Leaping Mounts: Jump check?

[eternalglory]

Hello! I'm trying to make a mounted fighter and I came across the rules for leap in the Ride skill description:
"You can get your mount to leap obstacles as part of its movement. If the ride (not capitalized) check to make the leap succeeds, make a check using your Ride modifier or the mount's | jump modifier |, whichever is lower, to see how far the creature can jump."
So, what the heck is a jump modifier? I'm guessing this is a bad port from 3.5 that didn't update this to ''mount's Acrobatics modifier for jumping, whichever is lower", or something of the sort. Or should this use the Acrobatics modifier using Strength instead of Dexterity?

[Drejk]

Jumping is a function of Acrobatics skill but as (almost) all mounts have higher speed than 30 feet they apply extra modifiers so it isn't a straight Acrobatics check.

[eternalglory]

Then shouldn't it be called an Acrobatics check?

[Jeraa]

eternalglory wrote:

Then shouldn't it be called an Acrobatics check?

Some bonuses only apply to specific uses of a skill. For example, the jump spell only applies to Acrobatics checks made to jump. So a jump modifier would be your normal Acrobatic skill, plus any bonuses that apply specifically to jumping.

[CoI]

Please pardon the slight threadjack, but what about long jumping a wagon? How would that work? Use the ride rules but use handle animal instead?

[eternalglory]

This is whatever the DM wants, I'd guess. Handle Animal sounds good, with 'jump' nodufier, but - for the weight of the wagon.