What intrests you the most?

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I am doing a project for college which I have to complete a 10 minute presentation for. I can do this project on anything I want so obviously I'm doing it on something horse related, it has to be intellectual and show something to do with science maths.

However, I don't want it to be boring for non horsey people so here are some of my ideas and I'd be grateful for you to tell me which topics you would find interesting and which I should stear clear of:

Colour genetics

Fitness of competition horses

Nutrition of horses

How jumping affects the horse

Damages of backing a horse too young

The strain put on dressage horses competing at a high level

What travelling can do to your horses

Do supplements actually work

As I'm also doing physcology I was thinking of doing somthing about nervous riders and how to overcome these nerves.


These are just rough ideas and will be expanded etc, if you have any good idas aswell I'd be very grateful :)
 
I would have thought the one on how jumping affects the horse would have been interesting, as you can include angles on take off and landing, degree of extension in the front leg tendons as it lands etc, chemical requirements within the body to perfom etc, BUT i am hopelessly horsey and fail to see why anyone would find anything horsey remotely boring lol!!!!!!!!
 
Trying to look at your suggestions from a non-horsey person's point of view, then I would probably think the nervous rider talk would be most interesting, as nerves, lack of confidence, etc. etc. can easily be applied to all walks of life - not just horse riding!
 
I like the idea of how nerves can affect riders. And maybe methods of coping with nerves.

Failing that, the supplements one sounds interesting to me!
 
I am hopelessly horsey too and can't work out why people don't want a lecture about horses :p

I was thinking that would be a good one for nervous riders but I think it will be very difficult to do.
 
i think it would be a good idea to put this list on a non-horsey forum somewhere, as tbh i could sit through a lecture on any of those topics quite happily ...
finding it hard to put myself in the place of a non-horsey person here :D
 
From a non-horsey point of view, the backing a young horse could be interesting and could teach the slightly clueless people the truth and how things are really done and what would happen if it wasnt done right.
I know my mum woulve benifitted from a lecture about this, when my horse was pregnant she thought you could buy tiny saddles and have kids ride the foal :eek: Needless to say i went hysterical :rolleyes:
 
I'm currently writing up my doctorate Psychology thesis on anxiety, so obviously I'm leaning towards the nervous rider! I'd avoid dressage though: not that it wouldn't be interesting, but you might have to waste too much of your very brief 10mins giving a background of what high level dressage competition involves to non-horsey folk, which might constrain your time to talk about the negative effects that might have too much. Jumping just seems to be more accessible to the masses. (Heaven knows the BBC are only really interested in the XC and SJ days of 3 days events, giving no more than a 5min review of the dressage round usually; it means even channel hopping, few non-horsey folk will have seen any/much).

They all sound great though: best of luck with it!
 
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