Should novice riders be banned?

Shilasdair said:
Hello
I've read a lot of threads condemning heavier riders, and the appalling damage they do to horses' backs by the excess weight.
Is it now time that we don't let anyone without a minimum qualification own a riding horse?
In the same way that you need a driving license to drive a car, perhaps we need to impose a minimum BHS Stage 2 pass before you may ride without supervision?
I'm sick of seeing novice riders continually behind the movement, and thus landing heavily on their horses' poor back muscles, failing to have an independent hand, so socking them in the teeth or 'sawing' them into an outline. Horses are sentient animals, and they certainly didn't evolve to be ridden.
And don't even mention lunging - which seems to be a wall of death experience, whilst the dimwit owner cracks whips behind the running, stiff-backed horse.
Your thoughts?
S :)
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Not just confined to novice riders. Check out the winner of a recent 1-60m competition abroad Andrew Kocher in one of his videos....https://horse-canada.com/horse-news...qz53u3mnfSEQvGGOyxJa2mWELMBOL9mHOpPDXeD0EulaA
 
Mrs B said:
I used to wilfully (and incompetently) pilot my blue Space Hopper (bigger than the common-or-garden orange ones, so actually about 17.6hh) around a set of jumps in the garden made of painted bamboo canes ... the fun one was the water jump we made with a length of plastic sheet covered in a thin layer of water - hell if you hit it at an angle on the bounce as you skidded 20 feet into the flower beds.

Great practice for riding real ponies and I recommend it to the House as a necessary prerequisite for being allowed (or alloud?) on any breathing equine henceforth.

PS - How is your Evilness this fine summer?
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I did this too - not many people remember the blue Space Hoppers - oh to be as fit again 😅
 
tallyho! said:
A cob that shape should easily absorb the potato sack and jelly armed jabs of the novice rider.





Aaaaaaah so that’s why people want to own cobs...
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😂 You've solved it! You've discovered the meaning of the cob.
 
mule said:
I remember having a yellow seahorse one 😊Maybe the reason the new ones look like fish is because they're copying the original seahorse ones.
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They came with a rubber ring didn't they? I remember them floating well in the bath 🤣
 
mule said:
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I vaguely remember something from school biology about a foetus looking like fish being something about evolution. (That sounds a bit mad so I'm going to look it up)
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Embryonic humans (and other animals) do reflect earlier stages in evolution, yes. For instance, the heart develops initially as a tube, and becomes 4 chambered later during development - similar to earlier stages in evolution (fish for example, have a two chambered heart more like the tube form). There's loads of similar examples.
 
Yes, the internet informs me that the fish, human embryo thing is evidence that mammalian life originated from fish = evolution
 
I didn't even need to consult the internet. I have a plethora of utterly useless information on the tip of my tongue.
 
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