I think it was in a recent enough Disney teen/tweens film (don’t judge me, I love the cheesy romance storylines) - what appeared to be an upside down Pelham (or possibly even worse a Weymouth) with only one set of reins attached with no converters to the bottom ring. Horse was only standing tacked as though they were going riding - I didn’t actually see it being ridden in the film that way!!
I was watching some current popular TV show (Castle maybe…) and there was an episode with horses. The rich horse owner dressed up as if she was showing just to go rider her horse before breakfast. Oh and the horse that was supposed to be uber fancy race horse (which of course middle aged rich lady hacked around before breakfast sort of thing) was a very plain unfit unfancy horse.
Half the fun of watching horse movies is to freak out over errors!
At the end of Hidalgo when he’s setting him free to run with the Mustangs and you can see his shoes as he runs away. A friend of mine used to holler at the TV: “Right-o! Guess those will just fall off eventually!”
Someone mentioned upthread about Lightning the White Stallion. That movie is the BEST! I don’t think they bothered to use the same horse for any consecutive scenes. The best is when their competitors are cantering around a course and it’s a bay! Then it’s a chestnut! Then the rider is male! Lightning himself is any number of white/grey/ish horses, etc etc…
Moondance Alexander- they spoiled the ending in the trailer by showing the order they came in for the final jog of their hunter show. It’s been long enough that I don’t remember if they jogged them in the right order anyways 
Can’t remember the name, but there’s a movie where the main character is given a weanling mule to train. 6 months later he’s a fully broke adult trekking in the mountains. Similar in the movie Stormy, although they do allow a year or two between birth and top-of-the-line competitive endurance horse.
The TV show The Saddle Club. Starlight is supposed to be a bay, on the show he’s inexplicably buckskin. Doesn’t affect the plot like the Pie would have, but it caused a serious identity crisis for a horse-crazy tween who got all my info from horse books. I knew he wasn’t right, but he had a black mane and tail after all… could I have misread one of my beloved books??
I have to commend Secretariat though. As far as horse movies go, they weren’t too inconsistent. And I always cry at the final race.
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Just saw one that made me think of this thread. I was watching Sleepy Hollow, and the headless horseman rides in a western saddle.
Who knew that Russian soldiers during the birth of our country had western saddles?[/QUOTE]
This bothered me, too, until I realized that the Horseman stole that grey horse, and had to use whatever tack was already in the stable in this century. No way he could get Revolutionary War type tack in an instant.
Now, I hadn’t paid attention to the flashbacks… I’ll have to go check. 
Edited to add: OK, looked at the pictures on FB and IMDb and in the flashbacks they do seem to be using flat saddles.
If you watch as many old westerns as I find myself doing, pretty soon you start noticing the Indians with saddles with a blanket tossed over them.
I remember–sort of–a murder mystery TV show from a while ago where some fancy racehorse was involved. One of the “suspects” had to go feed the horses and wheeled a wheelbarrow down the aisle way shoveling oats into the horses stalls.
Good grief.
Then an episode of Magnum PI where there was some kind of show jumping championships. The jumps were about 3 feet high. Even my mother mentioned how silly it was.
And the rearing–more horses rear on film than they do in real life. And they always whinny when they rear. Why?
Agree with all the above.
But what makes me craziest of all. ALL things with horses it seems the horses are constantly whinnying.
Never in all my years with horses have I heard so much Chatter.
Unless it is feeding time. :lol:
In War Horse there is a seen where the bit/reins aren’t put together correctly. I can’t remember exactly what was wrong with it. It was wonky though.
The fact Starlight was a buckskin was a hangup, but the fact they were all suddenly Australian was okay?
And the wheelbarrow-o-oats and the fancy-dress rider were both Castle. My parents like the show but they found that episode…a bit silly. Okay, a lot silly.
A bit off topic, but a Jackie Chan movie with a koala chattering away like a monkey!!!
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Agree with all the above.
But what makes me craziest of all. ALL things with horses it seems the horses are constantly whinnying.
Never in all my years with horses have I heard so much Chatter.
Unless it is feeding time. :lol:[/QUOTE]
I used to think this as well. But now I lease at a barn that has a bunch of straight Egyptian Arabians and they “talk” CONSTANTLY. It just takes one bit of excitement (Hey, let’s all go get a drink of water! The hay man is coming! The trailer is moving! There is a new dog at the barn!) to set everyone off and within seconds at least 5 horses are neighing at the top of their lungs. Just the Arabians. They are Very. Dramatic. and clearly believe all the movie hype.
I have to agree with everyone else who mentioned the useless “chatter/noise” of horses on film - especially when I swear it’s ALL the same sound clips used about a million times!
One scene that REALLY bugs me is “the big race” in “The Black Stallion” - how many times can you switch from Woodbine to Santa Anita in one race and think no one will notice?
I wanted to slap the producers of The Black Stallion over that ridiculous helmet Alec wore for the match race.
Also - I can’t remember the film, but the opening scene features the birth of a long-anticipated foal, the one who is supposed to grow up to be The Great Racehorse Who Saves The Farm (nowadays that would be accomplished by selling him to to Coolmore or Japan).
Anyway, the foal is born with a horribly crooked leg. Much hand-wringing ensues as the vet arrives to examine the crooked leg. Vet pulls out his stethoscope to go look at the leg. Moments later he emerges from the stall, drying his hands. I once read a write-up of this scene by an actual equine vet, who wondered, “why the hand drying? Was his stethoscope wet?”
