:eek: Yikes!
Masterfully ridden! :applause:
I had my own (tamer) version when I placed 4th at a Horse Trial.
We looked like that Hunt scene from Mame:
“She’s passing the Master! Shes passing the hounds!!!”
Had to fight to keep Himself in place behind the 1st,2nd & 3rd-placed horses :o
There’s a rodeo out there somewhere that wants to make an offer … :lol:
holy cats! :eek:
I LOVE the pat at the end. What a good rider 
Not sure I would want to pat him after he misbehaved, unless she thought that was fun and worth praising him for it?
He really meant business there.
She kept staying on and keeping his head up.
She could not shoo him on too well, as he kept repeating his circus act if given a chance.
Good for her to take it in stride, considering where they were.
Definitively not the place to make an issue of that goofy horse moment.
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Not sure I would want to pat him after he misbehaved, unless she thought that was fun and worth praising him for it?
He really meant business there.
She kept staying on and keeping his head up.
She could not shoo him on too well, as he kept repeating his circus act if given a chance.
Good for her to take it in stride, considering where they were.
Definitively not the place to make an issue of that goofy horse moment.[/QUOTE]
I’m not necessarily a supporter of a horse’s expressing his “joy” as shown in the video, but the rider was an excellent rider, obviously rode it well and didn’t seem intimidated by it…so why not a pat? I still say the horse was NOT being bad, just expressing joy…and the rider let him express his opinion.
The horse showed no “rodeo antics” of a bucking horse like twisting and turning trying to get the ridder off.
If you look at the horse, all his “leaping” is just what a horse does when taking a jump…And if you shut your eyes, you could have easily seen a rider with an independent seat following a horse thru a series of gymnastic obstacles. I actually had to rewind to see if the horse actually didn’t take a jump…it was beautiful jumping form.
And since I’m breaking a 3 yrs old just under saddle…being able to “follow” the horse with an independent seat (something I have to continuously work at) is a quality to be desired in any good horseman…and yes, I wish I had that rider’s seat and tact.
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Not sure I would want to pat him after he misbehaved, unless she thought that was fun and worth praising him for it?[/QUOTE]
I think it was a “thank you for the whoa” pat. It wasn’t just the quarter sheet that got his dander up, it was the tail cord snapped back on itself tickling his left thigh. That could have been a very bad wreck if the steering had failed.
yes, the tail cord upset him and he couldn’t get away from it. She handled it beautifully.
Not her first rodeo, apparently.
Masterfully ridden!
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I think it was a “thank you for the whoa” pat. It wasn’t just the quarter sheet that got his dander up, it was the tail cord snapped back on itself tickling his left thigh. That could have been a very bad wreck if the steering had failed.[/QUOTE]
Yes. I didn’t see “joy”, I saw a horse not happy with everything that was on him, be it the ribbon or the sheet. He was pissed and the rider handled it very, very well.
I’ve seen other videos of this pair. The horse just does that, with or without quarter sheet. Very sticky rider who obviously knows her partner very, very well
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I’ve seen other videos of this pair. The horse just does that, with or without quarter sheet. Very sticky rider who obviously knows her partner very, very well :)[/QUOTE]
Seriously? I’d have to eat antacids to even get on knowing that was coming
I know!
Here’s another example - scroll to 5:18 if you don’t want to watch the whole thing, although they’re fun to watch, the kid is fearless!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2wY_hvOBqg
How old are you guys??? For some of us “ladies of a certain age” who rode with former cavalry officers, exercises to follow a horse over jumps were part of your basic training…freely admitting that I could not do it now.
The set-up was there was a course of jumps…2’6" to 3"… in a chute/track, that you had to take with no reins…and later with no reins and no stirrups. The horses knew what to do…you put them into the chute and they went…your job was to follow without interfering.
I have not seen this training in the US for probably 30 years (probably due to liability)…but considering this girl is French, she is probably a product of that sort of schooling.
At least his bucks were basically just big jumps. She handled it well.
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I think it was a “thank you for the whoa” pat. It wasn’t just the quarter sheet that got his dander up, it was the tail cord snapped back on itself tickling his left thigh. That could have been a very bad wreck if the steering had failed.[/QUOTE]
I too thought the crouper type cord was part of the show he was putting on.
She may have patted him for quitting that, not sure.
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At least his bucks were basically just big jumps. She handled it well.[/QUOTE]
A few were pretty serious “just big jumps”.
She did handle them well, very well.
[QUOTE=pluvinel;8964982]
How old are you guys??? For some of us “ladies of a certain age” who rode with former cavalry officers, exercises to follow a horse over jumps were part of your basic training…freely admitting that I could not do it now.
The set-up was there was a course of jumps…2’6" to 3"… in a chute/track, that you had to take with no reins…and later with no reins and no stirrups. The horses knew what to do…you put them into the chute and they went…your job was to follow without interfering.
I have not seen this training in the US for probably 30 years (probably due to liability)…but considering this girl is French, she is probably a product of that sort of schooling.[/QUOTE]
We did that too, without any tack, in the winter, one day a week, to exercise the horses, forming with jump standards and a rope a kind of Hitchcock pen around the indoor, along the wall and putting jumps all along.
All of us loved that, horses and riders.
For those of you who missed this education…Here is where George Morris got his training…from people who came from this tradition.
Here is a US Cavalry training video showing the chute and cross country. Sometimes in the chute you had to go over the jumps doing the “seat exercises”
This one starts with the sort of terrain you were training for…and shows why/how a rider had to be prepared to follow their horse over uneven ground.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3z2sA8OLRQ
This one finishes with a rider showing exemplary form over a jump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXbhvwPb11k
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We did that too, without any tack, in the winter, one day a week…[/QUOTE]
And you walked to school, in the snow, uphill …both ways! That’s the way it was and we liked it. :lol: sorry I couldn’t resist. I’m channeling Dana Carvey this morning
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