Just seen this on Facebook!!

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Just browsing through FB before and I came across this video.

Apparently a girl went to try out a horse that sounded 'perfect' for her. The ad listed the 16.1 ISH gelding as a quiet, easy ride - great for a novice.

She travelled with her mum and friend to view the horse..

[video=youtube;KYblH_XnPj4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYblH_XnPj4[/video]

I also then found videos of the same horse on youtube

[video=youtube;hvtHJCY7M8M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvtHJCY7M8M[/video]

[video=youtube;OQ_oXom8sMU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ_oXom8sMU[/video]


I can't believe some people will 1) Lie in their advert so much and 2) Allow a young girl to ride their horse when they know it's so dangerous.
 
I wouldn't say it looks 'dangerous' in the jumping videos but it doesn't look like a novice ride. The girl who viewed the horse did well to stay on for as long as she did even though she's a novice.
 
Well the third video certainly shows a bit of a high wired horse. Certainly not suitable for a novice. To be honest if I came across that I'd probably take it back to basics.
 
Well definatly not suitable for a novice but there's nothing in the two jumping clips that make it look dangerous ,sharp and not well trained perhaps but not dangerous .
I hope the girl trying it was not hurt it certainly would have been frightening.
 
The 2 jumping video's don't demonstrate a dangerous horse, but they do show one that wouldn't be suitable for a novice.

The poor girl trying it didn't do anything obviously wrong, and hung on well. The vendors should be shot.
 
Oh god I hope the poor girl isn't too shaken by this experience - I agree I can't see that it's anything she's done to cause it to take off like that! She did well to stick on for so long.

Sadly doesn't surprise me in the horse world. Wish people could just be straight with each other *wishful thinking*
 
ihatework said:
The 2 jumping video's don't demonstrate a dangerous horse, but they do show one that wouldn't be suitable for a novice.

The poor girl trying it didn't do anything obviously wrong, and hung on well. The vendors should be shot.
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Exactly

If the girl trying is genuinely a novice she sat that all very, very well and I hope she isn't too put off!

I am not a novice but that second jumping video is enough to make me think I wouldn't want to get on the beggar. Not a nice way to approach a fence! :eek3:
 
How old is the horse ? Agree with SF, it isn't dangerous but it isn't a novice ride. The girl didn't seem experienced enough to manage the horse. I hope she hasn't been too put off by her experience.
 
Poor girl, she must have been shaken!, My immediate thought as the video started was that the horse didn't look 'right' in it's hindquarters before it even got into trot! Anyone else think the same or am I seeing things?
 
I agree it doesn't look even through it back end.

If you watch the second junping video you can see the horse leaping and being a lunatic on the approach to the fence.
 
Poor girl appears to have fractured her coccyx so she was injured and it is one of the reasons I dont like made horses unless I know who made them. I started to raise babies several years ago and am as honest as the day is long so never have trouble with any of mine but I do agree the sellers should be shot
 
Due to the power of the internet I have found this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCpszWSYmT0

which is about the girl riding the horse in the OP and her horse. She looks like ok to me so not a novice and probably didn't do anything to set him off like that either I would wager.

Admittedly the horse may just be excited and love jumping but I wouldn't jump it if I'd seen that video and I used to ride yearlings!!
 
Yes the horse may love jumping. But it clearly isn't schooled the way it gallops at the jump, has no shape over the jump then gallops off on landing too
 
I wouldn't want to sit on that after seeing that! Poor girl, such a fright and shock. She did nothing wrong and stayed on so well for a while. Hope the vendors changed their game plan with the horse after this.
 
Shame she lost her stirrup as I wonder what the outcome could have been otherwise, but the horse didn't look like he was about to give up his antics until she'd dismounted.
 
JennyConnor said:
Yes the horse may love jumping. But it clearly isn't schooled the way it gallops at the jump, has no shape over the jump then gallops off on landing too
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Doesn't make it dangerous. Sheesh I had a showjumper for 16 years who was exactly like this. No amounts of schooling ever changed how she was in a jumping ring I'm afraid. She wasn't dangerous, but no way in heck would I have ever let a novice ride her.

