OT Horse agility - Page 1

 Okie

Cool! Thanks for sharing. It looks like a lot of fun and exercise for trainer and horse. I cannot imagine my quarter horses completing the course (well, it would take a lot of grain and maybe not even then), but my rocky mountain horses might be coaxed through it all. 

That almost looks like fun.
I don't know if I would consider it agility.
But It was interesting to watch,
Thanks.

  Those animals never cease to amaze me.   I don't imagine getting a horse to jump through a loop  is any easy feat either.  The first one is a beautiful horse.  Thanks for sharing, didn't know horse agility existed before now.
 

  Love your avatar Okie

Ever been to the Circus?
I had a horse jump over a gate with only a four by four opening,  with a beam across the top, gate was five feet off the ground.
She also crawled under this gate once three feet off the ground and four feet wide.
She just didn't like the stall.
She would jump, swim with me on her back and walk through a large drainage tile under the highway.
The trail was where the agility kicked in, I have been on horses who stumble and trip up.

Its still an interesting video.

Moons.

Did she do it on command?

She would kick on demand...lol   And rear up on command.
That came in handy more than once.
She was the only horse out of nine that would go in a trailer without using force..lol
One of those small, rickety trailers that bother some horses.
She would jump on command and off, if she wanted out, our fences would not hold her (cattle fence).
We found her on the steps one morning by the back door next to the dogs.
She could reach cloths sometimes from over the fence and pull sheets off the cloths line, I'm not sure why.
Anything for an apple, or to scratch her head, she was very social.
I sold her to a friend who rode her from Indiana to Illinois with a foal following behind, they had to swim the Wabash river because the attendant would not let them cross the toll bridge.
Some horses can be the devil while others are a joy.

I was being a toad.  I work with horses everyday, and you are  right, some are much easier than others.  I have  one that will bowl me over unless I open the stall door as wide as it will go, and I have others that will go through narrow doorways without a problem.

You must admit though, those folks put  alot  of time  into those  horses, some more than others obviously depending on the nature of their horse.  Gotta give them credit for that, same as for those that  take their dogs to Sch III.  I admire them, as I haven't done it yet!

I love my dogs, but I miss my horses.
It is a lot of time and work, but it is also a pleasure, at least sometimes.
This was my horse, the dogs belonged to the whole family, they all loved my mom the best..lol
At that time I spent every day with my horse.    We had nine at the time and they all needed attention daily, without it they became cantankerous!!!     If thats how you spell it...lol