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- this week in lessons
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- Westwood Warmblood Dressage Daze
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5 comments:
Why is it that the only pictures the serial, kijiji-ALLCAPS-horse-rescuer can seem to produce involve standing on the horse?
Is that how they think you are supposed to ride?
Do they teach stand-up riding at the same school that seems to have lost the lower case alphabet?
I could totally stand up on Warrior for a picture (yeah, sure, it would be because he's be in the middle of a stroke, paralyzed) but still.
Yes, but can you stand up underneath him? That is the twist to this sales ad!
I wonder if horses can see a rider standing on their back...maybe it is one of those things that looks scarier than it is. Not that I have any inclination to try it...but maybe could experiment with random toddlers and some of my green horses.
There's one guy that always has lots of horses for sale with pictures of himself standing on the horse. I know the intention is to make people think, "Oooh, look how quiet that horse is! I want to buy him!" but all I think is, "seller is a doofus."
Of course, if adults want to risk their necks to sell a horse, that's their own problem, but it takes a special kind of stupidity to put a child at risk of receiving a catastrophic head injury just to sell a horse.
You should try it on the pony...less far to fall. Safer for toddlers.
Pony has far too highly developed a sense of humour for me to think she would be the best choice....
I don't actually think it means that much to the horse....they can't really see that well behind them, so if you hold their head straight, why would they care if you are standing or sitting?
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