Jumping is one of the most beautiful and athletic activities horses are capable of. A horse’s jump has five phases: approach, takeoff, flight (bascule), landing, and recovery. Horses can jump from any pace or a standstill, but they usually jump from the canter. All horses have the natural ability to jump, barring any physical disabilities, such as lameness or blindness. Jumping ability was necessary for survival before horses were house-trained. Some horses seem to truly love jumping. Jumping stresses muscles that support the leg during both push-off and landing. The impact of landing can also damage structures in the front feet.
This amazing picture illustrates jumping by the horse without a rider. The horse is in a flight posture, traveling up, forward, in an arc motion. His long thick neck extends forward and down as his powerful shoulders rotate. His focused ocular eye on the side of his face has lowered his head and neck to adjust his focus on the jump, resulting in plentiful pulls on his muscles, tendons, and ligaments systems, the back is just about to round.
The horse has oval-shaped hooves, a thick long line of short curly hairs in shaded blackish over the head and a long neck, long slender but very strong forelegs, a muscular and deep brown torso build, and a large elongated head with raised ears ideally sit on top of the skull. The jump looks as its last approach stride, as he lowers his withers and rotates his shoulder bone backward, raising, folding, and extending his forelegs in front of his body, preparing to plant them on the ground. The background of the painting is depicted in lustrous dark yellow denoting raging flames of fire and radiant deep sky blue signifying the seawater dousing those flames.
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