Only in america!!

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left outside and freeze to death!! have you seen the weather in this country??

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LMAOOOOOOOO yeah it is so much more brutal than here in Wisconsin! LMAOOO


WAIT! I forgot! You all think we live on the beach with Pamela Anderson! LOL
 
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you could bet your assthough if we tried to leave it out unrugged over winter spring er winter again autumn some do gooder would phone the rspca

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I imagine you are right
 
What? barrel racing or hunter trialling. I was secretly rather relieved that my daughter didn't get too involved in any sort of cross country riding; I can remember the sort of risks that we used to take.

I might actually have benefitted from being tied to the saddle, thinking about it...

I think you're over-reacting to the barrel racing vid, to be honest.

LOL a lot of my non-horsey friends would pi$$ themselves laughing at this argument, since its so obvious to any sane person that horse-riding is a totally unnecessary danger anyway....
 
you are right alleycat
All equestrian sports are dangerous no matter how well you *think* you are protecting your children



AGAIN...not saying I would tie a child to stirrups or have I ever witnessed it happen.




btw...I also think a few times I may heve been better of tied in. Mostly with ponies! lol
 
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I just watched the vid


NO WAY was that girl tied to ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Her foot just got caught ! She was immediately assisted and she was FINE

HORSE WAS CALM!!!!!!! all is well



could have happened in any area of equestrain sport tbh


oh yeah....your helmets and body protectors would save your children if a pony fell on them and crushed them



girl is more likely to be killed in her parents car, sorry
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horse was calm because leg was caught in reins... anyway as much as I would like to carry this on I have a child who I must help finsih putting on her make up before medicating her while I go out for tapas and to check that her 17hh is ok for the competion tomorrow. hmm must check that her bobble hat is clean and her safety check shirt has been washed
 
lol...I understand

I have to go too

I have to teach my children to say YE HAWWWWW! explain to them that Iraq knocked down the World Trade Center, Tell them that outside of America there is only Ocean and slap a cowboy hat on them
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I have not read all the posts but the first few and I have to say though although the video clip was horrific, America does not have the monopoly on idiocy! Many countries exhibit stupidity and Britain is rife with it!!! On more occassions than I care to say I have seen children walking dogs without aldut supervision that are far too strong for them. A particularly memorable one was a small girl around 9 or 10 walking a large German Shepherd IN SEASON around...The bitch saw a dog across the road and ran to it...the little girl was dragged on her face causing considerable injury to herself and problems for the poor dog owner who had his dog under control and now had 2 dogs to deal with, but thankfully no cars where coming. I saw this and ran shouting to let the dog go...She was crying and cut badly but would not let the dog go as her mum would 'smack her'
Now rather hypocritical to generalise about who has International stupidity rights!
 
That kid looks too young to me...
There should be some kind of age restriction, the little child obviously didnt have a clue what to do but was lucky.

And horses are animals, they are not machines!! They are unpredictable so every caution should be taken to be safe; as even the safest horse can have an accident.

And a body protector and hat would definitely help if a horse/pony was to fall on a horse, so what's the harm in using one?!
 
On behalf of part of the UK residents who actually like the Americans and dont feel the need to generalise so much; I apologise to you Jade!

Ive seen just as eye-brow raising cases occur in the UK in regards to teaching methods (or stickability methods).

The rest of the arguments are just getting silly
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Try to remember how huge that country is compared to the UK. With their associated size goes an associated number of nutcases and crime problems. It's not like the UK is in a much superior state, just a smaller scale.

Perhaps putting the faces of children missing in the UK onto consumer products would be a better way to draw attention to those of them who haven't received the media attention of Madelaine.....
 
I think it's quite possible that the child's foot went through the stirrup. This would explain why the foot on the left side came free.
Whilst Americans ARE responsible for Michael Jackson and other nutjobs, I agree the statement 'only in America' was unnecessarily inflammatory and actually rather offensive. Idiots populate the entire globe and there is a remarkable concentration of them at my old yard!
 
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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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EVERYONE here learns to ride on horses. Ponies virtually do not exist and are considered less reliable and trustworthy than horses. Alba, whom I used to give lessons at my old yard is around 15.2 and an utter saint. My youngest student was 7 and adored her. He gained so much confidence on her.
 
Just watched the video, nobody can be sure if feet were tied in or foot went through the stirrup. I image it the latter as the other foot came out immediately. What did alarm me was the horse's struggle to get onto it's feet because of the strap running, like a standing martingale from nose band to girth, it couldn't naturally swing it's head up for momentum to get up!
 
