lol, I read the 5 foot thing and remembered the story of how he did it and was sitting here giggling. He used to jump 3'6" as a hunter (3+ hour) and one day there was a group of people going over one of the jumps and there was not enough room for him (he was apparently packing around a total noob) and just jumped the barb wire fence instead, the hunt master said she about fell off her horse laughing about the kids face and the horse looking back at the fence in suprise.

It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts! ~Nicholas Evans