Posted on 01/08/2012 12:30:15 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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They calling him Korean version of Cartman that priceless ROFL
I used to teach riding and I know the "uh-oh! I'm getting panicky here" look very well . . . his body language is very relaxed, seat deep and hands soft (although I don't like the one-handed style as it sets you up to sit crooked, and he is a little crooked (left side back).) When the panic is on, you can see the shoulders and elbows lock up, the arms flail helplessly, and the legs squeeze the saddle out from under the unfortunate like a banana out of a peel. Then they tip over.
I am an old hunt seat rider, so unless I'm actually riding dressage I sit much more forward at the canter than he is sitting, almost in two-point. He sits like one of the old time cavalry officers. Probably got his instruction from a military unit.
I do envy him that handsome horse - think it's a mare from the head and the expression.
Could be a TB, there's probably not a QH within 500 miles of North Korea (also, baby hasn't got near enough back for a QH).
I find from cruising around the interwebz that Kim Jong Il was quite the horseman -- here's a video of him galloping a smallish and very ugly-headed and big-butted horse with a bad temper (wringing its tail). Horse shows up about 30 seconds in. The boy could ride, and I suppose he made sure his son knew how also.
And here's the video from which the stills were taken. The kid actually can ride quite well -- and it's a mare.
Baby Kim at a nice collected canter I think a Thoroughbred, though a smallish one -- possibly a small Anglo-Arab. Dang nice horse, with spirit but a very sweet personality (look at her check out the camera and decide to behave).
I feel sorry for the horse AM
I kinda miss the day of President Reagan riding a horse LOL!
Reagan had a nice, easy seat on a horse. He did prefer to ride in a hunt seat saddle.
President and Mrs. Reagan on horseback
Reagan's mount is a white Arab stallion named El Alamein, who doesn't like being kept down to a trot but is being pretty nice about it. Mrs. Reagan is being a good sport, but you can tell she doesn't really like to ride and is nervous in the saddle. She's got a good, quiet old QH gelding, a perfect mount for a nervous rider, but she's still uneasy about the whole thing.
Oh No!!!! He’s going to be a “pointer” just like his father. ..hahahahahaha
What a show to try and make him seem credible and powerful to his people. But he sure can’t fool the world any more than his father did in his staged attempts to show he had any grey matter between his ears.
I'm so grateful to our Freeper guys who have an eye for such things...thanks soooo much!......I wouldn't know one from the other except Kim's stuff generally has layers and layers of paint on them. I saw that clearly on the trains and horns they blew to honor his father. Everything there is 50's like style......over five decades of paint and plaster to hide or cover up the decaying country. It's no wonder those who make it out go thru major culture shock.
Oh that was funny! Thanks for posting it...the guy did it good!
The Dukakis jokes write themselves don’t they.
Lets get rid of our mistake first, then deal with "Fat dumb and stupid."
Countdown until Zer0 leaves Office: 378 days as of January 8, 2012.
Late 40’s design. That is a PT-76 amphibious tank. And a sabot round would go through a half dozen or more.
I kinda feel sorry for the horse was being force to have Chia Chub ride on LOL!
Yeah that horse that President Reagan belong to Mexican President at the time I hear that horse “had lot of spirit” one of SS agent mention that same horse beat up other horse at ranch even SS agent said I don’t know what we could do with this horse Mr President
Reagan said leave it to me he “train” that horse
Thanks for the reply and the insights. I never considered that THIS horse might be a mare....and I thought it odd that Berringer’s mount was a mare, but she was a darn good one. I’m over the hill and headin’ down the other side now, but I used to ride Cutting Horses.
You’re right about this new “Dear Leader” and his Old Man being pretty good horsemen. The horse DOES have a very smooth gait and appears easy to ride, but the video shows a horseman who, like you said, sits deep in the saddle and flows with his mount, with no bouncing or jiggling up and down. Thanks again.
Interesting picture, having him driving the vehicle instead of in the turret(in command) and then showing some difficulty entering.All the senior officers looking down on him,Outdated equipment?.
I’m sure I’ve seen on FR in the last few years comments about delivery of top of the line Armored vehicles and worry that this upgrading meant trouble.
So I just have a hunch that things may have changed in NK, more than we understand at the present time. Sorry in a rambling mood!
I prefer mares, they take care of me, and I've always been able to get on the good side of them. Many of the geldings I've ridden are kind of "Herp herp de derp" guys, nice enough but not real bright.
Away back in the early 60s, shortly after I accepted the Lord, I had the “good luck” to come under the guidance of an older, established Christian businessman, who just happened to be pretty well off, he became my mentor.
He had a small farm, 5 Quarter Horses, and an indoor 70 X 140 riding arena which he’d had custom-built, with a high arched roof like a quonset hut, with stables attached at the one end. He also kept a herd of about 15 feeder steers to use for cutting practice and to keep down the grass in the pasture. Among the QHs was a little sorrel stallion.
As I understand it, one of the, if not THE Foundation Sire of Quarter Horses was a stud from the King Ranch in Texas, named KING. Well, that little stallion, on which I learned to SIT a cutting horse, and to cut cattle, had papers that read: Major Magnum, by Major King, by King. And talk about cow sense! That hoss really had it! My mentor bought Major Magnum and two cutting mares IN Texas. Thanks for the memories.
P.S. Back in those days the actor Robert Mitchum had a “ranch” somewhere in Maryland, of all places; and his son Bobby used to show some of THEIR Quarter Horses here in the east at shows where my mentor and I used to show a little.
But on his papers his name was "Going Limits". He was a Three Bars/Go Man Go colt, on the racing rather than the cutting horse side.
It's fair to say that King was prolific -
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