Poor little girl...

[arabianequine]

Shes sure a trooper.....horse did not like that jump at all for some reason.

Why do they go over some and not others?

 

[Bantamlover23]

I feel for her. I have been in that postion before. Those my horse usually always got me off the first time. I have a quarter horse arabian cross that I used to do hunters with and I knew it was never his favorite dicipline, so he would refuse jumps from time to time.

 

[michickenwrangler]

Some horses like to jump and others don't. They also pick up on the rider's confidence.

 

[welsummerchicks]

Most horses and ponies start refusing after a while when they are not always ridden into the jump. It helps to get an older, quicker, stronger child on the horses/ponies frequently, so they don't get to doing things like this.

At most jumper barns, there is a swaggery little girl about as big as a twig who can make a milk cow jump five foot, rarely falls off, and thinks bucking, shying and rearing is 'funny'. If a barn doesn't have one, they usually are in need of one.