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I have seen young hackney foals "step" like they are asked to do later in life in carriages.
WOW! not in a good way
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paddy555
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The reiners in the rein back. Yeah how fast would you like 
ester
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Somehow the WP horses being surrounded by the others manages to make them look even more crippled than usual, especially the crab canter
paddy555
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they look like they have sore feet or the riders are scared to go any fasterA friend of mine back home recently posted a video of a flat class made up of various western styles including this one. When I first watched it, I actually wondered why so many lame horses were being ridden....
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Juniper Jack
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It's horrible. Back when I was a kid Western Pleasure was just pleasure horses going in normal gaits. I have no idea how this modern version got started or how it's lasted. It may not be as horrid as Big Lick walking horses but it is about as stupid and unnatural as modern "hunt seat" here in the US, which wouldn't last half an hour in the hunting field.!
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I don't think I would dare sit on one.I sat on one in Australia and he made me look like I knew how to cut cows! Obviously that was the plan but it was how fast he moved that surprised me. Stock saddles are great for keeping a rider in the saddle
humblepie
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I had a western lesson and the only thing my brain could compute was the instruction for rein back. Hand up and forward my legs forward and back. Was pretty cool. I really struggled with the other elements not due to anything bad re the horse or the teaching but just very different aids.
littleshetland
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It’s just so sad. Horses aren’t meant to move like that. Its a bit like taking an elite human athlete and tying their shoelaces together. It’s painful to watch.
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this is a better example of what i guess is a QH.
Shame he couldn't afford all the tack
Snowfilly
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That wasn’t the clip I saw so there’s at least two horses got this figured out!
Although thinking about it, my childhood Shetland probably knew the bending race pattern better than I did. She’d probably have raced just as well if I’d got off.
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Between my friends and me we've had several horses that naturally knew how to "cut" sheep.
I had one in particular, the one in my avatar, who would dance left and right like a blocking rugby player to make a sheep go the way we wanted it to.
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I had one in particular, the one in my avatar, who would dance left and right like a blocking rugby player to make a sheep go the way we wanted it to.
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Nasicus
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My gosh that looks like incredibly boring! Both to watch and to ride! And when the 'loping' starts, it really shows off how awful the Please Horse 'lope' is compared to the cow horses!A friend of mine back home recently posted a video of a flat class made up of various western styles including this one. When I first watched it, I actually wondered why so many lame horses were being ridden....
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palo1
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Both my Appaloosa x Arab and my Welsh D have a very natural/unschooled approach to sheep work - it's interesting! The appt x is a bit more drive-y and even a bit aggressive which works better with cattle though we don't need our cattle actually worked unless they escape! The Welsh D has the perfect amount of drive for sheep however and has, on several occasions been able to cut one ewe/ewe and lamb and bring them back over the hill which is at least a couple of miles usually and full of tempting gorse bushes. I'd like to think, somewhere in her DNA is some proper farm horse! Both are 'working' breeds so you would hope have good brains for that kind of work. I'd simply not have any horse if it naturally moved like those WP nightmares...
Landcruiser
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My old criollo (who had been a cattle horse for real in Uraguy) knew how to do cutting. The first time I crossed a field of (over friendly) bullocks he faced up to them, dropped down in front, and started trying to cut them - it was quite an experience, and he really didn't want to leave them!
Beausmate
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Money, lots and lots of money.
I'm Dun
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And that's why they still have PSSM 1 in those western pleasure horses - they're not allowed to move properly so no one knows when they can't
I wouldnt be surprised if they breed for it and feed to get symptomatic horses. A very mildly tied up horse would be a bonus in that situation.
Lois Lame
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That's an interesting thought, I'm Dun, and I wouldn't be surprised if you are right.