WOW! not in a good way

Somehow the WP horses being surrounded by the others manages to make them look even more crippled than usual, especially the crab canter
 
Gloi said:
I can't see the point of the western pleasure. Where's the pleasure in riding a horse going like that.
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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.!
 
Snowfilly said:
There was a clip I saw a while back of a barrel horse running the pattern loose after the rider fell at the first turn and he managed it very well indeed.
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That made me chortle. I'd love to have seen that.

Snowfilly said:
You’re definitely meant to be able to just sit on a good cow horse, you point out the cow you want, the horse gets it and you stay out the way. There’s pics of some high level riders riding with folded arms or hands on their thighs to show off, it’s impressive.
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Yes, it is.
 
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.
 
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this is a better example of what i guess is a QH.
Shame he couldn't afford all the tack 🤣 🤣 🤣
 
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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lynz88 said:
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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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!
 
ycbm said:
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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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...
 
SEL said:
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 😡
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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.
 
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