Great idea but launched on April 1st!!!!!!!!!

jinglejoys said:
The weighings a great idea but I think a weigh Tape would be cheaper :D
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Would be interesting research though to see how accurate tapes are--with every breed and type at County Shows

My horse was weighed at a competition once when XC fit and I thought he was quite light but the researchers thought he was spot on for the event and too many others were overweight--unfortunately I never thought to put a tape on him at the time.
 
I find it interesting how it's okay to use the serious health issue of overweight horses as an item of humour. I wonder what the response would have been if the article had made fun of malnourished horses instead!!
 
MCPHERSONHATER said:
I find it interesting how it's okay to use the serious health issue of overweight horses as an item of humour. I wonder what the response would have been if the article had made fun of malnourished horses instead!!
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Sadly, this was an April Fool. I actually thought ,'about time, too.'

I think the majority of show horses are deliberately made at least seriously overweight, and some are morbidly obese. It's criminal.
 
MCPHERSONHATER said:
I find it interesting how it's okay to use the serious health issue of overweight horses as an item of humour. I wonder what the response would have been if the article had made fun of malnourished horses instead!!
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My thoughts too! :mad: I don't understand why it's such a stupid idea.....but then I suppose if the HHO staff all have skinny TBs and haven't witnessed this cruelty in the name of showing then they wouldn't understand!
 
I thought it was a good idea too..... mainly because most people don't have access to a weighbridge so never accurately know how much their horses actually weigh. And the implications it with have with the fat show horses.
 
I find it slightly annoying that people refer to most show horses as morbidly overweight tbh.

Yes, they look bulked up and yes some are morbidly obese, I won't deny that.

BUT alot also however lead fit active lives outside of the show ring and can't carry excess podge around especially doing workers, etc. Do not mistake pure bulked muscle for 'fat'.
Our show cob can look huge when produced up, but I'll be damned if it's fat. He does hunting over winter, plus workers, plus hacking [have you seen the hills round here?!] and is produced with the intention of it being all muscle...NOT fat. Similar to all of ours tbh.

So please....don't catagorise most show horses into the morbidly overweight catagory. A lot do produce for muscle bulk rather than fat bulk.
Fat bulk looks horrid and is NOT a method of correct production.
 
Binky01 said:
I find it slightly annoying that people refer to most show horses as morbidly overweight tbh.

Yes, they look bulked up and yes some are morbidly obese, I won't deny that.

BUT alot also however lead fit active lives outside of the show ring and can't carry excess podge around especially doing workers, etc. Do not mistake pure bulked muscle for 'fat'.
Our show cob can look huge when produced up, but I'll be damned if it's fat. He does hunting over winter, plus workers, plus hacking [have you seen the hills round here?!] and is produced with the intention of it being all muscle...NOT fat. Similar to all of ours tbh.

So please....don't catagorise most show horses into the morbidly overweight catagory. A lot do produce for muscle bulk rather than fat bulk.
Fat bulk looks horrid and is NOT a method of correct production.
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TBH the ones I see most are the little welshies and natives....it seems the norm at some shows to have your section a bounce and wobble around the ring :(
 
T_K said:
TBH the ones I see most are the little welshies and natives....it seems the norm at some shows to have your section a bounce and wobble around the ring :(
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Ah fair dues....I don't follow M&M's tbh! Coblets and Hunters all the way :)
 
Er, not all M+M's are obese either. Please refrain from tarring all show horses, or all M+M's, with the same brush. For people like myself involved in showing it is very annoying, and I wish people would get their facts right. Have a look on www.equinational.co.uk for lots of recent photos of show horses. You will find most are a good weight, well muscled and produced - some are too fat, these usually get put down the line - but not ALL are fat.

This is like me saying "I went to an unaffiliated showjumping competition and no one could ride" or "I went to a dressage competition and everything was overbent". You'd get annoyed too :rolleyes:
 
teagreen said:
Er, not all M+M's are obese either. Please refrain from tarring all show horses, or all M+M's, with the same brush. For people like myself involved in showing it is very annoying, and I wish people would get their facts right. Have a look on www.equinational.co.uk for lots of recent photos of show horses. You will find most are a good weight, well muscled and produced - some are too fat, these usually get put down the line - but not ALL are fat.

This is like me saying "I went to an unaffiliated showjumping competition and no one could ride" or "I went to a dressage competition and everything was overbent". You'd get annoyed too :rolleyes:
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Ditto this. Apologies...I didn't mean it as saying M&M's were....I just meant I follow the hunters and cobs, so am not qualified to comment on M&M's as have no real experience with them that's all! :)
 
teagreen said:
Er, not all M+M's are obese either. Please refrain from tarring all show horses, or all M+M's, with the same brush. For people like myself involved in showing it is very annoying, and I wish people would get their facts right. Have a look on www.equinational.co.uk for lots of recent photos of show horses. You will find most are a good weight, well muscled and produced - some are too fat, these usually get put down the line - but not ALL are fat.

This is like me saying "I went to an unaffiliated showjumping competition and no one could ride" or "I went to a dressage competition and everything was overbent". You'd get annoyed too :rolleyes:
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ARGH!!! I don't think anyone ever said ALL. I myself show M+Ms and don't have an overweight pony! I'm just saying that if you're going to see overweight ponies in the show ring it is more likely to be a M+M....just an observation....it is a very small proportion of ponies in the ring mind.
 
Well I can say that the M&M's at the Great Yorkshire last year were nearly all overweight. It was very sad to see and the judges did seem to put the fatter ones up the line. A very sad thing to see at county level.
 
Only on the HHO Forum could a thread about an April 1st joke degenerate in to an argument about show horse condition.

I was about to say that the only subject you could make a joke about which won't have someone write "Its not funny to make a joke about the very serious subject of..." was the weather, however the climate change lot (for, or against, or whatever) would not find that funny either.
 
Broken_Arrow said:
Only on the HHO Forum could a thread about an April 1st joke degenerate in to an argument about show horse condition.
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They started it! It's in very poor taste since there are many ponies and horses suffering (or destined to suffer) from the consequences of over feeding/producing for vanity's sake.

A very promising young show horse died from laminitis as a direct result of over producing and overfeeding AGE 5. I get very angry when I think of her.
 
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