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Yeah he seems to like his new job. He's also a quick learner and good about picking his feet up. He's 16.3 hands and naturally athletic so he's already jumping the same height jumps that our 2 Morgans are, and they've been training as hunter/jumpers since the summer of 2006 so he's got the potential to be a really nice horse. When I first got him he was underweight and had quarter cracks and horrible ground manners. When I went to look at him to buy him I didn't want him until I got on and rode him and I guess it was love at first ride, lol. He's had his issues but luckily he's turned out to be a diamond in the rough.
Jumping is so much fun! I really enjoy it, it's way better than flat work and dressage. I started out jumping on lesson horses and made it up to 2'6" until we got a trailer and started hauling our horses in to lessons. They were pretty green and had never jumped so we had to start all over again, back at groundpoles. But I really think training my own horses to jump has made me a better rider because with the lesson horses I was getting to do higher jumps but most of them were easier to ride and had a lot of mileage. Now Romeo and my sister's palomino Morgan Chance and my little Morgan mare Belle have started jumping 2' consistently and done their first oxers so we're getting back up there. My goal is to have Romeo jumping at least 2'6" if not 3' by the end of the year.
The funnest riding ever though, I have a good friend/mentor who used to be a jockey and she gave me most of her old riding stuff, including her jockey saddle. So I put that on Belle (not Romeo, as he is track sour) and practice in that. It's so much fun! Well sorry to write a novel. I'm bad about that.

Let us run with perseverance the race that is marked out for us.
-Heb 12:1