Who jumped it best: Black Mares Edition!
For this week’s jump school grid, we employed both slowing elements and going elements. The bounces inhibit momentum a bit, and the 2-strides to an oxer after lengthen the stride.
This tests a forward horse’s adjustability downward, and a kick-ride’s responsiveness to the leg.
Both Sydney (first) and Tempi (second) took this exercise for a cruise yesterday. Who do YOU think jumped it better?
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We’re back with the 2024/25 Episodes of “Fran Rides This Week’s Jump School Exercise on Tempi at Absurd heights”.
This week’s group had a lot of variability in experience between both riders and horses, and one of the best ways I know to help a mixed group is to challenge the rideability with low fences.
The trot poles and transitions before and after challenged horses and riders to be proactive in their planning. The long, single-fence approaches and “thread the needle” spaces challenged riders to choose and trust a base pace, as well as stay straight and focused on the back side of the fences, and the transition in the long, straight line between the two fences strengthened the half-half and taught the horses to check in rather than rushing.
All riders did a phenomenal job!
And, here is Tempi showing how rideable a spicy show jumper actually can be 😅
Thanks, all, for coming, and we’ll see you for the next one!
Jump schoolers—thanks for joining us this past weekend! That was awfully fun!
I have several verbal commitments for next weekend, but no school horse reservations in place. Please get me your RSVPs by Thursday evening, so I can post groups by Friday!
Also, I have 3 verbal commitments, but no formal sign ups in hand for a the Learn to Jump series! If you’re intending to join us for that, the series must be paid for in full prior to November 8th in order to consider the spot held. Cash, Venmo and checks accepted, Venmo is strongly preferred.
Thanks everyone for your enthusiasm—it feels so fun to feel this community of jumpers rebuilding!
Johnny Goes Cross Country Schooling!
Surprise! He’s perfect in the field, too! Johnny didn’t miss a beat XC schooling today!
JC: Lawyer Jon
2007 Thoroughbred Gelding
16.1hh
UTD on all cares.
Johnny has evented through novice as well as done straight dressage through second level. He is pleasant to handle in the barn, absolutely chill under tack and in day to day affairs, and lives in a mixed herd of mares and geldings without creating drama.
He is sound and comfortable with minimal maintenance so don’t let his age spook you!
This guy is going to make an excellent step-up horse for a kid off a pony, or for an adult amateur in a program.
Low 5 figures beginning with a 12. And proving to be worth Every. Single. Penny.
More videos available upon request.
Johnny Jumps!
Who is looking for a seriously good citizen?
Johnny (JC: Lawyer Jon) showed us his jumping acumen this week. In an effort to gain a feel for his willingness and adaptability, I put a student on him instead of filming myself in the tack. Shyann has riding her whole life, but is a season or so into her jumping lessons. Johnny, with a smile on his face, rose to the occasion, didn’t bat an eye at the new fences, and absolutely would have kept going.
We’ll try out the XC this coming week, but I have a pretty good feeling. This is the horse trainers of kids and adult amateurs are BEGGING you to buy.
12,🥕🥕🥕 slightly negotiable for quick sale this fall.
Why we had baling twine and no halter is a whole different discussion to be had with the facility upkeep manager, and a certain problem child of a gate (iykyk, LilliCrest Style) … 🙄🤦♀️🤪
“Easy to handle” ✅🤣
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Bold. Forward. Willing. Ri’s first off-property XC school with us. This mare is a born event horse. Osseo, WI. 25🥕🥕🥕. #lillicrestfarm #lillicresteventing #lillicrestequestrian #hanoverian #hanoveriansofinstagram #eventersofinstagram #eventer #eventhorse #eventhorseforsale
Our girl jumps, too!
Ferriana
🌟2011 Hanoverian Mare by Ferro
🌟16.1hh
🌟Eventer, Jumper, Dressage Horse
🌟Forward, Bold, Powerful, Smart
🌟Good for vet, farrier, practitioners
🌟UTD On all cares
Seeking confident, ambitious, experienced amateur, or pro on a budget. Powerful, smart and sensitive mare, tons of grit and truly a girl’s girl, but not for those who value and demand a more passive ride. Has evented, show jumped, and done straight dressage, loves to jump but no disdain for flatwork either.
25🥕🥕🥕, priority given to the best match possible and will increase with show season.
Osseo, WI
@untetheredspiritsfarm
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We weren’t ready for it to jump like that 😳
🐍 Ferriana, 2011 Hanoverian Mare.
🐍Jumper, Eventer, Dressage Horse
🐍Scope for Dayssss
🐍25 🥕🥕🥕
🐍Osseo, WI
🐍 Reputation Girlie…probably 🖤
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Ferriana
🌟2011 Hanoverian Mare by Ferro
🌟16.1hh
🌟Eventer, Jumper, Dressage Horse
🌟Forward, Bold, Powerful, Smart
🌟Good for vet, farrier, practitioners
🌟UTD On all cares
Seeking confident, ambitious, experienced amateur, or pro on a budget. Powerful, smart and sensitive mare, tons of grit and truly a girl’s girl, but not for those who value and demand a more passive ride. Has evented, show jumped, and done straight dressage, loves to jump but no disdain for flatwork either.
25🥕🥕🥕, priority given to the best match possible and will increase with show season.
Osseo, WI
@untetheredspiritsfarm
#lillicrestequestrian #lillicrestsales #sporthorseforsale #hanoverian #hanoveriansofinstagram #eventhorse #eventhorseforsale #showjumperforsale #dressagehorseforsale
Monday Motivation and another “Fran and Tempi ride last week’s jump school exercise”.
At jump school this Saturday, we talked about the importance of straight lines and circles in training, and the types of horses that are naturally inclined to thrive in each. Straight lines can be very tricky for the hot tamale types as their adrenaline tends to carry the action for them and it can be like riding a downhill wheelbarrow getting to the end of the line! These horses, however, love exercises with bends, arcs and circles as those shapes naturally activate the parasympathetic nervous system in a soothing way, each time the inside hind leg crosses the midline.
On the other hand, thoughtful, methodical horses often thrive on straight line exercises because it gives them a point of origin and a point of purpose and a puzzle to solve between. These horses often lose steam through turns and circles because they’re already thoughtful, and bends are boring!
Watching this video and tell me…do you think Tempi is more of a “straight line” or a “circle horse”. I’ll give you a hint. How she looks now is not how she is innately 😉
Here is another “Fran and Tempi do this past week’s jump school exercise”.
This exercise is an accuracy-induced doozy, even as poles on the ground. I first did this one with my then-coach, Len, in about 2015. I remember him chuckling and saying “This one knocks the green off of ‘em real quick.”
The combined elements of this being a series of angled lines, along with gynmanstically close requires a rider to have a very rhythmic (or a very rateable!) canter established.
A straight, deliberate focus and an awareness of the middles of the fences is essential. I will say, halfway through teaching this Saturday I realized it might have been unkind to use the solid, not striped rails 🤭
Finally in order for this to pan out well in an indoor, even one as big as this one, one must ride all the way to the rail after and not get caught up cutting corners.
Rhythmic gaits ✅
Strong, straight focus ✅
Commitment to a line ✅
Smart use of arena space ✅
What do you observe in my ride on Tempi?
