APHA Senior Western Pleasure-NWSS-Left

Taken at the National Western Stock Show January 2008.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• APHA
• Western
• Pleasure
• Paint

[MrFlashyPasser]

If I have time. I will see if I can video tape this same class again next month to see if things are anything different from four years ago. I no longer show paints and never did WP, so do not know how they are now.

[MrFlashyPasser]

Yes, this was taken at the Denver National Western Stock Show January 2008.

[HorsesForever1234]

OK!! Seriously if you dont understand it, please dont watch it!!! I am soo sick of everybody calling these horses lame and "western pleasure must not be very comfortable". If your sooo interested in it then try riding one, because its not as easy as it looks. You dont see us western pleasure people complaining about how those jumping or race horses go lame. If you dont understand it, LEAVE IT ALONE...

[shilodance1st]

@RickyNoiseux No horse that is free, easy, and comfortable carries its head that low. That is a fad, not the way any horse normally moves. What you call a horse "using himself" is actually a horse abusing himself to please its owner. No horse naturally carries its head that low.The horse's weight is carried in the forequarters, with the head being the heaviest part. The low head tilts the animal's center of gravity far to foward

[pitluver101]

@showpaints See i dont know much about western pleasure, although i do like to watch videos of it. Not sure whats good & whats bad. I just couldnt seem to figure out why all these people are being so vulgar and hostile... its just a video, everyone has a right to upload videos ya know?

[MsHorseStar]

I have a western pleasure paint although she also does english and she has a much more natural lope. Even though that is what I show I don't like how those horses look at the lope.

[showpaints]

@ConTamieNated Definitely not good examples of natural WP horses. Most of these are overtrained to a point of unnatural ugly movement. There are good WP horses, but until Judges stop pinning the unnatural broken looking ones, it will continue. By the way, Dressage has the same problem, alot of bad examples and few good. It happens in all disciplines sad to say.

[showpaints]

@pitluver101 I searched to see a good example of WP. Some of these horses so cocked to the inside that they are not even tracking right. Others using their heads to lift themselves & some so dang "collected" that they're too short strided & their front legs look a mess. Some appearing lame, but probably just bad training. You know any examples of good moving, lightly! collected on the front end with nice front leg, good propulsion in the rear? I will keep searching.

[GoldEyedNickCLover]

i'm in there!!!

[danielle1000ish]

I posted my comment before i seen the horse that does have some LIFE to it! Thank god there is one person out there working with what horses NATURALLY have!

[danielle1000ish]

I can only imagine what happens to these horses "behind the scenes"! I bought a horse and the owners talked about how they would put their horses in their arena over night in the dark if they misbehaived, and some of their horses, icludeing the one i purchased were on one-foot chains in their box stalls! She has had two years pasture rest with the occasional ride, and has gained weight and is all together a different horse.

[ArablvrXoXo]

KUDOS to the girl who has a horse in this video that can actually move!

[shilodance1st]

@TheCountrygal123 Getting them to go at unnatural gaits pretty much guarantees that they will end up with arthritis..