The barn I'm moving to has a decent xc course.. I'd say about 2-3 acres with different natural jumps of different heights. Unfortunately it was winter when I checked this barn out, and didn't feel the urge to trudge through 2' of snow to check out the course. But maybe this summer we'll play around on it and see if he has some sort of knack for it. He enjoys jumping though - hands down. I like lower level dressage, the cranked heads I seem to see in higher levels (rollkur?) turns me off from that so to combine jumping and lower dressage sounds so perfect. Plus, who doesn't like running through a huge grass field?

I'm from Canada, so I completely understand the Trillium - A circuit difference and it's a bit disappointing. I was hoping next summer to do the 2' class with my gelding on the trillium level. The politicalness of Hunters is ridiculous and I'm being very cautious when showing because I don't want to lose my "love" of showing. My best friend has lost it from years of showing hunters and just being worn down/fustrated by how political things are. I have the ability to have create connections - my current coach is a potential olympian, but I would never ever want to win a class because I tossed out a few names. No way. And if I run into a dead end and get stuck because of politics, I'll play with other disciplines to see if My gelding is willing to learn anything I throw at him (except roping - he's not even willing for that!). He's got big solid feet and hasn't been really lame at all. He's been sore, but that's been from either crashing & falling down onto/over a fence, and from losing a heavy shoe and the farrier took 4 days to come out, so he was sore for a bit. Other than that, he's never even been remotely lame. He's a trooper!

Is he conformationally built to take on the demands of eventing/hunter/jumper though? It's one thing to play around, but I'd eventually like to get into some heavy competition with him as he's my "show horse".
Personally, I think he's built pretty good considering he's the epitome of backyard breeding! His first owners pretty much said "lets put these two together because they can make babies!".

Here's some photos of his mom, a conformationally wreck!
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