I've been trying to re-watch the video with the girl but for some reason the video keeps staggering and going slow so I can't really see exactly what goes on immediately prior to the horse running off with her. From what I can see though, she seems to have her left leg very far forward on the horse's shoulder and the other leg seems to be flopping about behind somewhere. I'm going to try and watch it on my phone and see if I can get a clearer picture.
 
Oh my word, as soon as that horse set off you just knew the only way the poor girl was getting back off it was at speed, no way is that a horse for any other rider than an experienced one. I wonder whether she saw it being ridden beforehand, watching it i can imagine the sheer terror she would have been feeling.

It does not appear that she did anything to set the horse off and sat the bolt really well to be honest. i hope she is recovering well and not to put off getting back in the saddle.
 
If you watch the vid on youtube you can see she had already hacked it by this point and had a trot on it outside the school :)

''This horse is for sale, and Sophie went to view it today with me and mum! We traveled 200 miles to get there as he sounded the perfect horse! We asked all the right questions and was told that hes a lovely, safe, forward going horse that loves jumping. Took it for a hack and it was okay, trotted it ect! When Sophie took it into the school this happened!! Its obviously not pain related as Sophie only asked the horse to trot and she had trotted it on the road with no problems! When Sophie bailed all the woman said was a simple 'sorry' We then walked around the yard and 2 men had obviously heard and asked of we were okay! Then the yard owner came and spoke to us and said that they have kicked the horse off the yard for being dangerous, and they were not allowed to let people view the horse on their yard! On the way home the owners daughter text to see how the horse was! We replied saying 'thanks for wasting our time' She then got gobby so i called her and all she could come up with was that Sophie couldn't ride! If she cant ride, how did she stay on for so long with no stirrups! Sophie is in alot of pain and lost out on lots of money in getting up to see the horse, we will be taking this further and we will make sure everyone knows what this horse is like as they would quiet happily put a 10 year old novice on that horse!!!''
 
Jesstickle said:
Due to the power of the internet I have found this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCpszWSYmT0

which is about the girl riding the horse in the OP and her horse. She looks like ok to me so not a novice and probably didn't do anything to set him off like that either I would wager.

Admittedly the horse may just be excited and love jumping but I wouldn't jump it if I'd seen that video and I used to ride yearlings!!
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I think this video is of the friend....the one videoing the fall....not the rider who came off. In the second jumping video the leaps on the approach to the jump look very similar to the leaps the horse does when it first takes off with the rider in the first video. Kudos to the rider for staying on so long with no stirrups and managing to maintain a very good lower leg position.
 
Spiritedly said:
I think this video is of the friend....the one videoing the fall....not the rider who came off. In the second jumping video the leaps on the approach to the jump look very similar to the leaps the horse does when it first takes off with the rider in the first video. Kudos to the rider for staying on so long with no stirrups and managing to maintain a very good lower leg position.
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Nope. Honestly, Sophie is the girl on the horse in the original vidoe and the vid I posted is Sophie and her old horse. I have stalked quite carefully!

Some of the vid I posted is people other than Sophie but the two girls are clearly friends and Sophie was trying the other girl and her horsey mum went to view with her :)
 
Jesstickle said:
Nope. Honestly, Sophie is the girl on the horse in the original vidoe and the vid I posted is Sophie and her old horse. I have stalked quite carefully!

Some of the vid I posted is people other than Sophie but the two girls are clearly friends and Sophie was trying the other girl and her horsey mum went to view with her :)
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Oops my bad :( That's what I get for not watching all the video. :o
 
Poor girl :O

I must admit...Ned used to do something similar towards jumps when I first used to ride him! He didn't leap, but he did go at 100mph!! I'm not exactly a novice, but I'm not that great either, but I KNEW what to expect, so I could handle it.

Had she been pre-warned, she might have been able to do something about it before it happened or just not got on at all (I think that would be my choice!). If no one had told me about Ned's quirks, or had I not seen someone else experience them, I bet I would have been floored too.

I hope she recovers soon!
 
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