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1 posted on 04/22/2024 5:32:46 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Saw one at some NJ beach back in the day.


2 posted on 04/22/2024 5:38:30 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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I will take sides in this. The horses appeared to love doing it. The same people who would be outraged by horse diving are outraged by horse racing.

And the horses DEFINITELY love to race against other horses.

Okay, I have taken “a side”!


3 posted on 04/22/2024 5:39:48 AM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: Red Badger

I love it. Would have loved to see it live.


4 posted on 04/22/2024 5:45:27 AM PDT by nwrep
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Nuttin New ....around 1757? Gen. Israel Putnam horsedived off a cliff near Whitehall, NY to escape some Indians.


8 posted on 04/22/2024 6:22:21 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 (Don't shoot until you see the whites of their lies)
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Yes, horses that launched themselves from 60-foot wooden scaffolding

From the photos it doesn't look like the horses "launched themselves" - it looks like the platform was collapsed underneath them and they had no choice in the matter.

9 posted on 04/22/2024 6:49:03 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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Glad I missed those years of horse diving. Oh wait, I arrived in 1949, but don’t remember any of that crazy stuff.


10 posted on 04/22/2024 7:13:33 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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http://www.lostparks.com/aquafair.html


11 posted on 04/22/2024 7:15:23 AM PDT by ameribbean expat (The object of life is...to avoid finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. -Aurelius)
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What’s the downhill horse race Indians do

That is hard on horse and rider

South Dakota maybe?


13 posted on 04/22/2024 7:22:40 AM PDT by wardaddy (. A disease in the public mind btw Alina Habba is fine as grits)
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Gone are the good old days where horses that wanted to dive could do so until some Karen decided they didn’t like seeing it. Poor horses had to live the rest of their miserable lives in a stall somewhere with nothing but fond memories of the past life.


14 posted on 04/22/2024 7:28:23 AM PDT by Bob434
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The Bizarre History of Horse Diving:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-W669Grs4s


22 posted on 04/22/2024 9:07:35 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of feelings, not thoughts.)
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All kinds of “death defying” diving was big during that time. Honestly I think stunt motorcycles did more to end it than anything else. Of course even that is going away.


26 posted on 04/22/2024 9:11:28 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: Red Badger

There was a movie about this not so long ago


29 posted on 04/22/2024 11:38:42 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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