History Main / HorseJump

* In ''Royal Flash,'' {{Flashman}} gets into a crosscountry race with Otto von Bismarck that involves several horse jumps over hedges and ditches.

** In another episode, the cast jumps across another ravine through convenient stone pillars. One of the pillars falls before Twilight can get across, and the hydra that was chasing them was getting closer. [[spoiler: Twilight obviously doesn't make the jump, but the swamp at the bottom produces an enormous bubble that catches her and propels her all the way up]].

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

* People who attempt this in TamoraPierce's ''{{Tortall|Universe}}'' 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}}.

* In ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'', 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.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', with Link riding Epona and jumping the canyon in Gerudo Valley, and escaping the stables after beating Ingo.

* LuckyLuke'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.

If a MoodyMount refuses to do this, it's HorsingAround.

** ''TwilightPrincess'' too, with several low gates and fences that you need to jump to advance the game. The open areas are also littered with truncated walls and hedges that can be jumped if you feel like it.

* ''ToyStory2'' features ShowWithinAShow ''"Woody's Roundup"'' where he and Bullseye the horse jump over the ravine in order to get to Jessie and Stinky Pete. Unfortunately, the episode ends on a cliffhanger with the pair still in mid-air and the show got cancelled.

* There are several sports devoted to just this, two of which are in the Olympics. These would be Eventing and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Show Jumping]]. Additionally you have Hunters and Equitation, two ring-based equestrian events involving jumping obstacles, and Foxhunting, which takes place out in the field. Jumping into water and over ditches actually occurs in Eventing and some foxhunts. But it's also super dangerous, and Eventing in particular has come under recent scrutiny with its high death rates.
** 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory 2'' features ShowWithinAShow ''"Woody's Roundup"'' where he and Bullseye the horse jump over the ravine in order to get to Jessie and Stinky Pete. Unfortunately, the episode ends on a cliffhanger with the pair still in mid-air and the show got cancelled.

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

This, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin believe it or not]], is about jumping over things on horses.[[note]]I know. I thought it would be about jumping ''over'' horses too.[[/note]] 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.

This, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin believe it or not]], is about jumping over things on horses.[[hottip:*:I know. I thought it would be about jumping ''over'' horses too.]] 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.

* Happens in a {{Filler}} episode of ''RurouniKenshin'', where Kenshin rode a horse over several ''boats'' to jump on a ''moving train''. The horse quickly gained the FanNickname of "Super Horse".

* ''ToyStory 2'' features ShowWithinAShow ''"Woody's Roundup"'' where he and Bullseye the horse jump over the ravine in order to get to Jessie and Stinky Pete. Unfortunately, the episode ends on a cliffhanger with the pair still in mid-air and the show got cancelled.

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** In the second season Masamune, Motochika and their armies pretty much ''fly'' over a ravine on horseback.
** All of the above is nothing compared to the acrobatics horses get put through in TheMovie.

* In ''The Saddle Club'', [[AlphaBitch Veronica]] had been showing a disregard for the Stable Owner's instructions concerning jumping and ends up breaking her arm, and causing her horse to suffer a fatal injury after running her horse too fast downhill for the jump.

* This comes up at the climax of ''{{Shadow Of The Colossus}}''. Subversion - [[spoiler:the horse doesn't make it. Or rather, he did make it, but the ground gave away when he landed.]]

* 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 that last one.

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* When [[Film/{{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]].

* In ''StarTrekGenerations'', 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.

* {{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 stories down), but the horse balks and stops short, pitching Arnold off the saddle and almost to his death.

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

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

* 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]].

* The Knight piece in {{Chess}} (which has the appearance of the knight's horse) is the only piece that can jump over other pieces.

* ''TheLegendOfZelda: Ocarina of Time'', with Link riding Epona and jumping the canyon in Gerudo Valley, and escaping the stables after beating Ingo.
* In ''{{Wild ARMs 3}}'', in order to get to areas on the map blocked by ravines, your party will need to get horses that will allow them to jump across.

This, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin believe it or not]], is about jumping over things on horses[[hottip:*:I know. I thought it would be about jumping ''over'' horses too.]]. 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.