Showjumping: insane saves -- the Oxer TwoStep!

Remarkable footage of two different horses putting their feet into the middle of gigantic oxers (spread-jumps) and bouncing out, for a clean round!

Scene One:
PIÑON KATJA - Mark Laskin
(0:40 into the video clip)
1995 Brookside Classic

Scene Two:
EVEREST TWOSTEP - Michael Whitaker
(1:49 into the video clip)
1995 du Maurier Limited International

The fence at which TwoStep performed his twostep, was the bogey of the course-- nearly all the horses who had faults throughout that course, got them on that particular fence. It was a 5'3"tall-6'6"wide oxer positioned in front of the in-gate but angled away from it. Every horse wanted to drift towards the in-gate, and if that wasn't corrected before liftoff, then they would have to jump the fence at an angle, increasing the spread that they would have to cover by a tremendous (and usually insurmountable) margin. The du Maurier truly was THE professionals' championship of the showjumping world!

Another spectacular clear round on this same course can be seen here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0iNpmz-qdsg
"Easy Boy: 1995 du Maurier Limited International"

Katja went on to place 3rd in the jumpoff, whereas (the aptly named!) TwoStep went on to win, what was at that time, the richest grand prix showjumping competition in the world!


As always, don't forget to check out the crazily-cute baby of the barn:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIcs9k1E0RY

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Showjumping
• Grand
• Prix
• Equestrian
• Horses
• Oxer
• Spruce
• Meadows
• Nick
• Skelton
• Pinon
• two
• step
• two-step
• twostep
• 2step
• 2-step

[Mollykia]

the fucking video is lagging sooo mutch!

[ImmortalSynn]

@Mollykia

Then blame yourself for using a crap computer. It plays just fine for me and apparently everyone else.

[palominoponiz]

OMG! i luuuuuuuvvvvvvvvvvv that horse! <3

[ImmortalSynn]

@palominoponiz

...which one?

[KeeneDressage]

What Heart! What honest amazing horses to try that hard! Just goes to show, you can't force a horse to do this, they really love their jobs!

[ImmortalSynn]

@randylahey14

Yes, keep going: as in, where is he now? Granted, I haven't been looking as hard as possible, but I rarely see him in int'l competition nowadays.

Have some vids of him with Pinon Sullivan that I really need to get around to uploading too.

[randylahey14]

@bella131517 The first rider happened to be the top rider in Canada 4 years in a row in the 80s, one of the all time most successful riders in Spruce Meadows history, a 2007 showjumping Hall of Fame inductee, a 1980 gold-medal olympian... Want me to keep going?

[stardustmypony]

ah i love the whiitiker family, their all amazing riders, make be proud to be british :D

[bella131517]

the second rider is much better than the first but holy crap those are one of a kind horses

[bigloverxD]

amazing and beautiful. Those two words make up horse jumping.

[PsychoPoniesPa]

ive seen this in so many shows.. its amazing!! it must be so har for them!

[csisco2091]

omg that's amazing!

[ADAM246813579]

Great video works ok on my phone !