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Stop hiding horse abuse within NRHA show arenas...
As we begin closing in on the NRHA futurity... this time of year has become a crucial point for spotting abusive training tactics.
Owners PLEASE check your horses sides!!!
It's not okay to paint them or patch their sides up to enter the show arena...
If you care about your horses at all... go check your horses sides... physically touch them. Physically see them.
Stop being silent about the abuse... stop being compliant because you like your trainer or you're afraid to speak out. Your horses don't have a voice.
Please don't allow this. It's not okay. It's abusive!
There are plenty of other trainers within NRHA that aren't abusive... so don't go along with it just because you don't want to cause conflict

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I am surprised at the number of people who were unaware of the distinction between a cavesson and a nose band in the recent post about lost horsemanship information. And I was annoyed at the young riders who corrected me, saying there is no distinction. For them, here is another lost detail from military horsemanship.

Starting in the early 1950s I took lessons from a former cavalryman. He taught us how a US Cavalry Trooper had two wool blankets with him when riding outside his garrison. One blanket was tri-folded (folded in half lengthwise, then folded into thirds along the folded in half length) for use as his saddle pad. His other blanket was rolled up and attached to his saddle with leather straps. He slept with one blanket placed on the ground and the other was over him.

At the end of the day's march, that might be up to 75 miles, when they made camp their saddle pad was wet with sweat. The wet wool blanket was unfolded and put over the horse as a cooler. Lose forage/hay was placed under the wet blanket in piles, five along the spine and four along the ribs on each side as the horse was tied to a picket line. This technique allowed the horse's warm body heat to dry both the horse's back and the wet blanket. As the blanket dried and the horse cooled, the hay fell out from under the dried blanket to the ground where the horse ate the hay.

This was explained to us with great precision. Army methods were very exact, like the five piles along the spine. There was a correct and an incorrect way to do everything. This technique is very useful still for drying a wet blanket while leaving it on a horse. It dries a blanket very quickly, doesn't waste hay and avoids the necessity to bring the horse to the barn and switch to a dry blanket.

Young riders, try to find this in your catalogs, magazine articles and chats. ;)

Another day Another bloody 3 year old off the flat with kissing spine....

I am so sick of seeing these beautiful horses ruined before they have had a chance in life.

This lad is a big 3 year old who ran at 2 and was clearly weak and backwards.

Is it hereditary? Possibly.

Do we cause it training young horses too hard before they're mature, with bad fitting saddles and poor riding? Undoubtedly.

Something needs to be done. However there is so much money in running horses at 2 and 3 why would they stop it?

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Wow I am amazed at the response this post has received. I thought I would just add a few thoughts to share with you.

On the whole trainers love their horses, but some are misguided in their approach.

Racing has become cut throat and disposable. We start training on the whole, because we love these beautiful animals, however love doesn't pay the rent.

The pressure to get results has increased exponentially over the past 10 years, with prize money decreasing, which leads to trainers behaving somewhat immorally in certain situations.

There is no excuse where the welfare of the horse is concerned. However as someone pointed out to me, quite viciously a couple of weeks ago, I don't understand how hard it is as I have it so easy...Seriously he actually said that...

Desperate men take desperate measures and whilst there is a thriving gambling industry and owners who want results quickly, who don't want to pay vast training fees and get no return mean horse welfare will always suffer. The sick, lame and the sorry will be discarded, the lucky ones will find their way to people like me and some of you.

What can we do? Well we can bloody well start to educate owners to understand that pushing horses too early causes these issues.

We can stop breeding from lines that have the genetic predisposition.

We can educate trainers about the damage half tree exercise saddles do.

We can help teach staff and trainers how to ride their horses to give them the best chance to stay sound, how to go in a way they engage the topline, strengthen the lumbar and stop them being crooked.

To learn to change their diagonal, to learn to not ride off their hands, to help the horses who are weak and struggling, to make sure horses can canter on both legs equally...(sounds simple doesn't it??).

Stop the staff hoiking their stirrups up by their ears, putting all the weight on one small area on young backs.

To stop tying heads down with ridiculously tight bungees because this builds "top line"...

Sorry I shouldn't rant but in the end I train horses because I love them, obviously I want winners but I want them more for the horse than I do me...

Racing will be around a lot longer than I will so all I can hope is we can evolve as an industry for the better.

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Do you think it's fair trainers take a 50/50 split of open prize money when they show your horse?
Even though owners pay all the fees etc.

Forced head carriage... seeing as a large percentage of this occurrence happens in dressage horses where Rollkur runs rampant. I am wondering how long it will be before we begin to see the same happening to western performance horses ie Reining where Rollkur seems to be happening a lot more frequently due to the higher demands of the sport and larger pay outs (or maybe it already is and there is just a lack of autopsy)...

Interesting read... I would say probably even add a bit more given other trainers...

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How much are your trainers charging per month & what's included? Also how much per show // day fees?

There's a very interesting discussion happening in the Reining Breeders and Owners fb group.
First I'd like to say....
🙌✨ my hat is off for ALL of the assistant trainers and grooms during this time of the year. You guys are literally the backbone of any program yet receive the most stigmas thrown at you by owners and most everyone else in the industry...

Here was my response
I think the other thing of concern especially for this time of year is...

So you have all of these shows back to back. Some clients might want to go to one show while another may want to go to a different show...

So the trainer is now traveling to ALL of those shows.

Leaving 30+ horses at the barn.
So many people want to complain about assistants riding their horses... but nowadays they are truly carrying the majority of the work load especially this time of the year. If that assistant is at the show with them... then the 30+ horses are being cared for by the groom.

If this is the case you are paying training for these months still.... even though your horse isn't technically being "trained"

Then I saw some trainers post they were taking horses to the 100X show to be ridden even though they weren't even showing at that particular show... so the client who is normally paying the training fee now will also have to pay an extra fee because the trainer has to bring the horses with them to the show to continue riding? Even though they aren't showing...

So are they also charging you for that travel time as well?

To me that should still be included in the monthly training fee... you've already paid for..

I would also like to make note of how much of the work actually falls on the assistants and the grooms during these particular times they're the ones doing all the grunt work of driving back and forth horses to be swapped out etc after having worked 20hrs
They work their @$$ off just so the trainer can have all these horses in training.

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Zehn Reiter hatten sich für das Finale um den € 4000-added Working Ranch Horse Trail Open qualifiziert. Den Sieg trug schließlich Nadine Hartmann mit Talismanic Rooster davon – der Score: 153,5. Zweite wurde Jacqueline Büttner auf Smart Royal Vintage (151,5) vor Ingo Leduc und Luckylukesgottagun (145).
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Working Ranch Horse Trail Non Pro Champion: Annika Viecenz & Despacito Whiz

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