which is way out of our affordability
However there are some Morgans who can jump, daughter’s first Buckskin (15.2h) could easily clear five foot six inch jumps, we found out after we kept finding him in the paddock with one of the mares. Daughter thought I was putting him in and I thought she was that was until we saw him jump in. After that she had set up a chute with an obstacle at the end, she kept increasing the height finally stopping at 5’ 6" He just thought it was fun.
He was primarily used in Eventing, His personal problem was complete lack of respect for stadium jumps which he at times would think were not worthy of his abilities . But on an open course of fixed obstacles he easily cleared those.
Yes. I understand that most often a 17h plus Warmblood is the horse of choice, but we actually never bought a horse for a specific use or discipline
Unlike most all other horse purchasers we normally are not looking for a specific use. We do look for horse lines that have a record of versatility finding one breeder whose products aligned with our uses
Only the First Morgan we bought was bought for a specific use. That horse taught us to be flexible in what we think. That horse actually did everything But her intended use even though her blood lines spoke solely of that use. (She was purchased to be our kids English Pleasure horse, never did that but won multiple national titles in various disciplines)
We found that it was better to see what the horse wanted to do, but nearly all have been open to whatever we wanted them to do. Major fault is the amount of tack each horse can have. Often the same horse has a dressage saddle, a hunt saddle, a western saddle, and usually a light weight competitive trail saddle. The harnesses that most were broke to using was repurposed to each horse.
We have pretty much just settled into Sport Horses uses
