Fleeceworks Thursday AM Feed: ‘Dressage Prospect’

What’s the old gag? If it can’t jump, market it as a “dressage prospect?”

Yeah, let’s go with that. Free jumping can be a valuable experience to allow a horse to stretch its own jumping, figure out how to place its feet or to let the owners discover if a horse has real jumping potential. Often, free jumping is a source of beautiful images or videos of horses soaring over massive fences, their bascule picture-perfect, knees square as they take flight.

And sometimes, they prove to be perhaps a bit more of a disappointment: (note — must be logged in to Facebook to view).

Oops. As my husband stating while looking over my shoulder, “it’s like when someone goes to dunk a basketball and really, really misses.” (No horses were harmed in the making of this video!)

Go riding!