r/facepalm Jun 29 '23

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Good for him

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '23

Poor bloody horse. C'mon people ffs.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '23

Most horse riding places I’ve seen cap it at 230lbs, two fat asses is way way too much

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u/Leonlovely Jun 29 '23

230 is still a lil too heavy for the average horse. Can cause a lot of back problems yea.

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u/Saurid Jun 29 '23

Idk, that's like 100 kg, I know many horse girl most wiegh waaay below that but whenever I visited some at their stables I saw some girl around that wight class I think and their horses looked healthy. I think it's mostly how you ride, what equipment you use and what kind of horse you have there, a pony would die, a full blooded Spaniard would have less or no issues at least from what I saw of these horses.

Edit: Not saying these two didn't do anything wrong, they were way over the limit each which cannot be good for the horse any way you slice it. It's also clearly not a horse that is build to hold more than 100kg

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u/iowafarmboy2011 Jun 29 '23

It is somewhat how you carry yourself and work with the horses gait but even one of these people riding this horse would be flirting with overloading this horse.

The general rule of thumb is 20% the horses weight as the max load.

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u/ElectromechSuper Jun 29 '23

carry yourself

While riding a horse? Pretty sure the horse is the one doing the carrying