Cadence is a scopey jumper. She's also a pretty brave jumper. This combination has made for some pretty interesting fences! These are a few of my favourites that have been caught on camera. Complete with my desperate attempts to hold on...
Above: If cou look closely in the area underneath Cadence's barrel...you can see my coach. The actual jump is just behind her hind legs. It was a little (2') red bench...
Below: This one doesn't look that spectacular/bizzarre without the perspective of the other horses jumping the fence. She took off WAY out, its just hard to see from this angle.
Above: our whole course looked a bit like that.... except for the last two fences :P
Below: my all time favourite! First jump of her second or third xc school.
Above: NOT what you want in a hunter round....
Below: Cadence putting one stride in a 36 foot line at champs. She cleared the fence....
Above: first fence at Champs. She rocked that course!
Below: Umm.... she just took a long spot. And over jumped
Two more photos from the same school as the one on the top. What a mare.
She's definitely an athlete and so are you for staying with her, yikes! Any chance there's video of that championship round? Inquiring minds...
ReplyDeleteIndeed there is. The actual round starts around 1:10
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Haha, wow. She makes that "one stride" look easy. Love ride, though. :)
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