Today’s mystery: Gaited Horses + Idiots = Magnetic Attraction?
Jan 10 2008
I seriously want to know this. Why are the most ignorant, idiotic horse owners in the world so attracted to gaited horses? It always seems that Rocky Mountain Horses and Tennessee Walkers are most often victimized by the scum-of-the-earth sector of the horse owning population.
Is that because they are so even tempered that any moron can ride them, or are there other factors at play?
I mean, WTF????
This is a FOURTEEN MONTH OLD RMH.
“she is 14 months old,never been road much,barn keept,brown and white”
Look at him. You just know his name is Goober. (the poor critter is owned by “Tawynia.” Of course it is.)
To borrow a term from COTH, I am aghasted.
So share your tales…why do you think the poor gaited horses have to deal with this, day in and day out? Do they simply need to learn to bolt like Thoroughbreds and buck like an Appy in a bad mood in order to protect themselves? How can we stop the insanity?
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I am so disgusted by the way TWHs are treated. The origin of soring, as we all know, was in the TWH classes and to this day people still insist on making these poor horses wear platform shoes, chains and what all else. Most of the horses in the blues are so drastically uphill the rider has to ride hunchbacked and hanging on to the horses mouth while the poor horse flails his way around the ring. It makes me ill. Gaits are bred not induced!
I know this is an old post but I just found it again and have to proclaim how much I agree with it! I love the heading!
You so rock my horse-obsessed world!