Yay!! I've done it!

[Nickijem]

At last I have plucked up the courage to pop Jerry over a jump!
I haven't had chance til now as I don't have a school so I have to use the field and it has been too wet til this week. Yesterday I cantered over a pole on the ground so today I popped over a x-pole then put the pole straight and popped over that too!
It was all of 18 inches too!

(don't laugh!)

 

[ajn1610]

Good for you Nicki!

 

[Nickijem]

Thanks ajn - I have been putting off trying him over a jump because I think too much about 'what if...?'
I have imagined him tanking off with me after a jump, putting in a massive buck after the jump or just catleaping and jumping me out of the saddle. (all things I have experienced in the past on other horses)
But Jerry was just brilliant - he just popped over it fluently at canter and carried on cantering on the circle after the jump - no bucks, no tanking off and no unnecessary cat-leaps!!