well, ok, at the risk of stirring things up... i just feel its odd
that a horse so valuable, so well trained you would think, hauled here
there and everywhere every weekend to perform in front of thousands of
people, horses and people and chaos everywhere... would spook and
throw a rider and then bolt like a maniac for the barn. I know things
happen. and yes you are right nancy, its not right when people
criticise some events and not others, so I will just criticise them
all :) I just feel like... horses are like children and we, as their
keepers, need to outfit them best to make it in this world. WHy was
that horse so spooky, riding at home. was he hyped up on hot feed?
Too many supplements and not enough exercise to disperse energy??
Some have said oh how wonderful the oconnors are, how they must be
greiving... but i dont see that. I watched their reality series with
great interest, every episode. They are big time show people in that
field and make a boatload of money training horses and taking them
into competitons for people etc. its a BUSINESS. follow the money...
There was one episode, sad as it was, poor so and so, a truly
wonderful horse, lost like three events in a row, didnt even place.
He was a great jumper but sucked at dressage. They sold him and the
young girl who had been riding him for years was told she would have
to pick out another horse. thats how it is with them. she cried and
clung to his neck, oh well! If a horse doesnt win, they dont give a
rats a__ about it. And Theodore WON, so oh its so horribly sadddddddd
theodore the WINNER died. If he wasnt a winner you would be able to
pick him up at auction for a hundred bucks, and I guarantee you that.
I have fell off horses so many times it aint even funny. broken just
dozens of bones. I dont believe one of them ever ran off. But I dont
keep mine hyped up like maniacs, like you have to do to these eventers
to keep them competitive. On the reality show I saw what they fed the
horses, some were on a dozen supplements. They made a big deal of how
they needed all that to be competitive. I just feel theres something
off here, that a horse so accustomed to chaos would spook and kill
hisself like that. Something really off. sorry.
janice--
even good horses have bad days sometimes.
