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Cross-Country: The Test of Stamina, Strength, and Courage

Published by GHC • Nov 13th, 2007 • Category: Junior Blogger Archives, Showing and Sport

by Tori, age 12

cross-country.gifCross-Country, in my opinion, is one of the hardest forms of riding. Horse and rider are faced with a challenging course filled with many different jumps. They have water jumpes, jumps with ditches in the middle, jumps that zig-zag, etc.

Now let’s go through the three main things you need before you do cross-country. Those things are stamina, strength, and courage.

Stamina - Horses need loads (when I say loads, I really mean LOADS) of stamina before they can do cross-country as most jumps are very high. Also, they need lots of stamina for the many yards they will gallop over.

Strength - Strength is needed in both horse and rider when doing cross-country. Riders need the strength to stay on, and horses need the strength to jump over the long and high jumps.

Courage - Courage is the key to being a good cross-country horse and rider. Courage is needed way more then strength and stamina. You can’t do well if you don’t have courage!

Wikipedia says: Cross-country equestrian jumping is an endurance test, and is one of the three phases of the sport of eventing; it may also be a competition in its own right, known as hunter trials or simply “cross-country” - these tend to be lower level, local competitions. The object of the endurance test is to prove the speed, endurance and jumping ability of the true cross-country horse when he is well trained and brought to the peak of condition. At the same time, it demonstrates the rider’s knowledge of pace and the use of this horse across country.

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  1. Tori on November 13th, 2007

    Yay! I thought this blog would never get published! Thanx LeadMare and staff :D!!!!!

  2. Jeanna on November 13th, 2007

    Cool! I never did cross country before, but I do practice endurance racing. Aren’t they pretty much the same thing? :-/

  3. horsejo on November 13th, 2007

    Amazingly amazing. Nice.

  4. Madelaina on November 13th, 2007

    Fantastic Tori! I love this blog, you’ve brought me one step higher up knowledge bar. Keep it up!

  5. Marisa on November 14th, 2007

    I’ve heard of this before, it looks so dangerous!
    Congratulations, Tori! Great job!

  6. horsejo on November 14th, 2007

    Short and to the point. I like it.

  7. Tori on November 14th, 2007

    Jeanna: Not quite sure…..I’ll look it up though.

    Thanx everyone xx

  8. Horsecrazzz on November 14th, 2007

    Good Job Tori!

  9. Anonymous on November 16th, 2007

    thanks Tori. Great blog by the way! {:D}

  10. Tori on November 17th, 2007

    :D Thanx Anonymous xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

  11. Jeanna Briggs on November 17th, 2007

    Your welcome. Sorry about the Anonymous, I forgot to type my name
    :-/