Tuesday, November 6, 2012

The 'Stick It' Seat

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.

3 comments:

  1. 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...

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    1. Indeed there is. The actual round starts around 1:10
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHTTwjcs3WU&list=UUd0VBPOof2xzDsCCZYTZLRA

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    2. Haha, wow. She makes that "one stride" look easy. Love ride, though. :)

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