About a month ago there was an add on a local FaceBook group for jumps for sale. We have plenty of standards and poles, but not a whole lot of filler so when I saw that they had multiple boxes for sale I claimed two of them. After driving up and getting them I set them up in arena with a plan to lunge McKenna over them and jump them with Tia. But then the girls went lame and that never happened.
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| Obviously they were terrifying |
McKenna's all healed up and sound after the abscess and has PLENTY of energy from her two week vacation so I figured it was time to introduce her to the boxes. I started by free jumping her over a crossrail then move it up to a vertical. Once I dragged the box over she thoroughly inspected it and took a taste test or two. I asked her to trot around and she immediately went right to the jump and popped over with no problem. I had her do it a few times at the height set in the pic then put it up a few holes.
This time the mare was all over it. I barely stepped back from readjusting it and clucked to her and she took a few canter strides and jumped it the opposite way I had set. Then she landed, went around the corner, did an awesomely tight rollback and came directly back to the fence. I'm so upset I didn't get it on camera! It was something out of a jump off, they way she sat on her hind end and flipped around. And best of all, I just stood there and watched her, I didn't have to do anything. The mare has definite talent as a jumper.
She probably went around on her own 3 or 4 times before I actually had to ask her to stop. She was happy to keep on jumping and didn't need any encouragement from me. I guess I didn't need to worry that she's be scared of the boxes or fill.
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| I really like how the gif slows down and you can see her form. She doesn't normally have that much hang time. |
Love the new box! She's jumping great over it.
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