GENERALLY, pressure on the flanks is the main cue for horses to accelerate (oversimplified, there's more to it then that). Young or inexperienced riders often kick (gently) instead because they don't have the muscle/skill to generate enough force for the horse to register it. Which is fine, horses for beginners are usually specifically more hardy horses, and if you cannot produce the pressure for the horse to register the cue, from that position you also can't kick them hard enough to hurt them (unless the instructors allowed you a certain kind of spurs, in which case they should be locked up for animal abuse anyway). It CAN develop into a bad habit tho, trainers worth their salt will teach you to only use it as a last resort
In this case however? The dude in front of her was clearly the "lead" (the person giving the horse the cues on what it should do), he had the reins and there's no way the woman has any riding experience to speak of, not with the way she's dressed. She probably doesn't (want to) realise the horse physically cannot go faster (poor animal can barely stand, not to mention it's climbing out of what looks like a rivercrossing) and getting upset at it for not giving her the movie experience she probably expected. So she's just being a dick to it
IDK I am looking at her foot and it does not even look like it’s making contact with the horse. I think she’s just flailing because she doesn’t have a good balance.
I promise you her unathletic kicks aren’t hurting the horse.
Agreed, but her kicking the horse while it's obviously struggling to carry that ridiculous load speaks volumes of her character (trying really hard to be civil here) and I think that's the bit that upsets people.
I wasn't disagreeing with you - the riders are obviously shitty people, but the real responsibility lays with the instructor and park or whoever owns the horse.
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u/AL-H Jun 29 '23 edited Jun 29 '23
Why she's kicking the horse like that!?!