… who cries watching a good test, no matter the level? So beautiful. I used to be embarrassed by the tears but now I don’t care.
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No you are not. I do too. It’s easy to get choked up when you see it done right.
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If the music is right.
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I cry when people reach their goals.
I went and saw Cool Runnings by myself. I worked weekends when everyone else is off.
It was school holiday time and the theatre was packed with kids.
When they picked that sled up to walk to the finish line I was streaming with tears. At least it was pretty dark.
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Fuego at the WEG made me cry. Not a perfect test but the music was just so perfect for him.
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OMG…ME TOO Pony_baloney. That music and his rider was obviously very proud of him at the end. I still get goose bumps
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Me too! Whenever I periodically re-watch that ride I just can’t help it.
I volunteered at WEG KY and I was on a dinner break during the freestyle final. Just hearing the music & the reactions of the crowd from outside the stadium was enough to have me emotional lol.
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Always!!
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Nope, every single time. But especially Charlotte & Blueberry and Tamie & Lexus.
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Tests? I’ve teared up at transitions! It was my horse with my (now gone, sadly) trainer on her, but her canter-trot transitions can be some of the most perfect things I’ve ever seen. I had not seen him ride her in months at that point, because if I made it out I was the one riding, and I saw them have what I think was a 10 transition and started tearing up!
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So proud that he almost did a butt dismount!
Almost doesn’t count.
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During most tests you could hear a pin drop. Fuego had everyone cheering.
The movements look so much more natural from him than other breeds. They’re just built for it.
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I was lucky enough to see that Fuego ride, and Totilas a few times, CD and Valegro… and recently Lottie and Glamourdale. All of them brought tears.
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No tears generally, but i saw a freestyle exhibition ride to “One Moment in Time” in the 90’s at WIHS (i recalled as by Carol Lavell and Gifted) that I thought was really special. No vocals were allowed in competition at the time. I tried to find it on YouTube and found Robert Dover in 1988, so maybe the one I saw was him (or Lavell?) reproducing that ride (I wasn’t spectating WIHS in the 80’s). It isn’t flashy by today’s standards, and there are some mistakes, but it is soft and lovely, harmonious, etc.
The Fuego ride was really fun. I saw them do that kur in the Olympics first and found vids of WEG after. The Olympics ride was great, but didn’t have the overflowing joy of the WEG ride. So so fun.
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Many, many years ago I saw the real Lipizzaners of the Spanish Riding School in person in DC.
Definitely a bucket list thing.
It was a crazy weekend. I took a trailer load of kids and ponies to a horse trial, unloaded, set up stalls, walked the cross country course with the kids, checked into a hotel, got in a car with then hubby and BFF and drove 2 and 1/2 hours to the then Cap Center. And hit traffic so was running late and was absolutely frantic that I would miss this bucket list show.
We were walking up the steps to our seats in the Cap Center when the entrance music played and the horses came in and I just started crying. Relief that we had made it in time, the realization that the horses were actually dancing to the music, not just responding to their riders, how stunning the horses are, all of it. And I cried on and off through the whole performance.
I decided I should either stop riding all together because I could never achieve that harmony or sell everything I owned and sleep in a stall and dedicate myself to improving my riding…
After the show was over, we drove back from DC, I got approximately 3 hours sleep and then went to warm up the kids for their dressage tests. BFF drove home, then hubby slept in at the hotel and then went home. (ETA: He did bring me coffee and a muffin at the horse trial before he left, he wasn’t a total monster.)
Totally worth it. Would do it again, though I’d probably die from the sleep deprivation.
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