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Olympic two-time gold-medalist Joe Fargis once said, “It’s not very often that you put a horse in a field with a bunch of jumps and he’ll jump around in a beautiful pattern.”

Horses have no understanding of why they trot around in endless circles, start and stop at a particular place, or jump fence after fence. Jumping is not something that interests them. They would prefer to eat and sleep and run around on their own time. Many horses are quite talented jumpers and do a very good job, but the work is never a deliberate choice they make.

We teach horses to jump. We are the reason they do it. Therefore, we have a huge responsibility to do our part as best we can, so that the horse’s end of the deal is as comfortable as possible.

3.1 When we ride, we take the horses out of their natural, normal environment and ask them to do things that they have no reason to do.