Only in america!!

Sorry but your dumb title made me not even want to open the link so I cannot even comment on the vid.



I am sure the video was awful but horrible [****] with horses and riders ( children too) happens ALL over the world girly. Not just In America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
 
I cannot believe anybody would be stupid enough to tie a kid's feet to the stirrups- regardless of how quiet the horse is!!!
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that is horrible. poor child. they tie their feet to the stirrups?! that is just madness... no hats, and toddlers on horses bigger than mine! it was awful the way the child was just limp. america.
 
It may be a 'dumb' title but its not common practice in the uk to put a tiny child onto a horse, send it galloping into an arena with its feet tied to the stirrups to hurtle round barrels. sorry but its a fact.
 
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I am sure the video was awful but horrible [****] with horses and riders ( children too) happens ALL over the world girly. Not just In America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO


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It is barrell racing, so mostly only in America - and I must say I have never heard of it being OK to tie feet to stirrups in any discipline anywhere but in the US - sorry Jade
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It may be a 'dumb' title but its not common practice in the uk to put a tiny child onto a horse, send it galloping into an arena with its feet tied to the stirrups to hurtle round barrels. sorry but its a fact.

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NOT a common practice here either you lunatic
 
Ouch - poor little girl. Most parents wouldn't intentionally hurt their child but I guess other countries have different ideas on safety. I remember as a young child being in a car without a seatbelt (never mind a safety seat) and with the adults smoking as my mother knew no better. I can't think any parent these days would let their child be in such an environment and I can't imagine how my mum could have known no better - but she really didn't. I would think this little girls parents live in an area where no-one wears hard hats, has safety stirrups and where there is no ponies. Doesn't excuse it though!
 
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I am sure the video was awful but horrible [****] with horses and riders ( children too) happens ALL over the world girly. Not just In America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO


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It is barrell racing, so mostly only in America - and I must say I have never heard of it being OK to tie feet to stirrups in any discipline anywhere but in the US - sorry Jade
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mostly in America is not ONLY in America Weezy
It just rubs me the wrong way and is an ignorant generalisation
 
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so no one sends small children barrel racing? No one puts tiny kids on big horses?? check your picks hypocrite. You wanna start the name calling go for it your on your own and will soon get bored.

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I am 34 years old and have NEVER Seen a childs feet tied to ANY stirrups! Yes that parent is not fit but stop generalising!



btw...that gentle well mannered Quarter Horse I was on ( at age 5
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OMG - I didn't realise her feet were TIED to her stirrups Imagine if the horse bolted on a hack or something and wasn't in a school where they could get to her
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I know and I do absolutely sympathise re: ignorant generalisation - it is like a Spaniard saying that all Britons are lager swilling idiots with no manners and like to fight
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HOWEVER, the pushing of young kids in the western discipline does seem rife in the US - am not saying they don't love it (Benjy loves nothing more than sitting on P as he is sooo high off the ground) and I absolutely know that these horses have a level of training that is second to none, but I think the image of a young, small child on a big horse galloping is very alien to UK peeps and that is why they take umbrage to it (I am used to seeing kids on horses, ponies have only just been invented in Spain LOL!!!)

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I agree weezy . I think what people fail to realise though is that these Quarter horses are most often far safer than any pony and far more predictable and easy to handle.
 
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I will stop generalising if you stop the name calling. Do you have definative proof that I am in fact a lunatic??

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No way! I know that you are a lunatic no more than you know that only in America would a moron parent tie a child to a saddle


AND that it is a common practice here
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that may be the case, but it doesnt make it right. its still a living breathing mind of its own animal. accidents happen its what makes them accidents, but that one could have been avoided.
 
ditto what everyone else said, madam. I have never seen a small child get tied to his or her stirrups when on a huge horse, only to almost get squashed by said horse! you may not personally be involved in these practises but you cannot deny it is incredibly ignorant however well behaved the horse is. horses are animals afterall. do not take the p1ss out of me, america does seem to be one of the worst culprits for this kind of behaviour that we get wind of, what with western riding being so lax in safety in comparison with what we're used to over here.
 
Yeah but... they can still fall and accidents can still happen no matter how well the horse is trained and to tie feet to stirrups is soo dangerous. I would rather come off cleanly then be dragged about with feet tied to stirrups.
 
The safest pony in the world could still fall over, it was an accident pure and simple.
But that little girl was hanging there like a rag doll and it was only the fact that the horse stood still after getting up that saved her from being seriously injured or killed.
 
and one hand shorter makes it safer? LOL



I never at any point condoned the vid ( I have not watched it)


I was speaking about small children on big horses here ( mostly QH's)


In my opinion ( having experience wit the QH breed) I would WAY rather my child be on a QH that ANY crazy pony


AND I would never tie my children to any saddle
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Pony or not!
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