Banana and I had a rather spectacular parting of ways today. We'd trailered over to our lesson in Hunterland. She was very awake, but settled. We were going over a ground pole, jump, then ground pole. Everything was well: tiny vertical, tiny oxer, slightly larger vertical, slightly larger oxer, 2'3" vertical. Then, when it became a 2'3" oxer Naners didn't bother picking up her legs at all and demolished the jump. She fell, sliding across the sand. I rolled off before she hit, rolling away. There is sand in every crevice of the saddle and I had a good amount down my breeches. After that she was hesitant to approach anything looking like a jump. Trainer had to lead us at a walk over the tiny 6" flower boxes that we've been jumping successfully (with rails on top) for weeks.
The lack of picking up her feet was something she did when she was green, but hasn't done in quite a awhile. That makes it even more concerning to me, because it came out of nowhere.
I don't think jumping her is going to be wise. It's not like she tried to jump and misjudged: she didn't even try. I am, of course, shaken a bit and might feel differently in a couple of days. But, I expect the horse under me to jump the jump, not run at it and try to run through it.
I'm sorry :( That sounds really rough
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