OK, I spent a fair bit of time in America and enjoyed it very much. However, I have to say that our body protectors and hats DO save lives. There is no doubt about this. If fact, the one time I fell off I landed on my head (horse reared and flipped while I was adjusting the girth!) and had I not been wearing a hat I would no doubt have been killed instantly. Everyone can tell you similar stories about hats and body protectors. Riding is a dangerous sport so why make it more so by not wearing any protection? I wouldn't go out in the car without a seatbelt on.

Incidentally, even if that kid "only" got her foot stuck in the stirrup, had she been bigger or using more suitably sized stirrups, she probably wouldn't have got it stuck.
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dragging in maddie mccann is well below the belt. thats my point.

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and it's right to drag in JonBenet?

FGS beauty pagants happen in England too....
 
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Criticize?
Oh stop it! Why can't you just back down, admit you made a sweeping generalisation that was unnecessarily offensive and unfair and let it go?
If someone had said 'Only in the UK' and posted a video of the Amersham horses, or obsese show ponies, you would've quite rightly been outraged.
Barrel racing may well be confined to North America, but stupidity is GLOBAL. The fact that it's barrel racing on a horse is irrelevant; it wouldn't have been any less stupid to tie a kid's feet to her stirrups if she'd been hacking or jumping because, as we all know horses are unpredictable creatures (I'm still not convinced her feet ARE tied to them, BTW)
And by the way, you know ONE QH and assume all are nutjobs? The QH is well-known for having one of steadiest and kindest temperaments around. Much like the Argentine Criollo.
 
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Criticize?
Oh stop it! Why can't you just back down, admit you made a sweeping generalisation that was unnecessarily offensive and unfair and let it go?
If someone had said 'Only in the UK' and posted a video of the Amersham horses, or obsese show ponies, you would've quite rightly been outraged.
Barrel racing may well be confined to North America, but stupidity is GLOBAL. The fact that it's barrel racing on a horse is irrelevant; it wouldn't have been any less stupid to tie a kid's feet to her stirrups if she'd been hacking or jumping because, as we all know horses are unpredictable creatures (I'm still not convinced her feet ARE tied to them, BTW)
And by the way, you know ONE QH and assume all are nutjobs? The QH is well-known for having one of steadiest and kindest temperaments around. Much like the Argentine Criollo.

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Excuse me! I made that statement defending Jade, I am not the orginal poster or made derogtory remarks about the USA .. in fact if you read back I said the kids feet were NOT tied in the stirrups
 
Ok finally watched the clip and I agree with those who say there is no way in hell you can tell that little girls feet were tied into the stirrups, it could have just as easily been that her foot went the whole way through and then jammed.

Someone else mentioned the horse struggling to get up due to the rein though and i agree that i find that rather worrying. Many horses in those circumstances would have freaked out. Again though, you cant say thats limited to america, infact the UK and mainland Europe are pretty big on draw reins, side reins and any other rein to try and tie their horses heads down.... what does that say about us?
 
I have to say - I was amazed as to how much the horse struggled to get up BUT there were many people on site very, very quicky lending a hand. I would think that that must be safer than being 300-400metres away from anyone on an XC course? Ho hum.

I would say that the kid just got her foot stuck, and I am sure many of us have seen this happen before. It does happen. The process of tying anyone to a saddle, is absurd, but in this case I do think that it was just an accident.

No more generalisations about the States either, it really is pitiful that some of the English are so anti-american. As a yank who has lived her for 20 years (I am now only a mere 21) the sentiment is getting worse, and in fact, I will be following my parents in a few months to move back over there! Anyone read Londinistan?
 
Hiya! I'll throw my proverbial hat in the ring as an American who has been living here for the last year and a half or so. As a lot of people can attest, Americans do not corner the market on stupidity. Granted, there is probably a great deal of parental vanity tied up in that little girl riding into the ring, the horse was very calm for a barrel horse--No rearing/bolting/etc., and I don't think she was tied into those stirrups. Of course, the fact that her little kid feet could go straight through the stirrup is JUST AS BAD, and most people know this (hence stirrup covers for western stirrups).

Helmets are starting to permeate other disciplines, and ridiculous-looking helmets are made with western hat style covers. I was one of the few english riders in my California 4-H group, and we started screening "Every Time, Every Ride" each year, which was a great help at recruiting the less safety minded into the helmet-wearing ranks between competitions (when helmets were required for all).

These people aren't stupid, they're just raised in a different environment. As a former cyclist (who wouldn't dare hit the roads of Mid-Sussex!), I can't believe the numbers of people I see cycling without protective headgear on narrow winding roads bordered closely by hedges, and frequented by "white van drivers," a phenomenon I am now very familiar with from my local hacks. While not precisely equivalent, it's certainly close in my mind--riding a horse with no helmet in an enclosed school vs. riding a bicycle with no helmet and tons of steel on wheels careening past you every few minutes on a narrow road.

And hello to you Americans out there in jolly ol' ... it's definitely different here, but I like both places!
 
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