Amber jumped her first vertical!!

[BurningAmber]

I got Amber in November, when I got her she was extremely green broke and had only been walked and lightly trotted under saddle. She is a 5 year old old Percheron/thoroughbred mare (shes a big girl to carry my fat butt, haha) So we've been taking things really slow with her, she just started learning to canter under saddle in June, and 2 weeks ago we started with her jumping training (shes been doing trotting poles all along) so I've been working her over lines and grids of small crossrails, and today we did out first vertical, it was only about 18" but she went right over, no hesitation, what a good girl!! Let me know what you think (i know my form is suckish, but I was concentrating more on her)

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Best Picture!
http://i432.photobucket.com/albums/qq42/AmberLynn520/AmberJumping150.jpg

[cloudandmatrix]

yay- you're back!!! she looks lovely as always and well done- u two so work well together!!! bet she will be a great little jumper!lovely pop on her! can we have a jake update too- people have missed him!

[-x-laurrie-x-]

Fantastic progress, congratulations!

Your position doesn't look at all suckish either :)

ETA: Your 100th post! Yays!!!! :D

[beating_hooves]

Aww she's popping right over that! Sounds like you are taking it nice and steady with her, definately the best way to go about it :)