Monday Video: A Greenie’s First Cross Country School

From formerly wild Mustangs to off-the-track Thoroughbreds and lots in between, five-star eventer Elisa Wallace knows a thing or two about introducing a green horse to jumping. She recently took one of her newest OTTB prospect, I Reckon So a.k.a. Ricky, a 2014 gelding (Redeemed – Thrilled N Delighted, by Friendly Lover for his first cross country school. From the first steps into a water complex, through refusals at spooky fences, to Ricky’s first look at a ditch, Elisa walks us through the learning processes and the successes of their excursion.