IW stole my sentence. Evil minds work alike.
I think the mare was very nice. The rider was not that bad as many are who produce horses for sale.You should see some Austrian clips. (
www.obora.com)
He did not pull her head and the movement of the hand was more upwards/forwards to maybe help the tendency to release the tension/ not to let the mare to curl behind? (I watched it earlier but had time to reply just now,so cannot remember exactly.)
We have not sat on the horse so we dont know how unconfortable she is to sit on. As half of the members here has back problems,its very possible that this rider had also.As IW kindly suggested.
To tell you the truth,I read the replies first and was waiting to see something much much more worse. They are not classical riders and now-a-days five year olds need to compete already on high level to be sold with a reasonable money. They are propably just trying to make the hay bill.
But if you CANT sit, for whatever reason - should you? I dont think its actually fair to bob/bang around on a horse (especially a young one like that) if it looks s**te, its got to feel bloody awful hasnt it. What benefit could that possibly have for the horse?
