--- In [email protected], "Karen Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've never ridden a park Saddlebred, but I've seen them ridden. I have an > ancient copy of the Helen Crabtree Saddle Seat Equitation. I can assure > you it's quite possible to post correctly to a saddlebred's trot.
Absolutely, it's not supposed to look anything like that. I rode saddlebreds as a child and again in college, and they have big trots, that man shouldn't be flying all around like that, his arms are going up and down, it's not good:) It really reminded me that I probably learned my foundations of equitation from my childhood riding teachers, seeing his hands reminded me of them drilling me on how to keep my hands still, on posting a trot like that without stirrups, it wasn't easy. I'm pretty turned off by the saddleseat I have seen around here, I don't think it's really a good way to ride. I want to see more relaxed and natural. I do like saddlebred horses though, it might be that the show horses are pretty high strung today, but I have met some really good tempered nice saddlebreds before, they were originally bred to be good reliable riding horses. > > Oh...wait...I made that exact same comment recently about some other big > ignorant buffoons. I guess there are blissfully ignorant rednecks on every > continent...and on every island.... > Exactly, I don't think we have ever denied that there are some complete idiots in horses around here. We aren't the ones who are in denial:) Kim
