What to do with yearling who keeps jumping out of field

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sallyellis

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as per title really, I have had my yearling filly since she was 6 months old. A month after she arrived she jumped a concrete water tank with an iron bar which must be 4 foot high into the next field sending me into panic (I thought she had been stolen) this stopped for a while but last week she decided she was fed up with my mares company and jumped my electric fence into my geldings field, no big problems there as they were only seperated as he is better to catch on his own. Then today I got to stables to find she had jumped into the neighbouring field again over 4 foot of fence....grrrr anybody want her?
 
I hope you bought her for jumping and not dressage!
It sounds like she has already decided what she is doing when she grows up?
 
get some electric fence and touch her nose on it. put it around the edge of the field she keeps jumping out.

she most likely wont go near it after that!
 
I feel a trip for some 6ft eleccy stakes coming on, just make sure she can't jump the gap inbetween the top line and the next one as I have seen it done.
 
Mine periodically escapes, we just let her free range - its getting less now as shes getting too tall to slither under the fencing so easily now!!!!
 
the fences she is jumping are electric! she knows they sting and will back away from the fences normally....she obviously thinks that by jumping them she wont get buzzed. Oh and by the way I bought her for showing and dressage hopefully as I dont jump any more due to having a bad back, the neighbour whos field she jumped into says she wants her for her daughter as they jump but she isnt for sale...YET!
 
video her doing it and use it in an advert to sell her as a jumping prospect?
Sorry couldn't resist - taller posts and an extra line of fencing would be the only way to stop her I would have thought.
 
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