erika wrote:
HP my understanding from the OP is that the person would be looking to perhaps pop over a very small jump now and then for shits and giggles. 
Would enjoy w-t-c, pottering around, maybe a jump here and there but certainly nothing over, say, 2".
You don't need a horse who excels at jumping to be able to do this, just a horse who is reasonably co-ordinated enough to get himself over a jump safely if he's asked. You can find individuals in pretty much any breed who is capable of handling the kind of "jumping" the OP's friend is interested in doing.
Agreed, here.  I think I described her as "competent advanced beginner", which in my head is w-t-c, and baby hunter over fences with adequate form, and without harm to the horse. She (in the past) done hunter courses in the 2'6" range and gotten a ribbon or two at schooling shows both over fences and in equitation.  Once she gets her horsey sea legs back, she won't fall off just because Fluffy chips in over that little X, or just plain can't find a spot.  If she decides to do one or two for fun once in a while.  Jumping will be an incidental, not a goal. If this was to ever come to pass, that is. Which isn't really particularly likely in the forseeable future.

I'm not perceptibly more advanced than she is, and I was the lucky gal who first took one of the schoolies over little fences.  Not. Pretty.  Some sort of morbidly obese carriage horse refugee that got frightened by seeing his own (paddling) hooves whenever we cantered. So not exactly a GP prospect.  If I could stick with that, my friend can survive some spazzy gaited attempt at a little obstacle.

That said, HP, I do appreciate that you're considering her needs so thoroughly. Maybe just a bit too thoroughly, is all.  Tiny fences might make up 2 or 3 percent of her riding time, in this semi-hypothetical situation.

CHG