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== Anime and Manga ==
* Happens in a [[Filler]] episode of ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'', where Kenshin rode a horse over several ''boats'' to jump on a ''moving train''. The horse quickly gained the [[Fan Nickname]] of "Super Horse".
* Occurs in ''[[Sengoku Basara]]''; [[Cool Old Guy|Takeda Shingen]] decided that jumping over a 100+ foot wall while riding ''two horses'' just wouldn't be cool enough... [[Up to Eleven|so he charged up the wall instead]], [[media:sengoku-basara-anime-demotivational-poster-1265569052.jpg|gravity be damned]].
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** All of the above is nothing compared to the acrobatics horses get put through in [[The Movie]].
▲== Board Games ==
* The Knight piece in [[Chess]] (which has the appearance of the knight's horse) is the only piece that can jump over other pieces.▼
* [[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.
== Film ==
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* [[Inverted Trope]] in an unknown Indian movie in which the hero ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9OrL57T7dc&t=2m 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).
== Literature ==
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* In the final [[Time Scout]] book, Skeeter's horse jumps over a crashed wagon, but doesn't land well. In ''Wagers of Sin'', Skeeter jumps a horse over a small shrine, exciting the arena's crowd. Then he takes it [[Up to Eleven]] by standing on the horse's back and using a spear to pole vault over the wall, a moment of [[Horseback Heroism]].
* In ''The Saddle Club'', [[Alpha Bitch|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.
== Real Life ==▼
* There are several sports devoted to just this, two of which are in the Olympics. These would be Eventing and [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|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 [[Incredibly Lame Pun|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.▼
* Atlantic City's Steel Pier once hosted an exhibition of Horse ''Diving'', in which trained horses with female riders jumped off an elevated platform into a giant tank of water.▼
== Radio ==
* Subverted in ''[[The Goon Show]]'': "Dishonoured" (and remake "Dishonoured Again"), in which Bluebottle's noble stallion throws him into the ravine, much to his disgust.
== Tabletop Games ==
▲* The Knight piece in [[Chess]] (which has the appearance of the knight's horse) is the only piece that can jump over other pieces.
== Video Games ==
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** Applejack practices on a steeplechase-like course in 'The Last Roundup'.
** 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.}}
▲== Real Life ==
▲* There are several sports devoted to just this, two of which are in the Olympics. These would be Eventing and [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|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 [[Incredibly Lame Pun|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.
▲* Atlantic City's Steel Pier once hosted an exhibition of Horse ''Diving'', in which trained horses with female riders jumped off an elevated platform into a giant tank of water.
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