Very bad sportsmanship (video)

What a spoiled petulant brat. Poor horse was jumping lovely despite her being continually in front of the movement. I hope someone had a severe word with her, and if she doesn't learn to sit on her arse and that happens again I hope the horse takes the opportunity to kick her up it.
 
I sincerely hope someone went after her with a whip afterwards.

She doesn't even catch her own horse - she's nowhere in the video that I can see by the time they're leading it out.

Obviously there have been worse things done to horses for less, but that doesn't make it right! ;)
 
She wasn't right to do it, but I think she was probably embarassed and it was just reaction really. It was brattish and she needs a kick up the jacksy and if I were her mum she would have got it. The horse wasn't in the wrong here, and it wasn't even a sharp run out or dirty stop, so yeah she needs a severe talking to but I have seen worse.
 
How to make yourself look a **** in one easy move , no wonder she wasn't going to be the one able to catch him again , she needs a good kick up the arse herself..!!
 
Ginger_Nut said:
As have I. Still doesn't make it right!
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Didn't say it was right!

FWIW, I don't think she managed to hit him anyway, he pulled away as she took a swipe at him.

I think there are worse things going on in the horse world to be getting your knickers in a twist about tbh.
 
ajn1610 said:
What a spoiled petulant brat. Poor horse was jumping lovely despite her being continually in front of the movement. I hope someone had a severe word with her, and if she doesn't learn to sit on her arse and that happens again I hope the horse takes the opportunity to kick her up it.
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Couldnt have put it any better:D
 
Urg! I've seen this video before! There's several like it on youtube and they don't get any easier to watch! Sure, it's not the cruelest thing I've ever seen, but it makes her out to look like a witch.
 
That was a really nice example of how to ride a horse round on the forehand with little contact and being ahead of the movement, honest little horse was doing his best, turd of a rider!
 
Completely unjustified.

If she was a better rider the horse wouldn't have stopped and she wouldn't have fallen off - it was her own fault.

And even if the horse had been to blame, there's no excuse for walloping it in the head with a stick, just because you're embarrassed.

It's not abuse on a grand scale - far worse things happen - its just the appalling attitude of the rider that makes it so objectionable.
 
looking at the faces of other people in the arena i'd say they were quite shocked and embarrassed by it so i'm guessing after she smacked the horse she was told to leave the arena and someone else came in to catch it.
the horse wasn't going to go anywhere near the girl but as soon as someone walked up to him he went to them. seems like she hits him quite alot as he knew what was coming after she fell off.
 
soulfull said:
agree with others that say I've seen worse. yes not particularly a nice thing to do but doesn't mean she is evil.
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More ignorant than evil, I'd say.

However, it's not just bad sportsmanship - it's terribly poor horsemanship, because it shows a complete failure to understand what constitutes okay versus futile or harmful punishment. In this case, she hit the horse several seconds after the "offending event" rendering the punisher worse than useless. Moreover, it was done in anger - something a good horseperson would never do.
 
I don't know if it was frustration due to her lack of talent / experience or her personality (ie spoiled brat). Either way it obviously isn't the first time she's used a stick by the evasive action of the horse as soon as she turned to face him, even before she lifted the stick. Usually worse goes on at home than in public where people show more restraint, so I have to pity the poor horse & suspect he knows what a whip is about. You can only hope an adult takes on responsibility for teaching her respect for others, including animals, & not taking out the emotions of embarresment or anger in such a manner but learn to accept responsilibility for making the mistake which put the horse in a position from which it couldn't jump.
 
If I did that to my horse my Dad would have had that crop out of my hand & done the same to me!

I think the laughing was because the horse wouldn't be caught by her afterwards (fair enough!).

Agree with fburton bad HORSEmanship more than bad SPORTSmanship... but I get what the OP means.

I have seen worse when I was younger :( but I hope that now if I saw it I'd stand up to it.
 
Its one of those hunter-jumper classes in the US, where the aim seems to be for the horse to go round on the forehand, with no input from the rider picking its own striding and take off points. And to look as half dead as possible. The reaction of those filming seemed to indicate she wouldn't even be discplined for hitting the horse from the ground!
 
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