For those of you who know "horses" and what it took to get this performance from a young 9-year-old horse, it will awe you. For those of you who don't, let me give you some inside dope.
Every move this horse is making is unnatural. It goes against every instinctive move it makes. It takes years of training to achieve this with a very "willing" animal. It takes an extraordinary amount of trust to achieve it through humane methods.
There are ways to do it through cruelty and torture. Tennessee Walkers used to be trained with chains around their front hooves that were tightened to the point where the horses would lift their feet to avoid walking on the painful chained hooves. It was eventually outlawed for various reasons. I'd like to think it was outlawed because we were kind-hearted.
Horse Sense is an old-fashioned term, but it applies to life more than you may ever realize. Getting a horse to act against its own best interests takes a great deal of love on the part of the rider and trust on the part of the horse. If the horse doesn't trust you and can't get over its fear of you -- well, let's just leave it at you'll be walking or finding another means of transportation.
You can "force" a horse to act against its own best interests through pain and suffering, but you will never, ever get a performance like the one in this UTube and you might lame it in the process.
This basic life lesson is brought to Americans with a lot of love for this country and FReepers, because I admire a spirited animal -- human or otherwise.
WOW! That made my Friday. Thanks!
I don’t know a great deal about horses but I know that they’re amazing, intelligent animals with a lot of personality.
When I was a teen I had a girlfriend who rode a horse all the time. Every time that horse spotted me it would make a bee line for me at a full gallop and slide to a stop nose to nose with me.
The girlfriend said that the first few times were a dominance establishment thing but once the horse decided that I was it’s equal it became a game of tag.
could you tell what the horses’ name was? Something Blu Marine?
Note the Austrian flag on the rider: Konnen sie, "Lipizzaner" sagen?
(Sorry, my keyboard doesn't support the "umlaut.")
I saw this some time ago. I is simply awesome. I was compelled to watch it over and over. Both are so proud and beautiful.