When we school the yearlings and 2 year olds we loose lunge them in the indoor. What that means is that we command them to walk trot or canter and dictate which way they go, but we allow them the full use of the arena. they are not restricted by a lunge line. I don't like to lunge them until they are 3 years old as the circle can be hard on their legs and I can teach them a lot with out the lunge line.
We have become a bit relaxed about shutting all the doors since our kick board doors are 5' high and no one has ever tried to jump out.
Well on Saturday our yearling Francesca decided to jump out of the arena. She just leaped around the turn as if she was circling half the arena and made the most beautiful jump out. She was just cantering, not galloping so it really surprised me.
She was very calm and easy to catch. She just walked back into the barn.
we then shut all the doors and allowed her to go around again to make sure she was really confident and she was fine.
needless to say we'll be shutting the doors every time from now on. I haven't had a horse like that in a long time but if they know they can jump they don't think anything of jumping out of a ring or paddock.
I think she is quite athletic.
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