Can you really tell if some is to heavy for their horse from pictures?

littlelegs said:
I think Yabu, all of you. If the opportunity arose it wouldn't be my horses I would be wanting ridden by a hot male rider, far better uses for their skill!
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Just to warm them up of course, men not the horse ;) don't want them pulling anything.... :rolleyes:
 
Stencilface said:
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!

There wasn't one man on that video you'd want to see ride your horse, or ride yourself for that matter?! :p :D
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One or two, as I recall, before it went all androgenous and creepy :o Don't do guys with long black hair and long finger nails / more make up than me!

OK ok, some of the guys in that video are pretty, but the tarting around in front of camera is so not cool!

Buds_mum said:
This sounds like quite the plan, we should have an interviewing stage first like qualifiers :p
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They'd have to be very well vetted before we could possibly allow them to participate :D
 
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JFTD said:
I reckon WFP is a lot more balanced and toned than your average rotund 5'2 woman. I'd certainly let him ride Fergs, though I wouldn't let a short, fat person of the same weight ride him :D

(Not that Fergs is a spindly TB, but he's little :p and I'd laugh at WFP's long legs hanging down!)
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But what if the short rotund woman was a capable rider and also weighed two stone less than the tall skinny man? At 5ft2 11stone 11lbs is classified as obese. The same weight is healthy once you are 5ft9" and over, a man of 6ft2 can be 13st8 and within healthy limits.

Much of peoples reaction is based upon how people look, my OH is 6ft2" and rides our lightweight WB. No one has ever commented that he looks too heavy, people are always stunned when they hear what he weighs. We livery at a riding school and when it was pointed out that he exceeds their maximum weight limit (12stone) people were surprised, because he doesn't look fat, most people conceed that they would have thought many of their horses would happily carry him, in fact he's ridden one of them. A lady with flabby thighs and a big bum would get a very different reaction. Arguably if they are both half way decent riders it shouldn't make much difference, if anything the centre of balance of a too tall rider can be more of an issue than a rider that is the right height but is flabby.
 
I think people were asking for a photo as a polite way of deciphering if the OP was for real or not. I had no such restraint sadly..lol!

I don't think you can tell by a photo, not can you tell from weights on paper/screen. The trusty steed in question will tell you if you're too heavy when you get on it and ask it to do something!

People are often too precious about weight carrying ability these days, whilst it may be your pride and joy pet, it still is a bleddy hoss at the end of the day, and it's task is to carry or pull (or be served as food if we're being frank).
 
Kat said:
But what if the short rotund woman was a capable rider and also weighed two stone less than the tall skinny man? At 5ft2 11stone 11lbs is classified as obese. The same weight is healthy once you are 5ft9" and over, a man of 6ft2 can be 13st8 and within healthy limits.
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Ahh but now we're entering those many shades of grey - it's very hard to generalise...

Is this the subject of that book everyone's going on about? :D
 
JFTD said:
One or two, as I recall, before it went all androgenous and creepy :o Don't do guys with long black hair and long finger nails / more make up than me!

OK ok, some of the guys in that video are pretty, but the tarting around in front of camera is so not cool!



They'd have to be very well vetted before we could possibly allow them to participate :D
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5* of course, flexion testd being of paramount importance :p

JFTD said:
Ahh but now we're entering those many shades of grey - it's very hard to generalise...

Is this the subject of that book everyone's going on about? :D
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Well there is certainly some riding and whipping in that book......
 
I've had the opposite experience kat. Being tall & thin & looking lighter than the 9stone I am, I've had comments that I am too big to ride some ponies, but at the same time the same person thinks someone who weighs 3stone more is fine. And I find the same happens with kids on ponies, the skinny kid with legs slightly below the saddle is viewed as too big, the little chunk that weighs twice as much is seen to be fine. Last year my daughter, then 6, was the jockey for backing a friends miniature. She's just under 4stone now a year later fully dressed, being tall & thin she looks even lighter. What I soon realised was the resident yard know all informed me she was too tall. Funnily enough she didn't think her own child who probably weighed double mine but a good 6" shorter was too big for a miniature.
 
:eek: :eek: Am I too big for my pony then?
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Kat said:
Who on here would question whether WFP is too heavy to ride a spindly tb? What would you say if you were asked whether a size 18 woman could ride the same horse?
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I doubt any would, but then he is actually very lightweight, if tall. He is generally listed as weighing 12 stone or just under, and I've never heard anyone say that 12 stone would be too heavy on a tb. Think what NH horses carry...
 
Joins the que to let WFP ride the pony! Oh and I think we all need tickets to the houghton eventers challege thing, market research obviously :cool:. Was chatting to the physio about WFP when she was doing friends ponies and we all agree that he has extrodinary conformation, very long back and neck and must have had to develop extremly good balance very early on to ride so well.

Theres a real diffrence between hopping on to sort a pony that being a little whatsit out and riding it long term. Short term I'm suprised what people would let me ride, long term I'd only be happy on well built 11.2s and up wards. FWIW OP I dont think your to big for any of the horses pictured long term as long as you are riding fit.

Theres a woman near me that is that big that she cant rise to trot and doesnt get why they dont do well under some judges. Admitedly her horse is very very chunky but the pressure under her saddle must be excessive.
 
dafthoss said:
Theres a woman near me that is that big that she cant rise to trot and doesnt get why they dont do well under some judges. Admitedly her horse is very very chunky but the pressure under her saddle must be excessive.
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Oi, I can rise to the trot, I just choose not to!! :rolleyes:
 
rhino said:
I doubt any would, but then he is actually very lightweight, if tall. He is generally listed as weighing 12 stone or just under, and I've never heard anyone say that 12 stone would be too heavy on a tb. Think what NH horses carry...
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I'd be very surprised if he is 12 stone or under at his height and carrying a decent amount of muscle, but then weight is very difficult to judge by sight alone. I know someone who is 6ft and fairly obsessively keeps their weight under 12stone (for sporting purposes) and they look pretty wasted tbh so I would have thought it would look terrible on WFP who is taller...... But WFP wasn't the point really it is the difference in attitudes between someone of a specific weight depending upon whether they are thin or fat irrespective of their weight. 12stone would be pretty big on a lady of 5ft, but can look very skinny on someone tall.
 
Omg yes it was u! Evil lady haha! Tho u r the reason I now live on lettuce and grilled chicken but I'm losing weight and never felt better!
 
It is a nightmare when people post pictures regarding their weght and asking for an opinion.

I once (stupidly) took a poster at face value and gave an honest opinion (which was: yes, you are overweight, but you look to have a lovely partnership with your horse).

Well, I was ripped to shreds! Not, in fairness, by the poster, who actually accepted very graciously that she had asked for an honest opinion, but scores of other posters who came to her defence.

I never, ever comment on anyones weight related pictures now, unless I can honestly say 'you look fine'.
 
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