Pretty impressive! I want that horse!
Okay, honestly that is VERY impressive but the “pushing old Geezer hood” part of me keeps saying “just because you can’ doesn’t mean you should!!” though adding this to the National Equitation finals might make it a crowd pleaser. 
Lets just hope there won’t be copycats on YouTube.
It won him the class, so it was a good move, but I can’t even comprehend inventing such a trick, not even when I was young and bulletproof. The best part of the trick is that there’s no possibility of a saddle horn in the belly when you’re sitting backwards…though getting said saddle horn in my backbone seems just about as painful.
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Rodrigo did it better and he didn’t need to have a chute to make the horse jump (though granted he was not shooting guns while doing it)
They write he was reserve champion?
I wonder what the champion did!
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That’s impressive! But I don’t know what you mean by “didn’t need to have a chute”. That isn’t a chute, it’s basically a small square ring. That horse could easily have avoided jumping out of it. The trainer is Sid Zacharias and I saw the video on FB, can’t get it to post here. He jumped out of that area and dismounted at the lope, hopped back on, and at one point turned backwards again but was in front of the saddle (which seems dangerous for a guy to do). It was pretty impressive. He and his brother used to train around here, but may have moved out of state.
This is how you shoot at the posse on your way out of town.
