American Saddlebred Fine Harness Horse

Grand Cahmpion Fine Harness Saddlehorse at Parys Christmas Festival 2007

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Fine
• Harness
• Saddle
• Horse
• Parys

[wayupian]

Shame, old saartje5 is completly in the dark. Nothing will perform under pain. Put a thorn in your foot and see if you can walk. You just want attention to be noticed on youtube with your unfounded comments

[SaddlebredAddict]

how the hell is this abuse? its just a naturally high-stepping breed doing its thing and enjoying the show and attention it gets from showing. i see no cruelty here.

[KnightHawke01]

@wayupian Not always true. Just look at some of the methods used in Tennessee walking competitions. I know saddlebreds a truely a naturally showy horse and will lift high with some encouragement. But saying "nothin will perform under pain" is a load of crap. I've seen it first hand in western horses.

[Love2knowIT]

these horses are beautiful!...Ive had a black and white national show horse once...we did alot of saddleseat riding and he loved showing...he liked to show off

[SaddlebredAddict]

@Cyberg00se I think you're mixing saddlebreds up with walkers on the whole 'messing with their legs' issue. Saddlebreds are mostly trotting breeds, they step high naturally, they don't throw their legs out in front of them like the tennessee walkers. The only effect soring would have on them would be causing lameness. Also, in any shows, the horses are tested for signs of soring and if any are found they are disqualified and the sorer is sent to jail and fined (as it is after all, a felony)

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[cyberg00se]

They do step high and naturally throw their legs out. I knew a retired broodmare who long ago lost her girlish figure, but she didn't go from point A to point B without style and class. She was a grand old lady.

But the horses on the show circuit are treated like crap. Why not set the tail? Why not frak with the feet to make them step higher! And the judges reward this crap, which is why the saddlebred show world is worthless.

[cyberg00se]

@cybertiger25 And that's why I hate the Saddlebred show world, because the horses are great and deserve better than set tails and abused legs, and people screaming at them in the stands and other special techniques to fire them up before a class. The same goes for Arabians.

[SaddlebredAddict]

@wayupian AMEN!

[Hetman1974]

I think Hollywood starts should go back to riding carts and Saddlebreds, then we'll have a classier Stars (Unlike Ke$ha in a Clapped out 5.0) and it wil encourage the population to ride horse and cart. If we go back to Horse and Cart, and lose our dependance on foreign oil.

[Appaloosapinto]

@wayupian I agree that this is not cruelty, but what about circuses and Bick Lick TWHs?