Opinions! Curious about opinions on the best English discipline

[Bellebelle]

So, I has a pretty heated debate with someone about eventers, dressage riders, and jumpers. I personally think, and this is in no way shape or form a diss at dressage riders or any other discipline, but I think eventers are the best riders of the english discipline. I also know a lot of jumpers at least used to be eventers (can’t remember who though). Now, I’m a jumper myself but watching eventers just ride my own discipline and besides that doing pretty high level dressage (not grand prix) AND cross country leaves me stunned. I just feel they tend to be super well rounded but its my opinion so please don’t get angry xp

I would love to hear others thoughts on this! Also if anyone knows the jumpers who had been eventers and are now at the top please leave a comment! I completely forgot their names

[Texarkana]

Talk about a can of worms…

[Bellebelle]

Yeah if this topic does cause a fight I will delete it, I by no means want people fighting or getting too heated about it

[horseshorseshorseshorses]

Eventers are the best. DUH!

Let’s just ignore working cow horse riders and combined driving and working equitation and all the other riders who do multiple disciplines.

[Bellebelle]

As I said, i never meant any disrespect and I’m not an eventer myself. I just simply observed and thought that eventers seem to be the most well rounded. Though working equitation i consider really hard to do as well and something that requires quite a lot of skill.

And i also said english riders so thats why i didn’t mention reiners, cow ropers, pleasure riders, etc

[horseshorseshorseshorses]

Oh, no disrespect implied. Eventers are the best.

[OfCourseItsAnAlter]

How do you define “best?”

I probably wouldn’t argue if you said that eventers have the most diverse skills, but a flat out blanket statement that eventers are the “best” riders among the English disciplines? Nope. I can’t agree with that.

[Equibrit]

Jack of all trades…

Do you imagine that those who chose one discipline to compete at, have abandoned the rest ?

Eventers are also very good at being shite; https://www.facebook.com/groups/shiteventersunite/

[Janet]

I don’t think you can delet a whole topic.

[SillyHorse]

So, this is cross-posted on the HJ and Dressage forums. Don’t feed the trolls!

[LilRanger]

@Bellebelle

And i also said english riders so thats why i didn’t mention reiners, cow ropers, pleasure riders, etc

Why aren’t pleasure riders English riders? Does this include fox hunters? If not, why not?

[skydy]

@Bellebelle

And i also said english riders so thats why i didn’t mention reiners, cow ropers, pleasure riders, etc

“Cow ropers”? That is an odd description that brings to mind a rather strange picture. I can see them now, the Holsteins, udders swinging to and fro, a thundering herd, running away from the charging quarter horses as the riders rope those “cows”.