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I'm just curious as to whether people can advise or have previous experience of this ??
I bought a Hungarian warmblood x Lippizaner out of the Furioso lines last summer and adore him - we're really clicked and have had a great time hacking out and doing little bits together .... he's rising 11 years old and came with a bit of previous history ....
His previous owners imported him from Hungary as a 4 year old and he was broken to drive - they competed him as a pair in 3 day driving trials to quite a decent level but found he was becoming too strong and unruly whilst being driven, so he was then retired from driving and broken to ride (approx 3 years ago). He started his ridden career in dressage but the girl riding him was very slight and was advised he was too strong and to look for something else resulting in him being turned away in the field until some friends of mine acquired him in January last year ....
I'm aware that whilst going through his driving career he would not have done any jumping whatsoever and as far as i know he has not been jumped since been broken to ride .... i am interested in whether it would be too late to establish this with him ??
We have schooled over trotting/ canter poles with no issues - he didnt even look at them or try to run around them - only once was there an issue when the pole was raised, he tapped it and spooked at the noise causing a bit of unbalance etc ... (possibly more my fault too as i'm still relatively rusty riding wise after a 10 year break lol) I've also loose schooled him and he jumped fine over a 2ft upright - again not looking at it and actually showing a really nice shape ...
The only thing that makes me doubt is that on a couple of occasions out hacking we've had a bit of a mixed reaction to little jumps we've come across (tbh they probably weren't sneezing over lol) - one was a blocked in railway sleeper that he had to go over - and instead of stepping he jumped .... yet the log we came across he more ran out at it than jumped it ....
I'm just curious as to whether jumping would be too late to achieve ??
We've mainly schooled and hacked out - although we did do our first "stressage" competition in July and were placed 3rd in our class ....
i however, am no longer competitive and would just like to enjoy some hacking, small cross countries and a few days hunting .....
Any advice please ???
I bought a Hungarian warmblood x Lippizaner out of the Furioso lines last summer and adore him - we're really clicked and have had a great time hacking out and doing little bits together .... he's rising 11 years old and came with a bit of previous history ....
His previous owners imported him from Hungary as a 4 year old and he was broken to drive - they competed him as a pair in 3 day driving trials to quite a decent level but found he was becoming too strong and unruly whilst being driven, so he was then retired from driving and broken to ride (approx 3 years ago). He started his ridden career in dressage but the girl riding him was very slight and was advised he was too strong and to look for something else resulting in him being turned away in the field until some friends of mine acquired him in January last year ....
I'm aware that whilst going through his driving career he would not have done any jumping whatsoever and as far as i know he has not been jumped since been broken to ride .... i am interested in whether it would be too late to establish this with him ??
We have schooled over trotting/ canter poles with no issues - he didnt even look at them or try to run around them - only once was there an issue when the pole was raised, he tapped it and spooked at the noise causing a bit of unbalance etc ... (possibly more my fault too as i'm still relatively rusty riding wise after a 10 year break lol) I've also loose schooled him and he jumped fine over a 2ft upright - again not looking at it and actually showing a really nice shape ...
The only thing that makes me doubt is that on a couple of occasions out hacking we've had a bit of a mixed reaction to little jumps we've come across (tbh they probably weren't sneezing over lol) - one was a blocked in railway sleeper that he had to go over - and instead of stepping he jumped .... yet the log we came across he more ran out at it than jumped it ....
I'm just curious as to whether jumping would be too late to achieve ??
We've mainly schooled and hacked out - although we did do our first "stressage" competition in July and were placed 3rd in our class ....
i however, am no longer competitive and would just like to enjoy some hacking, small cross countries and a few days hunting .....
Any advice please ???
