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The Warm Up

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Training Pandora
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Horse: Pandora
Breed: Thoroughbred
Age: 10
Rider: Jessica Kylar
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Watercolour on paper
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Pandora gingerly stepped over the obstacles laying on the ground. "She's a natural!" Exclaimed Jessica excitedly as she turned the long retired race horse around to approach the poles from the opposite side.

Tony, while being generally unexperienced in the arts of training jumpers was quite impressed as well with the mare. "Yup... She's good all right. Why don't we try something a little more challenging?" He said as he walked across the grass where they were training, purely temporary, she was the only jumper so they didn't feel they needed to build an arena just yet.

Across the top of two overturned buckets (the joys of non-pro jumper training!) Tony laid one of the poles, it was about a foot off the ground.

"Okay try her over this one here Jess. She should be able to do it just great!"

Jess kicked Pandora into a trot and went wide once around the jump before circling around and aiming the mare for it. Even the slightest hesitation could have thrown Pandora into a fit leading up to the jump, but Jessica remained collected and the mare hopped over with considerable ease.

"We'll have to practice A LOT more, but she should be ready for the competition."
Image size
800x780px 670.28 KB
Make
SONY
Model
DSC-S700
Shutter Speed
1/60 second
Aperture
F/2.8
Focal Length
6 mm
ISO Speed
100
Date Taken
Oct 14, 2009, 7:17:06 PM
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Hathien603's avatar
Pandora! Woooo! :dance:
I'd love to see her as a jumper, that'd just make my day :D
Really great conformation, she looks nicely balanced. Jessica perched on her looks awesome too, humans are hard to place on horses, she looks very focused ^^ Nice perspective on those poles too, a lot of people can't do it like that!