14 thoughts on “three men busted in horse ring”

1. You wouldn’t/have never?

   You haven’t lived! That is up there with doing a Mexican Hat Dance (with partner) on a mall table at 1 am, driving with 14 people on a Lambretta Motor Scooter and beating a charging bull to the fence by about a pace! I’m just glad Youtube wasn’t around back then :)

2. Oh gosh that was funny! Almost ended up with coffee all over my new keyboard.

   John Cleese, eat your heart out.

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4. Actually, I placed third in the Prix de St.Georges at our schooling show, and would have placed even higher if I’d had a horse.

5. OK, I guess that puts you into the list of post-modern anti-establishment activists working against the complacency of the WASP-dominated North American hegemony?.

   Or were you on an excess of Baileys?

6. “Actually, I placed third in the Prix de St.Georges at our schooling show, and would have placed even higher if I’d had a horse.”

   *falls of chair laughing*

   *ouch*

7. Look, it’s real boring working in a stable. You try it some time; there’s something in the fumes coming off the manure that does this to you.

8. Hey, you’ve got no argument from me. In fact, I often feel sorry for these horses that are made to do often quite unnatural unhorsy things just to gratify the public.

   Last year I went to see a show of the very famous ‘Dancing Horses of Andalucia’ here in Seville and I spent so much time wincing and thinking – that can’t be right, how did they get the horse to do such a thing? – that I didn’t end up enjoying the show much.

9. Actually, you’d be surprised; the foals do that in the fields. Seriously, they’re born to it. You should see the disco dancing dressage champ on Bridlepath; it’s an amazing show. You can tell the horse loves the beat!

10. I guess I was referring more to the things that looked like they maybe hurt – like making the horses jump up and down on their hind legs with the front legs up in the air, like making them shoot both front and back legs out so they were suspended in mid-air for a brief moment …

    Just making them move to music wasn’t a problem for me.

11. No, they do that too! The Lipizzanners do that as well even as babies. They’ve been bred to do that naturally since the middle ages: it used to be a technique for making sure anybody sneaking up behind you got deaded. And the rearing and coming down on command was to add more power to your sword stroke, I kid you not.

    They choose horses for this discipline by watching what they do naturally. The ones who don’t are culled and sold for other purposes. Although in any discipline there are evil trainers as well as good ones; some of the things they do to Tennessee Walking Horses and Saddlebreds would curdle your tea! Same with some of the Western gaming horses…and race horses…but the horses themselves have a natural aptitude. What you’re seeing is what training can add to natural ability.

12. and then there was The Stable People . . . .

13. My father’s oldest joke: She was only a stable man’s daughter, but all the horse men knew her.

14. I hate to be a neighsayer . . .

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