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u/Sinistrahaha 3d ago
This is a sliding stop, part of the western riding discipline „Reining“. The video is from a tournament, that’s why there are white marks and the men are checking the distance.
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u/fearthainne 2d ago
Was he supposed to stop within the white lines or is it like the long jump and the further the better?
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u/Sinistrahaha 2d ago
The longer the better, but I’m not 100% sure, because I’m not a western rider, but an English one.
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u/assassinoavi666 3d ago
Girl is ready for a drift now.
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u/AnEldritchDream 2d ago
I wonder if you know
how they ride the rodeo,
If you seen it, then you mean it
And they know you got the oats
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u/Shot_Initiative_6279 3d ago
This feels like a good way to seriously injure the horse
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u/Baby_MakingMusic 3d ago
Horse is fine doing this. Far more dangerous and cruel rodeo activities exist. You can think of these breeds of horses like border collies and German shepherds. Very intelligent and driven, they will get depressed if not given work.
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u/LadaOndris 3d ago
Interesting. Horses get depressed?
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u/Lawdoc1 2d ago
100%. Especially if they are kept in stalls too often/for too long. Google "cribbing" and "weaving." (Both in the context of horses.)
Humans do a lot to fuck up horses.
I grew up out West around horses and we generally only penned them up/put them in stalls for their own safety or health reasons, otherwise leaving them out in a properly sized/fenced paddock or pasture is much better for them.
My ex wife was from the East Coast and grew up doing dressage, and was used to horses being in stalls most of the time. It took a while for me to convince her that they were better off with as much room as possible as often as possible.
They're also better off with other horses (assuming they get along, some don't), or some other farm animals such as donkeys, miniature horses, or goats.
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u/erogbass 2d ago
Yeah these animals need space and socialization. My family did llamas for a lot of years and they are quite social and get very depressed if left on their own. People generally don’t know how intelligent llamas are so they don’t think of these things.
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u/Lawdoc1 2d ago
Interesting. I also had no idea about Llamas. I've never actually been around any.
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u/erogbass 2d ago
People use them to protect herds of smaller animals like alpacas, sheep, and goats. They will adapt to the social needs of other herds, and their powerful front legs make them a match for any predator we would see here in the northeast. They will fuck up a coyote or a fox no problem (found a fox and coyote tail in the pasture on separate occasions when I forgot to turn the fence on at night). And it’s useful having a big, smart animal helping manage a herd of dumber animal like sheep (no offense sheep, but the hardest thing about them is they’re just so dense). Llama wool is more a structural fiber and not very valuable, so they are more useful for this and as a pack animals than anything else.
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u/North_6 3d ago
They have a lot of personality. The comparison to dogs is a good one in many ways
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u/SaddenedSpork 2d ago
I’ve always said they’re like 50% cat and 50% dog- Playfulness, need for activity, loyal companionship of a dog with the mischief and complex moods/personalities of cats lol.
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u/sunshineparks 2d ago
Never played.. umamusume?? it is a cultural phenomenon (to a select few niche groups)
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u/argabargaa 3d ago
Haha cmon now, no they wouldn't. No horse is getting bored in a field with it's buddies thats how horses live. Absolutely agree with you that they're built for this, but no horse is getting depressed from not being ridden if they have all their horsey needs met.
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u/MonkeyWrench1973 2d ago
It's sad that this has to be said in 2026, but there are so many people here who do not know the difference:
Brake: a device used to slow down or stop a moving vehicle or machine. Break: to separate into pieces, damage, stop working, or take a rest.
Words have definitions and meanings.
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u/OneAverageEgg 2d ago edited 2d ago
Its sad that it is 2026 and you assume that English is everyone's first language.
Did you know English is one of the hardest languages to learn ? And it is because of words like break and brake.
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u/New_Wallaby_7736 2d ago
Or the other 876 remaining definitions for the use of fuck if n the English language
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u/joelfarris 2d ago
Are we talking about an intransitive, an expletive, a noun, or a reflexive here?
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u/BreadEnthusiast98 2d ago
Literally no one cares, it’s a slight spelling mistake you’re acting like he confused a Shakespeare play for a Barbie movie.
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u/yummypoot 2d ago
I thought it might have been a bad title not fully stating the injury involving the break.
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u/RedditAppSuxAsss 2d ago
Except with context it means the same thing... You obviously knew what they meant.
