Your comments??

Question

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxQecSg92tM

I will let the video speak for itself...

Boxer, the george of the jungle music was just priceless!!!!!

Answer 1

She should take up golf -

or trampolining.

Talented horse.

Answer 2

I hate to say this but the people videoing were right about her position. She needed to go into the two point and support herself with her legs and open her knees when she jumped. She tended to use the horse's mouth for support on impact. The proper hand position while going over the fence is to have no contact on the mouth but still having the reins make a straight line from mouth to elbow to have good comunication upon landing. That way the horse wouldn't go out of control. Many people believe (wrongly) that the hands should be in front of the withers and on top of the crest of the neck.

The horse, also was not moving correctly. It's head was too high and it was resisting the pressure of the bit. Yes i understand that the girl was not a great rider and was pulling, so I can see the horse altering it's movement to compromise for her inability to hold her own position. But, the horse should still be able to keep it's head lower and collect itself when it gets to the jump so that it can use its hind end for the push off better. If the girl could collect him, he probably wouldn't have had any faults.

Answer 3

Well for one thing the horse was a very talented pony and look like he new what he was doing.
As for the rider, well its kind of hard to say. Yes she did forget her two point seat and was thrown forward a bit but between fences looked fairly comfortable.
You never no weather this was a new combination and the rider was not familiar with the horses striding or if it was a new height level and she was just a little intimidated.
It even looks like she might of had a horse stop at a fence and she may of come over its head and now she is reluctant to come up out of the saddle.
Either way a bit more training would help with her seat.

Answer 4

I am no professional by any means, i had a horse when i was 16 now 39 and still holding, watch a lot of shows please tell me that the rider was a last min. fill in, got suddenly sick when she smelled the horse's something , she or he was very lucky 2 hav a well tempered, manered,patient horse, if i was the horse i'm pretty sure i would b looking at her fly thru the air or getting up off the ground. Has anyone told her how LUCKY she is? In all fairness though it just wasn't her day.

Answer 5

WellI will say this... I hope this poor girl never finds this on youtube. I feel bad for the poor horse!
But I feel really bad for the girl too.
I can't believe the crowd was actally laughing! That was entirely inappropriate. However, this is something you see all the time at lot of big time shows, ESPECIALLY at Congress. Hot shott people come along and fork out the big bucks to trainers to put their kid on a horse. Theres seven year old kids on seventeen hand high appendixes jumping exactly like this and the horse pretty much runs out to save the kids life. It's too bad that showing has gotten to this.

Answer 6

I'd have to say that the two old plow mules the neighbor has out back puts up a heck of a better show when it's time for him to try and hitch them up to the wagon.But at least the rider kept her cool and continued the ride till the end.To continue on in the knowledge that your beat is character.

Answer 7

I can't believe what I saw!! It looked like well I don't know what to say. I'm shocked that the rider didn't fall off. I'm surpirsed that the horse didn't flip over. I'm an all a round rider and i only jump cross rails but still i've learned NEVER jump like that. I hope the rider was DQ'ed

Answer 8

Wow ....what a packer!
That is a nice horse. He did his job well and got all his leads right and only one rail down that I could see.
Poor thing was so annoyed!
He was wringing his tail every step of the way and can you blame him?
He got hung in the mouth over every fence.
He deserves better.
Please someone, give that girl some velcro and riding lessons for Christmas!

Answer 9

My comments would be all asterisks by the time the Yahoo censors were finished with me.

OMG. Every time she landed, she re-balanced herself on that poor horse's mouth. The horse was a SAINT.

What level competition was this?

Horsegirl, you get a cookie for being nicer than most people, myself included. I wish she WOULD see it and maybe learn something from the humiliation.

Answer 10

Wow Mule,
Im feeling the need to stand on a soap box...and I will, if only briefly,to point out that if you arent capable of schooling at home, why are you in a show ring?
It amazes me, the things people put their animals through.
That rider needs to go back to basics - George Morris would go into cardiac arrest watching that..
I need to go poke sharp objects in my eyes now..

Answer 11

That poor horse! It's so forgiving, if I rode my hrose like that he would be like "excuse me, you're not alllowed to ride like that, I'm going to refuse now, and I'm going to manage to throw you off and then I'll look at you like you're a total retard." In what world did she manage to get herself qualified? In what world is she allowed to jump? How did she get herself such a great horse? If someone rode a horse I was selling like that, I would say no instantly. She somehow manages to not only fall on her horse's back, but hit him in the mouth and fall all over his neck! If she'd been TRYING to jump badly, I don't think she could have done any worse.