Day 2

With the Southern sun beating down on us we began our second day by working 3 horses in the jumping chute. For those who don't know what that's is, a jumping chute is an area where the horse is sent to a set of poles or jumps and allows them to jump without a rider. This gives young horses their first introduction to jumping yet allowing them to figure out where to put their feet on there own. The first video is a 2 year old who had been in the Chute once before but never jumped.

This video shows the progression of how we built and took the steps of asking this young horse to jump. 

This second video is of a 3 year old who has jumped in the chute before. She is much more confident and understands the idea of the chute. 

This is the last horse we jumped In the chute. This was a 2 year old who had never been in the chute before. As you can tell he is much more hesitant to jump but by the end he was jumping clean and understood the idea of the chute. 

Linda taught two lessons again in the afternoon. I was able to ride an incredible little grey mare. We jumped around a small grid before the rain came and quickly ushered us inside. To my unbelief the farms in South Carolina don't have indoor arena's. I suppose it makes sense... No snow, no  cold, no need! But after talking with barn owners in the area, the never miss a day of riding without the use of an indoor arena! Needless to say this gives me a greater desire to *ahem* MOVE SOUTH!  

PS: I apologize for the slow posting, learning to blog on my phone has cause more problems than I care to explain. :)