosscountry... this sort of thing would really stand to them
 
Gosh, some people just have no clue! Lets instead not risk our horses at all, wrap them in stable bandages and pad the stable walls.

A lot of horses (especially young ones) struggle with the most basic flatwork when they start, and so you keep going to build up and so they learn. I've had young horses that struggled just cantering round corners, but I didn't gasp and lock them away forever as a "risk"!

Great fun, reminds me of being a kid and exploring the north york moors bareback with balertwine for reins
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Im old and boring looks like a good way to break bones of both the horse and human variety!!!! Not for me Im afraid, but each to their own I suppose.
 
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I take it you turn out your horse ?

A horse can break a leg in the field whilst "mucking about" .... a human can walk down steps and break a leg .

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No she lives in a big world of bubble wrap that I had specially built.
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Of course I turn her out I am aware that horses can break legs legs in the field and humans can break bones doing very mundane things. But as I am old and boring and the thought of jumping a 10cm cross pole makes me want to cry I will leave the ditch jumping to all you lot that still enjoy such activities.
 
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I take it you turn out your horse ?

A horse can break a leg in the field whilst "mucking about" .... a human can walk down steps and break a leg .

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No she lives in a big world of bubble wrap that I had specially built.
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Of course I turn her out I am aware that horses can break legs legs in the field and humans can break bones doing very mundane things. But as I am old and boring and the thought of jumping a 10cm cross pole makes me want to cry I will leave the ditch jumping to all you lot that still enjoy such activities.

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Oh I used to have one of them for my baby
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But she didn't like it much
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My point is ...I have seen horses do much worse things, jumping a few ditches is nothing .
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Jumping ditches is absolutely fine...cat leaping ditches from a standstill is idiotic. It's dangerous and it does not teach the horse anything about jumping.

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Jumping ditches is absolutely fine...cat leaping ditches from a standstill is idiotic. It's dangerous and it does not teach the horse anything about jumping.

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Thats how we jump them all the time out hunting - canter at an Essex ditch and you might get a nasty surprise. The horses learn to look, shuffle, gather, leap.
 
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looks a lot like hunting to me lol
good practice! it looks like fun!
oooh just seen thats its up near my cousins live doesnt look much like ireland for a while...too sunny

Why risk the one's that struggle?...so they get better if you dont try you cant improve either yourself or the horse

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Oh thank Goodness.

Thought I was going bl00dy mad there for a mo!

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Lol doesnt mean your not mad im afraid
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just that i too am mad and would be quite happy to try something like this in a shot
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beside's by the looks of the other videos their training young horses to event an crosscountry... this sort of thing would really stand to them

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Yes and riding them quite nicely, I think - sitting quiet and letting the horses work it out! I think doing work like this will actually protect your horse - make it think for itself, even if you don't jump/hunt just hacking you can find yourself up against some demanding stuff!
 
It should be compulsary for everyone to hunt in Ireland at least once, it'll either knock some sense into them or they'll take up knitting. Win, win.
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everyone looked like they were haveing fun. kids will be kids. everyone must have done something with their pony, that to day they look back at and think what was i doing.
 
I think it looks great fun when done sensibly and not stupidly, it makes a great difference
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I however, wouldn't have the guts to do it! haha
 
If you want to jump ditches go to Norfolk. Our hunt went visiting up there and the horses came back knowing how to jump a proper dyke!

We always walk to our ditches, loose reins holding the breastplate. The horses can have a good look at where to put their feet on landing and we don't interfere if we get left behind. None of those ditches looked bad, hard to tell on a video, the ones where the horse struggled were rider error not the horses or the ditches.
 
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