I’m sure all y’all are sick of me and my “Pony’s first xxxxx!” posts, but I can’t help myself, she’s so cute! 
I was supposed to go with the pony to my friend’s ranch today, but it is going to be too hot to trailer down and ride in the middle of the day. So what better way to spend my morning’s ride than by jumping my pony for the first time?
Just about everything I’ve done with her I’ve done solo. First ride on her I was alone, first trail ride I was alone, and now for the first jumping session I was alone. Sometimes I just get a bee in my bonnet that today is a good day to try something new and so I just do it. Thankfully, Princess Fancy Pants, aka Pony, is a wonderful pony and perfect amateur’s horse in that she doesn’t try any funny business. Mr. PoPo was away at a bike race today, so why the heck not? :winkgrin:
I went about setting up poles and standards out in my trails out back. I picked a nice flat spot that has some trees on either side and that has good footing. I set up two trot poles, then a space for a take-off stride, then a ground pole between two standards. We walked and trotted through it a couple times. Then I put up one pole for half a cross rail and trotted over that twice. Then I put up the other pole for a little cross rail and trotted that twice. She was perfect so I called it on that and we went and picked up rocks that I spotted on other parts of the trail.
Of course in between everything you see on the video we were walking, trotting, and cantering, but I’m sure that 45 minutes of nothing interspersed with two minutes of pole work/jumping wouldn’t make for a very fun video!
Good thing I didn’t do it on the back trail that border’s my neighbors’ property. They were out there playing soccer with their kids and that might have been too much for a first-time jumping session! :eek:
LOVE!
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