Breeding specifically for Pony Jumpers?

[poltroon]

[QUOTE=MuskokaLakesConnemaras;7066446]
They don’t have the hunters there like we do here. They also teach the kids solid basics and rateability early on. Very little of that occurs in NA.

(not to say they don’t have crappy kid riders… lol but not quite as many)[/QUOTE]

So your hypothesis is that we just don’t have quality professionals interested in bringing up kids via the pony jumpers?

[goodpony]

[QUOTE=poltroon;7066695]
So your hypothesis is that we just don’t have quality professionals interested in bringing up kids via the pony jumpers?[/QUOTE]

I dont think our kids are encouraged to stay on ponies long enough to be really competitive over the bigger fences on the larger ponies–not in the same way they do in other parts of the world.

[skyy]

My daughter has a pony that plays in all the rings - last fall she qualified on her for Pony Finals in the Eq, ribboned well in the Large Pony Hunters and this year she’s doing the Pony Jumpers. I think we’re sticking with the PJ’s just because my daughter prefers the thinking part that goes along with the jumper courses. This pony is brave, scopey and super adjustable and she’s well bred - she’s by Halcyon Sir Lancelot.

We bought her when my daughter was 10 (and the pony was 6) as a Children’s Hunter pony prospect never thinking she’d do more than that. I have my trainer to thank for seeing the potential in the pony and my daughter (who’s now 15) and for not pushing my daughter to move to a horse. Luckily, it appears the my daughter is going to remain pony sized so she plans on showing her until she ages out. Around here (Zone 2), the PJ’s fill at the A’s and AA’s so we’re lucky in that regard.