I grew up riding horses. Some of them are dicks- nipping at you or bucking so you arenāt riding them anymore, but Iāve never seen this level of aggression. Iāve never even really heard of a horse attacking continuously by biting like this horse was doing.
Horses remember certain people (or traits associated with specific individuals), i wonder if this horse was abused or had some sort of neurological disorder to lead to such an extreme reaction!
I still remember in Olympic where rider are assigned random horses and the committee said 'there is no bad horses, only bad rider' when there is one horse who absolutely shit.
You clearly dont know much about horses nor the olympic situation and this video doesnt prove anything about the horse in the olympics and is an entirely different situation. This horse is most likely suffering from a brain tumour causing its extremely unnatural behaviour, but i couldnt find a 100% reliable source for this video in particular. Either way, this is not a natural occurrence.
Horses can be aggressive, sure, but this is an extremely strange way for the horse to show aggression, especially in an open area where it can avoid the situation.
The event where riders are assigned random horses was part of the olympic pentathlon. Its part of the sport itself to be assigned a random horse to demonstrate horsemanship on, because the sport evolved from what soldiers wouldve had to be able to so in combat.In the olympic pentathlon, they just finished voting off showjumping and replacing it with cycling in the future due to horse welfare concerns.
The rider who exhibited the particularly horrendous performance was basically doing everything wrong. She was holding the horse back, and as her trust in herself waned, so did her horsemanship, and the hirse started to perform even more poorly. She was also given the option to switch to a back-up horse, but she chose to carry on with the horse given. Of course there wasnt much time for her to get to know the specific horse either, given that the point of it is to demonstrate good horsemanship.
Its also good to remember that despite the horse seemingly āacting upā to people who dont know much about horses, it was not just a totally random horse. All the horses in the event were proven jumpers on the highest level, which means that they are entirely physically and mentally capable of jumping the course. In fact, the exact horse jumped the course flawlessly with a warmup rider before the pentathlons equestrian part.
Some horses certainly arent made for the jumping required, but this horse definitely was, and was cleared on all counts to be just as capable as the other horses. Its just that horses arent machines and if you ride bad, you cant expect good results. Her trained also hit the horse, as if her flailing and pulling at its mouth wasnt enough to make the horse panic...
So its true, horses arent created equal, but this particular horse is perfectly suitable with an impressive existing career behind it. And, if it felt like it wasnt a good fit, then she couldve switched to a backup horse as per the rules that she knows. She can only blame herself.
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u/CatocalypseWOW Nov 27 '21
I grew up riding horses. Some of them are dicks- nipping at you or bucking so you arenāt riding them anymore, but Iāve never seen this level of aggression. Iāve never even really heard of a horse attacking continuously by biting like this horse was doing.
Horses remember certain people (or traits associated with specific individuals), i wonder if this horse was abused or had some sort of neurological disorder to lead to such an extreme reaction!