puissance

1. (equestrianism) The high-jump component of the sport of show jumping.Examples: "It was in Dublin that San Lucas scored his first success in what has become something of a speciality for him, the puissance."; "Pat [Moss] then went to Oxford to qualify for the Horse of the Year Show, and Danny was fourth in the Puissance, an event with very high jumps."; "In a study of horses during a puissance competition that started at a height of 1.80 m and ended in the last round at 2.27 m, success was significantly positively correlated with the following variables at lift-off: vertical velocity of CM, height of CM, distance of CM from the fence; and was significantly negatively correlated with the distance of the leading hind limb to the CM."countableuncountable