Puzzled by the word scope within the context of horses? So was I, before I got to know what it meant. The only meanings for scope I knew were optical instruments like rifle scopes and telescopes and the scale of an activity or chance.
When horse riders speak of scope, they're talking about a horse's fence jumping abilities. A horse is said to be 'scopey' when it takes jumps effortlessly.
As you can understand, scope is invaluable in the show world, particularly show jumping. Horse owners, trainers and riders are constantly on the lookout for outstandingly scopey horses. They desire horses that negotiate the largest obstacles without raising a sweat. Heights in some classes can surpass 1.60m, therefore the scopier a horse is, the better that its possibilities of coming home with one or two certificates. Gifted, really scopey horses aren't common, and can be particularly expensive. Great equine athletes are just as rare as great human ones. A human Sotomayor comes along every once in a lifetime or two, and so does an equine Genuine. Both are fantastically scopey.
Get one thing straight, though. Not all horses are scopey to the same extent. Not all horses are of Olympic class in their gifts. You can make judgments on a horse's scopiness only in the context of its classes of competition. You could be talking about a pony that has established a reputation for being scopey in children's jumpers without quite having the talent to move further. Everything is relative.
However , scope is one of the prerequisites for good jumpers. They also have to exercise due care. A horse that exercises due care is a horse that tries to jump cleanly, without hitting the jumps. Scope without care is like speed without direction, something similar to a tragedy waiting to happen. The inverse holds good, of course: care without scope is like direction without speed. You won't be getting anywhere.
When horse riders speak of scope, they're talking about a horse's fence jumping abilities. A horse is said to be 'scopey' when it takes jumps effortlessly.
As you can understand, scope is invaluable in the show world, particularly show jumping. Horse owners, trainers and riders are constantly on the lookout for outstandingly scopey horses. They desire horses that negotiate the largest obstacles without raising a sweat. Heights in some classes can surpass 1.60m, therefore the scopier a horse is, the better that its possibilities of coming home with one or two certificates. Gifted, really scopey horses aren't common, and can be particularly expensive. Great equine athletes are just as rare as great human ones. A human Sotomayor comes along every once in a lifetime or two, and so does an equine Genuine. Both are fantastically scopey.
Get one thing straight, though. Not all horses are scopey to the same extent. Not all horses are of Olympic class in their gifts. You can make judgments on a horse's scopiness only in the context of its classes of competition. You could be talking about a pony that has established a reputation for being scopey in children's jumpers without quite having the talent to move further. Everything is relative.
However , scope is one of the prerequisites for good jumpers. They also have to exercise due care. A horse that exercises due care is a horse that tries to jump cleanly, without hitting the jumps. Scope without care is like speed without direction, something similar to a tragedy waiting to happen. The inverse holds good, of course: care without scope is like direction without speed. You won't be getting anywhere.
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