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| I just came back from a pretty big show. It AMAZES me to see how many kids are being overmounted and their parents are dumb enough to think nothing of it. Strapping your kid on a horse that is too much for your child doesn't make it SAFER! The length that some people go to to win a check just plain amazes me!
I know this topic has been discussed plenty of times so I apologize for beating a dead horse. RANT OVER. |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | love2ridepre - 2017-12-04 7:36 AM I just came back from a pretty big show. It AMAZES me to see how many kids are being overmounted and their parents are dumb enough to think nothing of it. Strapping your kid on a horse that is too much for your child doesn't make it SAFER! The length that some people go to to win a check just plain amazes me! I know this topic has been discussed plenty of times so I apologize for beating a dead horse. RANT OVER.
It bugs me too, I hate seeing scared kids. The show world seems to be the opposite. I often rethink buying a young horse and trying to train him myself, when I could have bought a youth show horse and other than some maintainence, would have had a safe and finished mount. These horses are so quiet and push button for those kids. |
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| this weekend there were a few terrified kids and spectators! Makes me mad! When you have horses rearing and going all crazy and it takes a miracle to get them in the gate plus they take the kids for a dead run around the barrels/arena totally out of control that is pretty unsafe in my book, but what do I know, right? |
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| I think the parents want the kids to "win" way more than the kids want to win. It is scary.
I have seen some hellah kid jockeys in my day, but they are few and far between, like you said, mostly over-mounted. |
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| I agree with your rant, but to add it, my rant of the day is about people who have dangerous horses and think that they should fix them while the PeeWee's are running. We were at a smaller show this weekend, in a nice indoor arena. While the peewee's were all standing in the alley, waiting to run, someone decided to try and fix their gate sour horse. The Open horse was rearing up and almost landed on my son's horse. The horse did hit my son's horses head and ran into my son's leg. For the rest of the day, my son's horse was skittish and my son was nervous. I apologize for ranting and stealing your thread, but it is a sore subject because it just happened yesterday. |
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| no apology necessary. I hate that you kid and his horse had to go through that. My philosophy has always been to do training at home not at the show. Unfortunately "gate issues" can probably only be addressed at a race, but there is always a place and a time and definitely that time or place is NOT while the peewees are getting ready to run. |
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| I do understand that she needed to work with her horse, but she needed to do it at a different time when there weren't a dozen kids in the alley. She was lucky that my son is older and rides a bigger horse. He was only in the alley, sitting with his friends that are still in the Peewees. |
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Location: Canada | I find it terrifying to watch some of these kids. They're scared and crying and barely hanging on --- how much fun can that be. But then they win something and the fear is forgotten until the next time. I'm like holy crap what goes through these peoples minds when they send their child on fire breathing dragons.
As for the woman schooling her horse with the peewees the producers should have come over and removed her from that area. There is a time and place for that and it's certainly not around children. People are crazy. |
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Location: East Texas | So I am with you....it is not kids on fast horses, but the parents that put them on horses that they can't control. |
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| I would have told that gal to get her crazy a** horse out of the alley. She needed to go kick rocks. Some barrel racers do not have boundaries and are selfish at races. |
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| spitzh - 2017-12-05 9:39 AM I would have told that gal to get her crazy a** horse out of the alley. She needed to go kick rocks. Some barrel racers do not have boundaries and are selfish at races.
100% agree and I did make a teenage girl leave the alley last weekend on her spinning/ rearing horse while my 2 1/2 year old grandson and one other toddler were waiting on their turn for leadline. Her mom came over to have a chat with me, I stayed polite with a smile, but told her lead line is first so we can the kids done and out of the way and maybe she does not understand that they’re needs/wants to work their horse don’t supersede the safety of these kids. If my grandson continues to ride he will stay on his pony till he can handle a step up on his own, he will not use a magic seat. |
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