Dancer's first jumping lesson, a set on Flickr.
After a discussion with Liz Geldard who owns Dancer the other day, I thought it was about time Dancer had his first jumping lesson.
As you can imagine poles and wings are not something you would easily find in a dressage yard, but find them Liz and Mum did and we headed out to the lovely outdoor school.
I started his session by schooling round random poles on the ground, he was a bit lookey at first but soon got used to them and he wouldn't go near the wings at the side of the school. Then after about about 15 minutes of schooling on the flat and through the poles, we gently went over the first. He didn't want to but with some encouragement he went over, eventually we managed to trot over all the poles in the school in a very relaxed way. Then we put the jump wings in on their own and just got him schooling between those, gradually we added a pole on the ground, then two poles and then a little cross pole. He looked at the cross pole but I told him to go and he trusted me. We jumped that cross pole a handful of times and finished on a good note without over doing it. I was so so pleased with him, very little resistance and he learned so quickly.
Another bonus of going over to Fiona Bigwoods to jump Dancer was to see the two beautiful foals born this week. Pictures above.
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