ethnicity and riders

Can you tell where the lameness is coming from?

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I am just wondering whether it will work very well as this is a British forum and you have put categories which may not be very relevant here and you might get a lot in the last two categories which doesn't actually mean much
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yes i wasnt sure how to! but i spose if they do tick the last two it still counts. good point about being a british forum..not really sure how to make it any better though! it will still be interesting to see results
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The Parkers, a well known family in the Morgan horse community are black/African American. As far as I understand it, the grandfather was the first black man (in the USA?) to be allowed in to a show ring as an exibitor, and not a groom. He is also well known for training/exhibiting Saddlebreds.

His sons have all gone on to show and train horses.
 
If you wanted to get the classifications that are generally used in the UK go to a local authority website and look on the vacancies sections. All local authorities are so into equal opps that they ask for all this sort of info. You may find there are about 20 classifications!!! (not joking)
 
People all over the world ride horses, whatever their race. Where do you think Arab horses come from?

Not so many in the UK yet, although numbers are rising. If you watch the racing on TV there are stable lads of different races. There was a local Asian girl in our Pony Club who got to a high level at dressage and a couple of girls who come to local riding club things. The numbers will be low as the % of ethnic people in the UK population as a whole is low and the immigrant populations tend to live in cities where there are less opportunities to ride and less exposure to riding/horses anyway. If you looked at an inner city riding school in London or Birmingham I expect there would be the same proportion of ethnic children as there are in the immediate local population.

And my nieces, who both can ride, are Chinese/Hawiian/Anglo, but live in the USA
 
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I am just wondering whether it will work very well as this is a British forum and you have put categories which may not be very relevant here and you might get a lot in the last two categories which doesn't actually mean much
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There are a lot of people on here from ,America, Canada, Australia, and europe, Not just british!!
 
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I have been riding for over 20 yrs and have only ever seen white people riding?

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Probably depends on where you live. I'm in the American South, where quite a few black people ride. For some reason, I almost always see them riding western on gaited horses.

My new RI and one of the barn ladies, OTOH, are from the Northeast US. The first time we saw a group of black people out trail-riding, they said the same as you!
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I have only ever know one person who is not white in all the years I've been riding

apart from Alex Hu Tian of course

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Depends where you are based I think. I knew of at least 4 afro/caribbean riders, one a western style rider, when I lived in London. there were quite few Anglo-Indian girls competing at shows when I was a teenager in Kent in the 1970s.

I am surprised more are n't taking part in this poll.
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Just to point out - white does not just include Britain and Ireland. I count myself as white, because both me (half iranian) and my auntie (full iranian) have to wear the palest foundation we can find in boots, which is often not pale enough, as we are so white.

Does white include us? What about russians, japanese, eastern block europeans?

I hate it when people use "white" - why not use "western" or "british" - it sounds very arrogant to me.

Anyway, I am half British, half iranian.
 
I am "Asian", you do realise that includes a very large group indeed, like most of the world's population
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I live in the South East... At my old yard, the YM was from India, some girls working there from Japan, there was a lady from Hong Kong who competed in dressage with an ex-racehorse, at shows I saw mixed race girls competing, I have another friend from Hong Kong who rides, I know a lady from Burma who owns Friesans, my boss (a Patel) used to own a horse and compete in dressage... Being the lucky owner of a rare purebred Akhal Teke, I have met other owners from all over the world, and I have hence learnt a lot about Turkmenistan and its culture.

I think it was on My Super Sweet Sixteen there was an Asian girl competing at HOYS (and fell off!). Oliver Skeete, Alex Hu Tian, Sam Martin (http://samdressage.com/)
 
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