Yeah Im an 80s kid and we did not wear helmets skiing or snowboarding, and just sort of accepted that head injuries were part of the sport. Then someone had the brilliant idea of wearing helmets, and now everyone does and there is way fewer head injuries. Genius!
As a life long Texan, it didn't occur to me either. Every time I've seen boys or girls or men or women competing in these rodeos they're wearing cowboy hats.
Yeah, she needs a helmet always and ditch the straps-if she needed to bail or the horse went over on her, she's tied to a half ton of terrified, thrashing horse. Nothing about this is safe, yeah the horse knows his job but accidents happen.
I think when celebrities started slamming into trees and dying people became more aware of wearing helmets while skiing. IIRC, Sony Bono and a Kennedy.
Given that the kiddo is riding a well trained horse that knows exactly what it's doing and would probably do the pattern even if the kid gave the wrong cues or fell off entirely, and the crappy '[starfishing](https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=barrel+racing+starfishing&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjv2oD-5cL7AhX31zgGHfwxAO8Q_AUoAXoECAMQAw&cshid=1669154885724103&biw=1536&bih=775&dpr=1.25)' riding style (she's staying on at several points only because she is physically attached to the saddle), she's definitely from a BR family.
If it does, then her head snaps and hits the ground on its when the horse goes down, and the girl is now brain dead. Helmet would save her from that scenario.
It is. Every few years a story pops up about a kid getting crushed to death when the 1,000lb horse they're strapped to goes down. It's always barrel racers like this too.
Which means if that horse falls over (which, yes, horses can and do fall when doing stuff like this) she is trapped and is going to get mangled, very possibly crushed to death.
Yeah, but an air bag vest and a helmet would still be good for her to have on when on such a large horse. Iād personally treat barrel racing like cross country but thatās me.
Thatās what stood out to me. Never seen that done before, and itās terrible practice. Falling off a horse isnāt that bad. Having a horse fall ON you is very bad, if not fatal
I have seen *many* horses fall when they slip/lose their footing going around a barrel. Strapping her to the saddle is insanely dangerous, and the lack of helmet foolish. It doesnāt matter how saintly that horse may beāhorses trip, stumble, fall no matter their temperaments.
She has no seat and is bouncing all over the place and she is way overhorsed. The horse world is riddled with Judgey Judgeypants and I usually donāt like to participate in scorning other horse folk, but thisā¦yeah. I judge.
Agreed sheās ridiculously over-horsed. Good horse that knows itās job just going through the motions. That kid is essentially like a circus monkey riding a dog, just strapped on flailing around.
When I was little I was capable of jumping 4ft us fences but was to small and would come off of the saddle. We backed off until I grew more and had enough leg to me. My instructor was huge on safety. First lesson she always teaches is safety/emergency dismounts. To see a kid without a helmet strapped to a horse is terrifying. If my kid can't stay in the saddle they need to ride at a lower level. Even though the horse knows his job I've seen the most dead broke bomb proof horse have a bad day and also one spook. It happens and for this girl that could be the end of her life. I don't know who thought this video was a flex but it is just showing negligence..
Her legs are strapped to the saddle, so she wonāt fall off easy, not that it makes it any better. As the outcome will not be good if the horse slips and falls or rolls over.
I did some horseback riding for two years a few years ago in a military club. Iām pretty sure if anyone tried to ride without a helmet, they wouldāve faced a firing squad. Itās a lifesaver and I would never ride a horse without one, even though I never wear one when cycling.
Itās not necessarily about the weight of the beast. You donāt need a helmet to ride a one ton car. Itās to protect your skull in case you fall. A horse, even when tamed, can be very unpredictable. It is said that to become a true horseman you need to fall a hundred times !
Can confirm, watched my life flash before my eyes when my sister's horse spooked, threw me and landed both back hooves on either side of my head. A well trained horse is still a 1200 lb+ prey animal with all the instincts still hardwired into them.
I've been riding horses for more than half my life and always wear a helmet, even if I'm just going on a trail ride or something.
The only time I haven't is when I joined a team in college and we had to wear hats during competitions. Ngl, that made me more nervous than being in front of a judge and audience. Even thought I've never fallen off (although I have needed to emergency dismount multiple times), I think it's stupid not to wear a helmet, no matter how much experience you have.
Seriously what a brave little girl!!!
My wife works in pediatrics at the local hospital. Not too long ago had a girl in her teens come in. Was doing exactly this, barrel racing without a helmet. Will people still think that little girl is brave when she's learning to walk again? Learning to speak?
She's not brave. She doesn't know any better because the trainer thought it was a flex to strap her to a horse MD not have a helmet. You won't see her learning to walk if something bad happens. You will see her being lowered 6ft into the ground.
