History Main / HorseJump

This, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin believe it or not]], is about jumping over things on horses. Deep ravines are a perennial favorite, though other things can be substituted. It probably helps if your [[CoolHorse horse is cooler than average]]. Quite often, writers will not see any particular difference between making a jump with a horse and [[RampJump making it with a vehicle]], since everyone knows horses are just [[AutomatonHorses an old-fashioned type of motorbike]] anyway.

* ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' features this at times for some reason.

** Most of the cast effortlessly hop over a ravine while climbing mountains in 'Dragonshy', but Fluttershy balks. After much cajoling, she tries, panics, fails ... [[spoiler:and just ''spans'' the gap, it being shorter than her outstretched legs. Not to mention as a pegasus she could easily ''fly'' over.]]

** In the second season Masamune, Motochika pretty much ''fly'' over a ravine on horseback.

* Occurs in ''SengokuBasara''; [[CoolOldGuy Takeda Shingen]] decided that jumping over a 100+ foot wall while riding two horses just wouldn't be cool enough... [[BeyondTheImpossible so he charged ''up'' the wall instead]], [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sengoku-basara-anime-demotivational-poster-1265569052.jpg gravity be damned]].

* When [[{{Crank}} Chev Chelios]] and his girlfriend Eve are having sex on the trackfield to create static electricity for his ensured living, a horse jumps over them and Eve and the viewers get to view [[GagPenis a horse-dong]].

* {{Subverted|Trope}} for laughs in ''TrueLies'': {{Arnold|Schwarzenegger}}'s character tries to follow the bad guy (who had made a motorcycle jump into a pool several hundred stories down), but the horse balks and stops short, pitching Arnold off the saddle and almost to his death.

* {{Invert|edTrope}} in an unknown Indian movie in which the hero ''slides his horse sideways under a truck.'' And then keeps riding.

* This comes up at the climax of ''{{Shadow Of The Colossus}}''. Subversion - [[spoiler:the horse doesn't make it.]]

* Hilariously {{subverted|Trope}} in ''TrueLies'': {{Arnold|Schwarzenegger}}'s character tries to follow the bad guy (who had made a motorcycle jump into a pool several hundred stories down), but the horse balks and stops short, pitching Arnold off the saddle and almost to his death.

* Ridiculously {{invert|edTrope}} in an unknown Indian movie in which the hero ''slides his horse sideways under a truck.'' And then keeps riding.

* ''TheLegendOfZelda: Ocarina of Time'', with Link riding Epona and jumping the canyon in Gerudo Valley. And escaping the stables after beating Ingo.

* In the ''LooneyTunes'' short "Buckaroo Bugs", a cowboy looking for Bugs Bunny jumps wider and wider gorges (thanks to the assistance of Bugs, who keeps shouting "He went this way") until he jumps over the Grand Canyon. He doesn't quite make it.

* Occurs in ''SengokuBasara''. [[CoolOldGuy Takeda Shingen]] decided that jumping over a 100+ foot wall while riding two horses just wouldn't be cool enough... [[BeyondTheImpossible so he charged ''up'' the wall instead]], [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sengoku-basara-anime-demotivational-poster-1265569052.jpg gravity be damned]].

* ''SengokuBasara''. Just... ''[[BeyondTheImpossible Sengoku Basara]]''.
** [[CoolOldGuy Takeda Shingen]] decided that jumping over a 100+ foot wall while riding two horses just wouldn't be cool enough... so he charged ''up'' the wall instead, [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sengoku-basara-anime-demotivational-poster-1265569052.jpg gravity be damned]].

* [[LuckyLuke Lucky Luke]]'s horse Jolly Jumper got his name as showed in the story ''Lucky Kid''. A young Lucky Luke on a young Jolly Jumper is fleeing from a lot of wild buffalo, when they come to a cliff. Jolly Jumper jump over, but the buffaloes fall down.

* In ''StarTrek Generations'', Kirk twice has his horse dramatically jump over a ditch. This is most likely an excuse to [[TheCastShowoff show off]] WilliamShatner's truly exceptional equestrian skills.
* Hilariously [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in ''TrueLies'': Arnold's character tries to follow the bad guy (who had made a motorcycle jump into a pool several hundred stories down), but the horse balks and stops short, pitching Arnold off the saddle and almost to his death.

* Ridiculously [[InvertedTrope inverted]] in an unknown Indian movie in which the hero ''slides his horse sideways under a truck.'' And then keeps riding.
* Sonora Webster, the heroine of ''Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken'', learns to dive horses off a high platform into a tank of water as a carnival attraction. (See also the Atlantic City example in the Real Life section below; the high point of Sonora's career as a diving girl comes when she performs in Atlantic City.)

* People who attempt this in TamoraPierce's ''[[TortallUniverse Tortall]]'' novels tend to end up badly. In the ''Alanna'' quartet, this brings about the demise of [[spoiler:King Roald]], although this is largely viewed as a suicide because of his grief at the death of his wife. In the ''Alianne'' duology, this is how Sarai and Dove's mother died, as revealed through {{backstory}}.

* Beatrice in [=~Leonardo's Swans~=].

* In ''The Silver Brumby'' in an odd way; Thowra makes it look like he's going to jump a ravine, but instead drops down to a small ledge on the cliff face. Arrow, who was chasing him at the time, attempts to jump the ravine and falls to his death.

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** The death rates in eventing have mostly to do not with any inherent danger in jumping (steeplechasing in general has a LOWER fatality rate, at least for the horses, than flat racing, for example) than with, unlike show jumping and ring jumping, many obstacles being extremely solid, while the fences in show jumping or hunter classes are just balanced poles that fall easily when touched. The danger is not the water or ditches most of the time, but tables and heavy timber fences. Jumping a horse is actually not especially difficult or dangerous (this troper has her only-recently-ex racehorse jumping low oxers after nine months off the track); attempting to jump a VERY solid timber fence at high speed is [[IncrediblyLamePun a horse of a different color.]] If they hit the fence wrong, the horse does what's called a rotational fall, which often results in a broken back or shoulder for the horse (fatal injuries) and far too often a crushed rider when the rider's thrown forward and the horse falls on top of them. In show jumping, generally the worst that will happen if you hit a fence is you'll fall. Fox hunters always have the option of not jumping an obstacle, and as they're not being timed are not as much under pressure as eventers.

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* Sonora Webster, the heroine of ''Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken'' learns to dive horses off a high platform into a tank of water as a carnival attraction. (See also the Atlantic City example in the Real Life section below; the high point of Sonora's career as a diving girl comes when she performs in Atlantic City.)

* ''Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken'' features diving horses; the heroine, Sonora, learns to dive horses off a high platform into a tank of water as a carnival attraction. (See also the Atlantic City example in the Real Life section below.)