Very different!!!!!!! Training horses!!

Not sure if you have seen this before!!??

http://www.kurtsystems.com/aboutus.asp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBkfwgF8UcM

Wondered what your opinions were of it!! (NOT that i will be getting one!!!!)
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The little foal in it
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I know... the poor thing should be with its mum at that age! it looks really odd seeing it working, trotting along in that huge thing!
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I wonder how my girl would take to it... the rail one looks like something at Alton Towers!!!!
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wtf!.......???? lol, don't know how they figured it could help stop problems caused by 'man-made' intervention in training!??? looked like guantanamo bay for horses! and as if the racing industry wasn't intensive enough... and the foal!..and, and and......!!!??
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strange idea but i can see a place for it in racing as it would make it cheeper in the long run it would also be helpfull with our recoup work as they are under great control but im not sure about having the foal in there or if the horses fell or even tripped!?
 
Cripes, just when you think you've seen it all, you see it all.
I don't even know where to start. there's a word for a totally ridiculous over-engineered solution to something, i can't think of it, but this is one!
my main worry is that it takes away the possibility of the rider feeling something... if the horse is just a tiny bit wrong, a good work rider can feel it and pull up. i think you can often feel things before they're visible (unless you're AT, of course). the 'driver' wouldn't necessarily see something until it was too late. and what if the horse trips... doesn't bear thinking about. perhaps that's what the chest harness that clips on to the sides is for, but i can still envisage legs breaking...
working the foal is just 100% plain WRONG, and i'd love to know the %age of foals that have been worked like that and stand up to racing etc. i'd lay a lot of money it wouldn't be high.
as a way of getting yearlings and immature 2-yr olds race-fit without a rider on, i suppose it might have some value, but for god's sake, if they're that immature, they shouldn't be working at all yet! the breakdown percentages are beyond disgusting imho.
and i can't see how it saves manpower if you need one driver per horse on the individual machines... you might just as well stick him on top!
i wonder where it was filmed... any bets on Dubai?
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OMG
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I've seen it all now!!!!!!!!! I'm not a great fan of the racing industry in any case, but this is just so wrong
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why dont they just stick a duracell battary up the horses arse and have done with it!!!! Hugh fecking Withinstall bangs on about intensive chicken farming, this is the racing worlds equivilent. For such a willing and noble animal to be reduce to this IMO is just wrong
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Somebody (or presumably quite a few somebodies) hasn't quite grasped the concept that Horses aren't machines...

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(got to be Dubai!) even the bloke's voice sounds manufactured, the lads in their matching over-alls, it's all very new world order.... creepy and un-nerving even. Then I have an over active imagination...lol
 
Looks like just the alternative to a car with the current fuel prices- I wonder if you could tow a trailer and 2 horses behind it!!
 
Wow!! I know there are a few people who do the NH/parelli route but this taked not riding your horse to extremes!! Do you think to get them in it in the first place they chase them with a carrot stick??!!

Slightly weird!!!
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I am not a fan of the racing game either and I feel they have turned horses into money making machines - yes I know money makes the world go round etc etc etc but this sinks to a new low in my eyes. What as happened to good old fashioned traing - there again I am not a lover of any quick fix "artifical aid" - you can not beat good old fashioned schooling but we seem in such a hurry to "bring on " horses today
 
Hm...something different certainly. It took me a while to understand what the point of this was...especailly as they go on about human error (or whatever they say). I guess you could use it the same way some yards might use a horse walker
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but ultimately have more control on pace, direction etc?? I'm not sure i like it - there are so many questions that are not answered as many people have said, what about safety? It also eliminates the 'feel' of the rider being able to identfy things that might be wrong - also, if its aimed at racing, surely it would be more benefical to have the horse on the gallops with a rider - after all, in the race itself, this is what will happen.

The working of the foal is just wrong.
 
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