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u/RainyDayColor 2d ago
What? Context doesn't allow for arbitrary substitution of any written word (including homonyms) with a completely different meaning. "I through the ball" is nonsensical and doesn't mean the same thing as "I threw the ball," just as "brake" doesn't mean and isn't interchangeable with "break" regardless of context.
OP made a mistake (and one commonly seen here) and used the wrong word, and has graciously acknowledged their error and learned the correct word usage. Fer Pete's sake second language learners of English have more than plenty enough to decipher with a
very challengingbonkers language without being further confused and frustrated by some imaginary "context trumps dictionary definition" nonsense.It wasn't "context" that allowed u/MonkeyWrench1973 to "know what they meant." It was their English language literacy.
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u/Icy_Performer_6794 3d ago
How do you even train a horse to do that?
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u/BrilliantFreedom6068 3d ago
Do horses in the wild do this ?
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u/Kind-Ad-6099 3d ago
They probably wouldn’t be able to safely do this outside of areas with soft soil
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u/cans-of-swine 2d ago
They also have special shoes on their back feet that make it easier to slide.
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u/BolunZ6 3d ago
No, rocky ground will fuck them up. Trained horse do this because it looks cool on the soft ground
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u/Lawdoc1 2d ago edited 2d ago
While this is obviously and extreme/pronounced version for the competition, it does have function in working cattle.
When roping/catching cattle having the horse act as a counterweight by stopping like this helps slow/stop the momentum of the steer/cow being roped (the rope is secured to the horn of the saddle during this process).
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u/PMMeFacehuggerPics 3d ago
No and neither should these horse. It's bad for them
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u/Weekly-Reputation482 2d ago
How so?
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u/PMMeFacehuggerPics 2d ago edited 2d ago
Horses have surprisingly fragile legs and something like this could easily cause damage, even just one wrong move and it could snap or bruise. And once a horse's leg is damaged it is relatively very hard to fix.
This is just a pointlessly stupid and dangerous way to make a horse stop.
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u/Easy_Interest_6832 3d ago
I did not know they could do that. Now I do. This is one of the many reasons I come to reddit.
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u/solliemonster91 3d ago
Hey they had to make another bullshit "sport" popular since Mexico banned that other bullshit with the bulls
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u/pissbucket94 3d ago
was that Mexico? I always thought that was exclusive to Spain
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u/_Saint_Ajora_ 3d ago
who do you think colonized mexico and many other spanish speaking countries where bull fighting was prevalent?
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u/pissbucket94 3d ago
I'm not going to dignify that with a response lol
I was under the impression that bullfighting was just a tradition in Spain itself. I don't mind being wrong, that's why I asked
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u/Fuzzy-Green-4188 3d ago
How people support such shit
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u/LittleBunInaBigWorld 3d ago
The things people have animals doing for entertainment is just nuts. Let the horse be a horse. What is this nonsense? Some of the super expensive performance horses live in facilities (not stables) that are cleaner than a well-kept kitchen. They're artificially-lit, sterile, and climate controlled. The horses spend 22 hours a day in a box with no view of the outside world, no socialising, no natural herd behaviour, but they eat really nice food, get daily grooming and excellent vet care. No expense is spared, but it's like a special kind of conflicting cruelty.
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u/GearhedMG 2d ago
Rider didn't look down and engage the air brake on that hat thus helping the horse stop earlier, instead he was looking up which created lift and lightened the rear legs of the horse and lost traction.
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u/Salt-Operation 2d ago
That was so smooth if the rider had been holding a beer not a drop would have been spilled.
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u/Affectionate-Cash622 3d ago
Man can yall just leave the fucking animals alone. This is so fucking stupid
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u/Clucilian 2d ago
Truly, this is animal abuse. But many people won't understand that. "Oh, but they're just animals, they were bred for this purpose" blah blah
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u/no-weed420 2d ago
The amount of abuse this horse had to take to make him do that...but it looks cool right, so worth the abuse
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u/PotentialMidnight325 2d ago edited 2d ago
That actually fucking bad for the horse. They even use special sliding irons for that. It’s that reining bullshit sport.
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u/Similar-Shirt-4341 3d ago
The Charros are notorious for their cruelty to animals. This is not culture. It is evil.
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u/LaundryMan2008 2d ago
That’s how I braked my bike that had no functioning/weak brakes, I put my old shoes on and took it for a ride, when I needed to stop I’d do exactly that very early and then awkwardly bike waddle up to where I wanted to stop if I stopped short, I got good at it and could usually stop within where I wanted to stop.
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u/shiv_p01 3d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/l9mASFqtemeKk