Pretty sure I read somewhere that the actors who play Amy and Georgie are only allowed to jump 2-foot tall fences, so they have weird camera angles to try to not show that it’s someone else riding when they film the horse over big fences. Or maybe to try to make the fences look bigger than they are.
What is the name of the show with characters Amy and Georgie? Thx
Heartland.
That makes sense! They had me fooled if that’s true.
Oh, ok, I thought that was referring to the British show with CA sisters, and I was trying to figure out the title of that one. Thank you
I watched Heartland last night and it did feature one of the girls “going for her Olympic dreams” competing in some horse show. Clearly the jumps were pretty low and the ones that had actual height were all shot going away so you didn’t see the rider’s face. However, the girl was jumping around and for some reason was paying attention to the people on the rail and not watching where she was going. She thinks she sees someone she knows by the back of his head and misses the jump. Horse stops and she just stands there like an idiot. Her “trainer” comes out to find out what’s going on and she still stands there. Instead of the announcer saying she was eliminated or find out what is wrong, just announces the winner. No jump off, no second place, etc. etc.
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The episode of Heartland I watched last night included a wild horse clearly wearing a pair of shoes 
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That reminds me of a scene from one of those man vs nature shows. The star is going to show you how to catch a wild horse. Said wild horse is fleshy, gloriously groomed, and as it gallops away clearly wearing shoes.
Edit: found it
Shod on all 4
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I love the neatly pulled mane oh and of course the obligatory whinny as he runs off.
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Here’s a good one. Was watching an old episode of ER. Rodeo cowboy was driving through downtown Chicago when his prize roping horse colics. Nearest large animal vet is 2 hours away. So cowboy drives horse to County Hospital ER. Dr. Green’s young daughter convinces him to help horse by giving him an enema. Horse is standing calmly in the trailer eating treats out of daughter’s hand prior to treatment. No thrashing, no kicking at belly, no trying to go down and roll, no sweating, nothing.
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I’ll never forget a historical novel I read. The man, of course, part native american, is riding bareback. He scoops up his woman and they ride to the watering hole. They proceed to have intimate relations AS THEY ARE RIDING. She is facing backwards in front, you can sadly and horribly picture that. GALLOPING along. Described in too many details. ARGHH! Eye bleach needed! Sorry to share the tale, but it was so ridiculous I’ve never been able to forget.
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Thank you for that visual? I think? Too funny all the same…only someone who never ridden ever would think of that ermm…kind of “activity.”
Just reminded me of the Playboy magazine I found that had a naked model riding bareback across the desert at a gallop. All I could think was…ew. ew. and yeah ew. And ouch.
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Free Rein. Main girl is Zoe. Mother of preteen so I should know…
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Even apart from the other details, the plot itself is badly flawed.
A horse that won the Kentucky Derby SEVERAL YEARS AGO, but has not raced recently, is highly unlikely to do well in a stakes race.
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Seriously? Outside of Chicago there are plenty of vets. Who in their right mind would go to a city, let alone a human hospital, with a sick horse? 
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Oh good grief. I realize these types of shows are simulations, but can you imagine if some nitwit tried this? So they’re supposed to lure an actual mustang with a handful of the same grass it’s already eating? And then gentle it with a majickal touch on its shoulder? And then pass a loop of braided leaves around its neck and ride it bareback to the trail head in the style of the famed Foxfield Drill Team?
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I can just see the writer’s sitting around trying to come up with an idea for this episode. Lightbulb goes off: “What if we have a cowboy bring his horse into the hospital?”
“Why?”
“Horse is dying from colic”
“What’s colic?”
“I don’t know but my daughter’s friend’s horse died from it so must be pretty bad”
“Should it show symptoms?”
“I don’t know what they are but I doubt anyone else watching does either.”
“Sounds good, let’s roll with it”
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OMG, that video is hysterical! I love how he is starving but yeah, full film crew nearby.
And whoever heard of a mustang grazing alone? That’s a death sentence.
Reminds me of a Monty Roberts join up demo at Rancho Murrieta back in the 1990’s. The two “wild” mustang colts. Both beautifully groomed, one shod. Oh, and halter broke (they were led into the arena).
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Similar to a Monty Roberts demo that my friend supplied horses for many years ago. He had hauled in one of his dead broke geldings to keep a young filly company in the trailer… and Monty opted to use that gelding as his demo horse for trailer loading. My friend protested that the horse could load himself and had done so for years… and Monty laughed and said that the crowd would not know that.
During the demo, said gelding was introduced as a fearful, traumatized horse who would not load - but thanks to Monty’s awesomeness, he loaded himself within 5 minutes. The crowd applauded. The gelding (and those of us who knew him) was annoyed with being backed away from the trailer he just wanted to walk into… and bored.
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I’m dying on this one. I think there’s actually a movie scene like this in a move we watched for Spanish class. Like water for chocolate maybe?
