Good for you for explaining. Remember the saying? "There's something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man." The ones that are uneducated about horses and spout off, stay uneducated and should stay away from horses.
I have never understood why people who know nothing at all about a subject feel compelled to spout off about it.
I've never understood why when someone voices an opinion different then some one elses, on a forum such as this, people have to get insulting.....
he show horse is the best kept, best fed, best cared for animal other than maybe some elderly widow's poodle.
I disagree with this. Most of the "high quality" show horses I've been around are kept in stalls, so their coats won't fade. They very seldom get turned out with other horses because the owner doesn't want any dings on them. The poor creature may LOOK good, but they very seldom get to be a horse.
Most large show stables have their vet set up on a weekly farm visit schedule.
I agree, horses that are stalled so much usually have a variety of health issues.
Most show jumpers that go lame would have done so anyway from genetic reasons, such as navicular or arthritis related problems.
That's a debatable issue. The vet I use say that vets are figuring out that most of these horses that come up with these laming problems are because the horses are never in condition to do what is being asked of them.
But show jumping is the movie star life of the horse world.
That's opinion.
Becky