For anybody who has never seen one, a show horses retirement is quite an emotional thing for the audience. The horse is taken for one final ride around the arena, and then is unsaddled and blanketed, while his accomplishments are read. A farrier then pulls his front shoes( he won't need them anymore grazing in his paddock), which are kept as mementos and the noble animal is backed out of the arena during one final standing ovation.
Monday, November 24, 2008
For Jody--Aequus, the winningest park horse of the Arabian breed! 16 National Top Tens, 11 National Champions!!!
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Wade G. Burck
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Interesting...........
I'm not crazy about the way he moves behind. Guess they went back to only looking at the front end.
Good thing I wasn't judging...
I tried to find another youtube on him to watch him better than just that short clip. All I found was
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKV3LWdUzxA
Does he look sound to you behind?
Jody,
I have a difficult time judging/looking at the "new" Park horses. They all look like they are going different in the front and in the back. I have never decided if I like it or not. It is a bit like a young Arabian running free who hasn't learned to balance himself, and if he gets on the wrong lead, the back end will "scamper" out of sync. Makes you want to shake them, and tell them to "knock that off, you look stupid."
I do note that the back end goes more cadenced/slower on the Park horses, then the front end, so it must be how they are trained. Remember when Bask was considered a hot gun Park horse?
Wade
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