ooooh, go on then - what are you buying??? It is just like any horse, some jump, some are taught to and others just dont want to - they all can if they need to!!

Jude

hi katie, is the horse in your gallery the one you are buying? if so, he looks cute and have you asked if he has done any jumping?
rosie

Some of them definitely can jump - there was a lady in Leicestershire who used to hunt hers regularly.

The mare we had on loan before had jumped with her owner, and I show jumped her over small fences. I even took her hunting once, and while all the galloping about blew her brains somewhat (we have a photo of her with all four feet off the ground when I was trying to get her to trot down the road after the other horses ) she happily jumped cross country fences, even tho she had never done them before.
However, she would only jump if she felt like it, and woe betide you if you moved in the saddle on the approach.

If you're horse has done a bit of English, and will go forward from your leg into an 'english' contact, there's no reason not to have a go. But I would enlist the help of a sympathetic instructor - I once frightened the BSJA's head coach (a friend of our YM) to death when the mare jumped a fence and then did a sliding stop about 20yds after it - well she did ask me to stop

ROTFLMAO.................just shows you to be careful what you ask for!!!!

My QH adores jumping, locks on like a missile and cannot be turned away once he has seen his target!

I did see a half brother (also by Colonol Yo Yo) advertised a few months ago on Horsequest who was jumping at affiliated BSJA stuff. Then again I have been told that "Jack" was been thus nicknamed since he was Jack OUT of the box the night he was weaned, if this is accurate clearly he has always enjoyed his jumping....

Yep the horse in my gallery is the one Im buying. Hes passed the vetting just finalising everything. He did halter shows around Europe when he was a baby and now he will be teaching me western .