Just looks wrong?!

Looks almost as bad as the Tennessee Walking horse gate where they use a horrible process called soring :'(

But then to be fair these breeds are bred for their high gait - so it could well be natural - which I suppose to someone in that disipline looks good, but because we are so used to the "classical" gaits
 
Video 1 - the narrator/trainer says that nothing artificial was used to create that trot.....UH...THE FEET????????????????

Video 2 - would love to know what the ridden career span of these horses is as I really can't imagine they can stay sound working like and being ridden like that for very long. Some of the riders were almost on the horses loins!

Video 3 - not my cup of tea at all but a magnificent horse in his own right.
 
BethanT said:
Looks almost as bad as the Tennessee Walking horse gate where they use a horrible process called soring :'(

But then to be fair these breeds are bred for their high gait - so it could well be natural - which I suppose to someone in that disipline looks good, but because we are so used to the "classical" gaits
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Hackneys are known for it, but it does look rather exaggerated...the hooves are longer than the pasterns!!!
 
blimey but that hackney in the first link looks just fabulous...... look at that hock flexion!!!! sound or what.....
 
Some of the things they do to the horses to make them move so extremely is just appalling. Look up 'Big Lick' and soring. Poor horses. That driven horse looks like it's got pads and plates on it's feet.

I'm afraid I don't like the Arab stallion at all. The neck looks deformed and it's far too long in the back. And why does it have bald eyebrows? ! Many arabs are stunningly beautiful but I don't like any extreme deformities like those seen in halter breds ( inc quarter horses). The Americans have a lot to answer for :(
 
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I find this so interesting - simply because there is so much more to the horse world than my narrow part of it. People use and enjoy horses in amazing ways. A lot of the video above looked strange to me, but I can't say that the horses looked generally uncomfortable - certainly no more than many horses you see out each weekend at local dressage or SJ, being hauled in the mouth or plodding along 'on the bit'. And I have a soft spot for a pretty Arab, even though I wouldn't want one.
 
Video 2 looks like trying to ride my horses trot when he's feeling fresh haha! :P

But in all seriousness it looks so unatural and cant be good for the horses to be ridden like that!
 
The arab is a nice horse with some real stars in his pedigree. If he grew his fur back (around his eyes, in his ears, his whiskers plus the extended bridle path) he'd look super. I much prefer the natural look and a full mane.
 
s4sugar said:
The first video looks awful & wrong especially when compared to this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK1vXcpMj3k which is how I expect a Hackney to move.
The American trend to try & make Hackney ponies into miniature saddlebreds is worrying.
How much vaseline is that Arab wearing?
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I still think everything about they way the Hackney goes is wrong its just not natural in my eyes and looks forced! I really don't like it!
 
Not impressed by any of them I'm afraid, some rather sad examples of our strange human desire to try and out-do our neighbours by breeding more and more extreme traits.
 
hollybear said:
Not impressed by any of them I'm afraid, some rather sad examples of our strange human desire to try and out-do our neighbours by breeding more and more extreme traits.
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Apart from the Arab, breeding has nothing to do with the first two videos.

There is widespread campaign in America to prosecute the sports for nicking, soring, weighting and beating. What they do these horses is so damned cruel.

You don't have to dig far in the net to uncover the truth.
 
Only in America, eh?

It all just makes me sick. Even the way they show their arabs is so cruel. That Arab stallion just looks deformed to me, especially his neck!
 
Wagtail said:
Only in America, eh?

It all just makes me sick. Even the way they show their arabs is so cruel. That Arab stallion just looks deformed to me, especially his neck!
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Wagtail, horrible things happen in England too!

Perhaps we should say "some practices in the showing world... " :/
 
Frankly all three look quite bizarre. I feel sorry for the horses.

I was particularly shocked by the second video. They are sitting so far back that the horses' backs are bowed in the middle and bent completely the wrong way.
 
Darremi said:
Frankly all three look quite bizarre. I feel sorry for the horses.

I was particularly shocked by the second video. They are sitting so far back that the horses' backs are bowed in the middle and bent completely the wrong way.
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These particularly group of people think its beautiful and there is a lot money for the best at riding like crap.
 
tallyho! said:
These particularly group of people think its beautiful and there is a lot money for the best at riding like crap.
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I can believe that. How very sad though. Just reminds me of the ridiculous dogs being yanked around by their owners at Crufts.

As an aside: somebody needs to ban people from putting baby oil on their show horses. It looks truly terrible!
 
Only in America, as someone has said. To me they all look freaky and abnormal, the products of extreme breeding and even more extreme "training" !!! Not to mention whats going on with feet etc, what's with the tails on those gaited horses? Do they dock them to get them to look like that?
 
just reminds me of the sad fact that we try to control nature and think we know better than 'she' does.

all three are cruel and freakish, the arab looks deformed what is going on with his neck and the puffiness/swellings above his eyes.
 
Greylegs said:
Only in America, as someone has said. To me they all look freaky and abnormal, the products of extreme breeding and even more extreme "training" !!! Not to mention whats going on with feet etc, what's with the tails on those gaited horses? Do they dock them to get them to look like that?
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Worse. They half cut them called nicking, basically breaking them.
 
The way they train these saddlebreds is just TOTAL CRUELTY. I cannot understand how it is allowed in a a so-called 'civilised' country, let alone applauded, The arab and hackney are far too exaggerated, although their traits may be natural they have been bred to accentuate the breed characteristics to a ridiculous point.
 
I don't agree with any of this - the gait, the riding style, the shoeing, the tails, the sweat, and the things that go on behind the scenes. I don't understand how anyone could enjoy this, or how a child could grow up wanting to make a horse do those things rather than appreciate them for what they are.
 
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