A thread for all you lovers of equestrian sports and horse racing

Sports?


Wrong section for horsey games.

Meh... thats my oppinion

Meh is a good opinion. I wish I had that as an opinion

No, equestrian stuff are sports. >_> Heh, my dad is big on horse racing, so I am as well. My mum's boyfriend doesn't like me that much because I can pick a winner better than him.

when i'm bored and blackjack isn't on, i'd watch the ponies race and jump and stuff. i feel so bad for their joints though...

If and when I ever get rich
would like to have a ranch where racehorses ect. can retire and just relax.

I was afraid of this after his last setback, I have worked with Horses.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,248194,00.html

Kentucky Derby Winner Barbaro Euthanized After Numerous Injuries
So sad.
I truly think he wanted to live and everything possible was done.
Bless his heart.
R.I.P.
One of my things I would like to do someday is to have a retirement ranch where race horses can come to live and goof off.

my sister does this kind of stuff.
i've never watched her, though.

Barbaro

Its quite an intresting sport, i dont mind it.

Aw, I love horse riding, I'd like to take part in some competitions but unfortunatly I haven't had an opportunity. And enough time to pracitce...

Yes,it´s very sad,but atleast he was not made to suffer to the very end - unlike humas,who in most case are not aloud to die with dignety.

horses terrify me.

I love horses. I want to work with military horses (Kings Troop) My dad and uncle are always laughing at me because my balance isn't the best so i keep falling off

Hey, why?

I loove watching Show Jumping.

it's so thrilling.

I think Im the only person on this board really into watching equestrian sports, especially horse racing. I just got done watching it now actually.

i ride horses, and i've been in some competions, but not many. like Morgaine I dont have that much time to practice, and I'm not that good now.

^ You've never said me you liked horse riding!! Or my memory sucks...

No you are not the only one, I watch them too.

YOU ARE SOOO, SOOOOOOOOO WRONG!

This is going to be my favorite thread

It's Derby Day!

http://www.kentuckyderby.com/2007/derby_contenders

I had street sense to win!

awesome!!
(I should have put money on it. ... )

Did you watch the finals in Las Vegas today?
I watched some of it, then company showed up.

Looking forward to the Preakness later today.

My gf loves anything to do with horses, lol.

^Does she ride horses?

fucking yay for frankie D!!
he kept going 'wheres the fucking champagne?' on live TV. hahaha. legend.

Congrats Rags to Riches!

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/horse/index

Girl Power!

Kentucky Oaks winner Rags to Riches showed the boys how it's done after becoming the first filly to win the $1 milliion Belmont Stakes in over 100 years.

Wow it was an exciting race.

I know!! Man that must have been one of my favorite Belmonts ever, except maybe when Empire Maker beat Funny Cide.

Nice ass, huh?




1.20 m

^Woah, is that you? Great pictures!
Hmm 1.20m... that's quite high. The highest I jumped was 1m...

Nice pics, you 2 look great.

Thanks the horse's name is Romero Flower

^Is it your horse?

No He's owned by Haparanda Ryttare- The local riding school.

He's beautiful. How old is he? Sorry for all those questions, I'm just curious, so maybe just write something more about him
Oh, and btw, for how long have you been riding horses?

He's born in 1998-imported from Flower Hill on Ireland. He came to haparanda in 2004.
I've been riding horses since i was six, and now i'm 16... soon 17. I go to a school called "Holmen" wich is a equestrian school. I've just started it, but I'll might change to music instead.

I'll write more about him later Off to the stable now!

great pics! he's beautiful. lucky you that you can take part in competitions when you haven't your own horse. here it's quite impossible.

Just want to say those pictures are amazing. The horse is so beautiful. You both look great!

^Haha Rita, when I saw that you posted in this thread I was like "Gosh, she used to do karate and she also rides horses, like me?!"


You definitely shouldn't!

^Nah. I've never even tried. But I love horses.

I do dressage and hunter jumper. Best time of my life.

If you come to Poland during Christmas, as you said, we'll go horse riding

Yesterday my sister fell of a horse and broke her arm. Haha and I always try to tell people that horse riding isn't really a dangerous sport.

I've been riding for 7 years now, and yes, horse riding is a sport! And by the way it's much harder than it looks. One of the main things in horse ridning (especially in dressage) is to make it look like the horse is doing the things it self, and the rider is just sitting there. When people walk up to me saying: ''Horse riding is not hard! It's the horse that's running around doing all the work!'' I usually reply them with: ''So, it's not hard to ride a bike up hill either?? It's the bike that's doing all the work?'' Also in dressage it's not JUST about making a horse running around. We want to make them do special things, in special ways, and often that takes a lot of hard work. And when a horse is moving it's actually hard to sit correct on it. We are not aloud to just sit there, we have to sit ina certan way to get good points.
Also, if horse riding is not a sport, why is it among the Olympic Games?
Hope I cleared somethings up for some people.

^Yay, welcome to another GDC member who likes horse riding!

Another sad day at the Kentucky Derby
I had a bad feeling before the race but didn't think it would be that bad.
Poor Horse.
At least they didn't let her suffer.

I missed the Derby again this year because of Prom, but I'm regretting that I just watched it after I got home.

Uhm... what happened? I think I missed something.