Free Jumping Irish Sport Horse 11/25/07

2006 Irish Sport Horse stud colt Azrael plays with some tiny fences. Our main focus was just to have fun and see how Ozzy would take the gymnastic. Obviously, he didn't have a problem with it. ;)

Special thanks to Melinda for filming and helping build the gymnastic. :) Can't wait to see the video you make of Duncan from this day!

And by the way...

The following excerpt by Volker Ehlers, Vice President of Glenwood Farms Hanoverians, Inc., and an international Grand Prix rider, gives a well thought-out and
practical regimen for teaching free Jumping to your horse. The full article can be found at: http://www.nawpn.org/freejumping.pdf

"At the start of teaching free jumping, it is important to adjust the distance between the jumps
according to the stride of the horse. At this point we do not try to teach the horse to adjust his
stride to a difficult distance. Even though we have talked about 21 feet as being one stride length
between fences, it is a little bit difficult to talk about the exact number of feet to put between the
two poles. The length of stride depends upon the horse. If it is a yearling, the stride would be
approximately 18 feet. If it is a two year old, the stride would be 18-20 feet. A three year old
should have 21 feet as the distance between two small fences. Some people might raise their
eyebrows at the free jumping of a yearling or two year old. If you keep the fences simple and low
and the encouragement easy, nothing bad will happen to the young horse. If you are raising
jumpers, it is important to evaluate the potential of your offspring. If they have no talent for
jumping, you can see it early enough and decide that your horse is more suitable for dressage.
Always think that free jumping is on one hand a tool to determine if your horse is a jumper
prospect or, on the other hand, a gymnastic exercise and a change of routine for your dressage
horse."

End of discussion.

2006 Irish Sport Horse stud colt Azrael plays with some tiny fences. Our main focus was just to have fun and see how Ozzy would take the gymnastic. Obviously, he didn't have a problem with it. ;)

Special thanks to Melinda for filming and helping build the gymnastic. :) Can't wait to see the video you make of Duncan from this day!

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Horse
• Riding
• Colt
• Irish
• Sport
• Warmblood
• Free
• Jumping
• Freejumping
• Horseback
• Equine
• Ozzy
• Azrael

[ridinghigh03]

why did u put the bit at the start? great video and lovely horsexxxx

[xxxligeiaxxx]

@ridinghigh03 The intro was for all the "lovely people" who gave me a hard time about a previous video I had made.

[xxxligeiaxxx]

@ridinghigh03 Thank you for your kind words though!

[crazyhorselover121]

BUTIFUL QUICK LEARNER!!

[xxxligeiaxxx]

Thanks! He's grown a lot since this video was taken. Check out some of our new stuff if you have time! :)

[rodeoqueen1300]

he is such an awesome horse! I love how you put 'no really mom, i want to play in the mud.' it just matches his personality!

[xxxligeiaxxx]

Oh you couldn't be more right! Hahaha! This video is really old at this point--check out our new stuff to see how far he's come--he's under saddle at this point! :) We'll be making another free-jumping video when he turns 3 in a few days! :)

[KaylaS911]

Irish Sport Horse <333

[BlazingAva]

I love how you take your time with him. He looked a little wild in the lunge but sport horses can get a lot of energy up. I think you did really good.

[NaturalJumper1032]

Beautiful horse and nice jumper., :)

[16handsoffunfunfun]

stunning jumper!!

[pebblesrocks97]

nice jump.

[craziehorse2]

amazing

[iluvmyhorserocky]

thats such a pretty horse i want him!