Ellen Kettler & Ace of Spades AMERICAN EVENTING CHAMPiONSHIPS

Ellen & Ace of Spades riding Junior Training at the American Eventing Championships in Wayne Illinois at the Lamplight Equestrian Center. Footage provided by RNSVIDEOMEDIA.COM

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[logemmjames]

no now that i watched it again shes very off balance.. thats why thoe horse looked so uncomfortable

[logemmjames]

nice job ellen well ridden!!

[saylor4019]

Well since everyone else is commenting ill comment too. I say this horse is bucking cause the rider is pissing it off. But it is being a tad naughty too! tehe.

[Horsejumper737]

And lastly, even without these reasons, every horse is entitled to a bad day. It is unreasonable and demanding to expect them to preform perfectly at every show. Our jumping was double clean and we moved up seven places in a national competition so I'd say that shows how difficult it was.

[Horsejumper737]

O and about my back....I broke it and the muscles on the right side are torn. Ive been working on this as I recover from the injury but unfortunately these things take time. I have had 7 doctors work on me and have three different sets of physical therapy as well as regular doctor appointments. And my horse also sees a chiropractor and she says his back is great. Where he is tight is in the neck because he is built downhill.

[Horsejumper737]

wow I didn't know people would actually comment on this lol.

Ok.....well Ive had my horse for 4 seasons and he came to me after spending 6mo in a field and he had no eventing experience (he is also a QH with terrible confirmation). And also we live about 13hrs from where this show took place and he, for some reason, didn't ship well. He got really bad runny manure and was obviously uncomfortable. So after that we upped his gastrogaurd and we just competed in a classic 3 day with no bucking

[EquestrianPride16]

I am a good rider, and I have confidence in myself. I'm not going to be in any way insulted by you, so please stop. I have an excellent trainer who is teaching me a lot and I've been riding for nine years. Riding is my passion, I'm not a "little girl with too much time on my hands" I actually have an extremely busy and insane life and I DON'T have everything handed to me. Please stop being immature and ridiculous.

Oh, and learn how to spell ;)

[EquestrianPride16]

Okay,

You accuse me of being immature but you are really being immature by continuing this. We've never met and we will never meet, so there is no point in arguing over YouTube for Pete's sake. The video was not my best riding, and pettily insulting my riding to try and make yourself feel better is really stupid. I apologized to those I may have insulted and tried to end the conversation, but you being extremely immature continued insulting me for no reason whatsoever.

[bigredbarn12]

also

I don't think you've done that much with a chiropractor; you're only 14. it sounds like you're a little girl with too much time on her hands

If you've been riding dressage you're whole life then you should be more then a little worried about how much your stirrups always swing which has nothing to do with position.

Learn how to jump don't pump your elbows and quit hitting that poor horse on the back and mouth after every jump

get a trainer who is actually descent and tells you these things.

[bigredbarn12]

A. If that horses was the easiest horse you've ridden that must of meant you learned to ride on green broke nappy horses, great trainer? that's debatable.

B. You can clearly see in the point you were refrencing that is the one time her horse is not bucking. The horse seems to be bucking when she is asking for more bend around the circles which is consistant with stomach pain.

C. False I do know how much her horse cost and I do know that she trained it.