Monday, 14 March 2011
Temporary suspension of service
There will be a temporary suspension of service while I go south for my mum's 80th birthday, so meanwhile you can admire what a great hunter Radar turned out to be this season. Th first two pictures are the same hedge taken by two different photographers. In the third photo he still has two feet of drop to go before his feet hit the ground. He always jumps drops this way, with both front feet out until one connects with the floor, then he gallops away. The bit is a mikmar, a western bit, with a mouthpiece about and inch and a half wide. He came out very feisty this season, pulling hard, and he is much more controllable in this bit than a pelham. He was pulling so hard on the pelham that he was splitting his bars badly. In this bit, he pulls less and it causes much less damage.
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Wow! Doesn't look like much stops him and he looks so "catty" on his feet. Just goes to show what a difference it makes when you have a horse with the talent, will, and scope to do cross country jumping. He must be a blast to ride!!
ReplyDeleteI have to say "wow" too! That hedge must have tickled his tummy, it looks so high! To be a bold jumper I suppose you have to expect him to be strong in them mouth. Dave is very impressed too!
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ReplyDeleteThat's not a hedge, that's a monster!!!!
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Start again:-)))
ReplyDeleteFlip he looks like he's climbing that hedge!
Enjoy your trip..
Blimey that is HUGE!! What are star and how brave are you to do that?!!!
ReplyDeleteWow, he is just a weapon, bet he wins more and more admirers each time out!
ReplyDeleteAnd this woman says she doesn't have the nerve for big timber fences anymore???? Nothing would be this big, even 4* eventing!!
ReplyDeleteHe certainly has a fan club! I've been hunting with two different drag packs this year and with either of them he is one of only three or four horses which will jump things that big. Everyone knows his name.
ReplyDeleteTracey it's not the same when you know that they can scrape through the top! It is so much more forgiving if they hit them. And really so easy when the horse is pulling at you to get to the hedge even if there's a gate open and other people are going through it.
Nicola he got too close to that first one. As you can see from the second photo, which is the SAME jump a split second later he was going vertical and he did clear it, not go through it like it looks as if he will. Trouble was, if you go up that steep you come down at the same angle, and the next week I had forward facing safety stirrups on!
Just got back from my Mum's 80th birthday and it went OK. 12 hours travel, but we survived.
C.
That photo is incredible he looks like he will never get over it. I never had the nerve to drag hunt just did it the old fashioned way. The thing about drag hunting is with a preset trail it is truly like the charge of the lifebrigade. Your either very brave or have no fear what so ever. :0)
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