Show Jumping with Finnhorses

The origins of the Finnhorse (also called Finnish Horse, Finnish Universal, (fi.) Suomen hevonen or suokki) date back about 2000 years. It is said to be one of the fastest and most versatile cold bloods in the world:

http://www.suomenhevonen.info/hippos/sh2007/pdf/SHjulkaisu_englanti_nettiin.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnhorse

The modern studbook of the Finnhorse breed was established in 1907. To celebrate the 100th anniversary there was a special show jumping class for Finnhorses at the Sea Horse Week (18-22.7. 2007) in Hanko, Finland. Because other similar competitions were held at the same time and because there was only one class exclusively for Finnhorses, the participants were only 8.

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• Finnhorse
• Finnish
• horse
• Suomen
• hevonen
• suokki
• Finsk
• häst
• finnhäst
• pferd
• cheval
• show
• jumping
• Seahorse
• Week
• 2007

[westphalianprinz]

In English speaking countries, no one would use a cold-blooded horse for anything like that. Remember, most of our show horses have at least some Arab breeding.

[Havshexan]

Finnhorses that are used for show jumping generally jump about 90-100 cm, but some even jump as high as hot bloods. I guess that says something about the finnhors really beeing an ALLROUND breed. But there are different breed lines within the race, some less adapted for jumping. Most finnhorses today are racing horses = trotters. Before the mechanization of farming most were heavier draft horses.

[Lumeveraja]

Hey, it's a fact that warmbloods are, on average, better jumpers than Finns. But that doesn't prevent us, crazy Finnish people, from using our very own horse for show jumping :D And some Finns truly are really good jumpers.

If you'd just know how amazingly friendly, cooperative, and nice character the Finnhorses have...

[staceyxoxo23]

awwe they are soo cute!!

[AuntOtus]

My aunt had a very chubby Finnhorse who was not ridable. He was also really small. I got one of the biggest wtf moments when i saw him jumping over a 150 cm high fence just to get to the other side to eat grass.

[LinzMeBR]

Awwwwss.... Riemuliini ;)

[0Lauriina0]

I agree with you. And ofc some warmbloods jump better than some Finnhorses - Finnhorses are draft horses. So I see at least one difference.

I'm glad I'm Finn - my plans of buying own Finnhorse are easy to perform :D

Suomalainen voittaa aina.

[hevoshullu1000]

Crazyhousegirls: i agree....

[Caditalover]

Finnhästar är bäst :D

[KrystinaAndAustin]

What a rotten little creature of a rider at 4:25 kicking and pulling like it'll get the poor thing to jump the spread from a standstill.

[Jefrma]

If you ask me, finns are a lot like fjords, when it comes to their build: there are so many types! :) but like fjords, they can be used on any horsesport :D

[KrystinaAndAustin]

they seem a little too long-backed in general to be that great of jumpers.