I believe your horse might have a rearing problem...

[idegafaa]

I saw this recently and thought it was a very good example of someone being a 'passenger' on a horse. I'd imagine this is one hell of a dominant mare and she's certainly been and is being allowed to rear to get where and what she wants, I tend to think theres certainly a lot of; "Oh no, I don't want to go over there, i'll just rear, get a release

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[jaydrain]

As the owner and rider of a chronic rearer I guess I'll put in my 2 cents.

Can't really put the horse/rider at fault without knowing them and understanding their situation. Even though the title of the video says "raws" it's clearly not since it's been editted. She has picked and chosen what she wanted displayed to the public so it's not like you can attribute one clear cause to the horse's behavior. From what I see the horse is at a show and in the warm up ring. Don't really know if the horse is having a breakdown from the stimulus of the show environment or is simply just bullying the girl as it would normally do at home. Either way, the horse has put her in a difficult situation. She has to release when the horse comes up and then collect her reins again on landing. Obviously if she didn't the horse could break the reins or flip backward onto her. Horses that rear up with that much force will easily rip the reins from your hands and I have torn apart my gloves and broken my reins before in such a situation. It's a nasty cycle but you have to do what you can to keep you and your horse safe. What I see that she is doing correctly is getting the horse forward and patting and rewarding the horse when she does go about quietly. Although the horse is still being a pill she gets the horse to canter and jump (she gets left behind a bit since 1. She's forced to ride in defensive seat and 2. Dealing with a rearer complete with show nerves is DEAD tiring). If this girl were simply being a passenger she would've never gotten the horse to go forward like she did which is the hardest part of breaking a rearer out of the vicious cycle.

When my guy goes to shows he completely loses it in the warmup ring and explodes into a rearing tantrum. People will go "Oh my gawd that horse is rearing!" and just assume that my horse is some maniacal psycho trying to throw his rider and I'm some stupid rider who doesn't know what she's doing. He can't really handle the stimuli of a busy show environment and doesn't know how else to channel his energy than by rearing. People don't understand this. The only thing I can do is to keep him out of the way of other horses and people, ride out his rears, and press him forward and reward him when he stops. Even if I keep my cool and stay calm his rearing can also be exacerbated by other people freaking out and reacting to him...which really sucks and annoys the hell outta me. My horse has been rearing all his life way before I ever had him. Everything I do with him must be tactful and meticulously thought out if I wish to set him up for success and ensure my safety, his safety, and the safety of other people and horses. He's not a horse you can just get on, warm up, compete in the ring, then come home with a ribbon. I've been there done that on horses you could do that with and quite honestly I don't really find it all that rewarding. Then again I'm just young, dumb, and crazy.

Unless this girl editted out herself giving conflicting aids causing the horse's reaction I would not consider the show video bad_riding.
However, the "sacking out" video and riding without a helmet on a known bucker/rearer are bad_riding worthy.

[monica1979]

Yes, because screaming and freaking out when a horse is nervous or throwing a tantrum is ALWAYS helpful *facepalm*

The horse I am leasing now used to be a rearer when he arrived at the barn. Spurs and whips only made him more prone to freak out, hell he'd have to to be ridden on a loose rein so he wouldn't get nervous. And when he didn't try to rear, he would bolt. Going up or taking off was his answer to anything that made him uncomfortable. He's settled down quite a bit, which is good, because I don't honestly know if I'm a competent enough rider to handle a rearer. So basically I'm trying to say that I agree with you when you say it's difficult to know why a horse rears without knowing the whole story. However, from watching the other videos I think this girl seems to be more interested in showing off than in working on this problem. And the sacking out video... well that just made m want to bitch slap her.

Btw, kudos to you for sticking with chronic rearer.

[idegafaa]

I'm a youtube stalker myself, I know a few of these 'big youtubers' pretty well, let's just say she's one of those 'famous horsey youtubers' for all the wrong reasons, her main (teenage girl super overdone edited videos channel) is SillyFreckles and from memory I believe she can't afford lessons, never finished school, drinks, smokes, doesn't have a job, never has had a lesson in her life, has been about to sell this horse TWICE for an apparent ridiculous amount (The person who told me said it was $25,000) and now can no longer afford the agistment, so in other words you get the feel that she has no idea what she's doing (riding and everything else.) I believe last year sometime she put down her horse and filmed it and put it on youtube. Then got this new horse and it became a serious rearer, apparently at the moment she's teaching it to rear on command so that it stops rearing by itself.

Then yep, in the summertime she rides both horses (her other being a bucker at times), bareback, barefoot, helmetless and in shorts, sometimes also riding her bucker tackless. Videos:
http://youtu.be/b0X0_ohzTVo

http://youtu.be/RmwUBOe5-JM

http://youtu.be/3srrPFRmIkw

I just didn't use them as I thought the riding was worse in this show one and I tend to think unsafe_riding & bad_riding are different things + all her others are freakin' packed with effects.

I'm really surprised she hasn't been featured on here before, she does the stupidest 'stunts' http://youtu.be/JuHgV1G64bo

A friend of mine has an obsession with her for the past year and blabs about her all the time, I decided to take a look for myself and....yeah...I wasn't too impressed..

[maenads_dance]

I have heard "teach your dog to bark on command so you can tell him to stop." I have never heard of teaching a horse to rear on command so that it'll stop!

[nuclearsex]

apparently at the moment she's teaching it to rear on command so that it stops rearing by itself.

hahahaha.