Mulee Analysis

Deep in the Ozarks where I grew up, so far back in the woods they had to pipe in sunlight, mules were the preferred mode of transportation for coon hunts. A horse doesn't make as good a hunting animal as a mule, and coon hunters don't ride the mule over the fence like English fox hunters, but instead lead the mule up to the fence, and the mule jumps from a standing start.
You’ve got to see it to believe it.
Where I came from, if you had a good mule, you had a good thing. Good hunting mules aren’t born, they’re trained. And like a good woman, you’ll get better results if you use sugar rather than whipping. Trust us on this one. It's not too hard to train a mule if you get him when just a colt and if he hasn't been ruined by being whipped by someone trying to make him jump. As the old saying goes, “You can tell a horse, but you've got to ask a mule."
It only takes about an hour to teach a mule to jump. The easiest way to train a mule to jump is to lower the jump to about knee high. Then all you have to do is treat him with sugar cubes when he jumps, raising the jump at