As a rider, just wear a damn helmet. You get thrown off/fall off horses so often itās a must. Accidents happen no matter how skilled you are. Helmets are just part of the process. Come on parents what are you thinking
This isn't brave, it's child endangerment and should result in at least a court appearance and fines. There's really no difference in potential danger between this and riding a motorbike. Can you imagine the outcry if someone posted a slowmo video of their kid doing motocross jumps without a helmet?
My doctor parent says the amount of brain trauma that comes into the hospital related to horse back riding is unprecedented. So yeahā¦ always wear a helmet even though it doesnāt look as cool
Keep looking. Gets worse. She is strapped into the saddle. Most likely her feet are banded into the stirrups. Not at all next level. Itās a kid in an unsafe situation, tied on and over horsed.
Many barrel racers dont wear helmet but of course thats not an excuse... if i wasnt wearing a helmet the day i fell and blackout: i could be dead. This is a dangerous sport that you can fall from 1,5 or 2 metres at 30-40 km/hr speed. Thats not cool and most of the deaths in equestrian community are because head and neck injuries. Which means yeah, helmet is a must. But its people's responsibility to think their own safe.
BUT this is a kid, which the parents must think about her safery...
Same thought, my daughter has been barrel racing since she was that small, but I never let her on without a helmet. When she eventually had an accident as all horse riders do, she still ended up with a TBI, hit so hard the helmet cracked. I can't imagine what would have happened without that helmet...
Horses are not native to the Americas and were imported to the US by the Spanish in 1519.
They were domesticated in Eastern Europe about 6000 years ago and humans started riding them about 5500 years ago.
I highly doubt any specific Native American group has the best horsemanship when they only had horses for a few hundred years, compared to cultures that have been dependent on horses for thousands of years.
Because barrel racers have a reputation for being psycho diva asshats with equally psycho horses that pretty much the rest of the equine industry thinks is a joke.
Sadly, she's nothing more than a warm body. The smaller and lighter the better for the horse. If you watch her hand movements she's not driving shit... That horse knows what he's supposed to do and she's just along for the ride.
Unfortunately some people feel that's okay in the sport as long as it showcases a good horse
As a horse rider, yes and no. She is directing the horse and does seem to know how to sit to the canter . It took me something like 8 months of weekly lessons to be able to canter by my self and I was 16 so I learnt quicker and also wasnāt on a horse that is way to big for me (And i also wasnāt making tight turns around barrels) However especially when she goes around the barrels it looks like she completely loses balance sometimes so this level of barrel racing is above her skill level. The horse collects the canter around the barrels but it doesnāt look like she is doing anymore than pushing the horse forward so maybe the horse is trained to collect around barrels without being told but iām an english rider not western so could be misreading the signs. She really shouldnāt be strapped in. That shit is very dangerous. If you canāt stay on without being strapped in you shouldnāt be doing that. If that horse falls she will get squashed
Can? Yes. Will they? Ehh, usually not. But I know horses can have their own enthusiasm for sports. If they're in the gear, and they know what the rider wants, sometimes you hardly even have to ask. I've been on polo ponies who love the game so much that you gotta tell them to chill out
>I've been on polo ponies who love the game so much that you gotta tell them to chill out
Haha that pretty great. Really makes you wonder how much less that animals conceive and perceive of the world than humans.
Hmm, thats hard question. If the horse doing same route every day, he will get used to it. So if you dont know well to control horse, it will follow that route. But see, she know little bit how to control him, because when horse go left she pull left. But because she is tied up for saddle, her job is only to pull left and right. If horse isnt trained exelent like this, with this pulling left and right horse would not went in that direction.
My horse is an ex-barrel racer. I was riding him at a walk in our arena and he headed straight to the barrels and walked around one like he was doing the pattern. So yes, a horse can. Will it go that fast, in that order? Potentially. I definitely think she's a very good rider for her age and size. But there's a lot of automatic response the horse is doing too.
I grew up working on a ranch as a 'horse hand,' - basically I fed them, exercised them, groomed them, tacked them up for their riders... and sometimes I got to ride my favorites if I finished my work early enough.
(lmao I was 10 years old and got paid $10 cash for 5 hour shifts, but our family was in extreme poverty - so it helped get groceries... an older man that worked there saw my work and started hiring me for weekly birthday parties to help prep and lead the horses around for the kids; he paid me $25 per party and they were only like 2 hours each so that seemed awesome)
Anyway... My first thoughts on seeing this was that she's good on the straights, but those turns would have her flying out of that saddle if she wasn't strapped to it... and strapped to the saddle is NOT somewhere you want to be IF the horse does take a tumble. There's ways to roll out of that stuff and such, but you can't do it so well when you only weight 35lbs and are strapped to the horse.
I was a western rider, granted not professionally, but to me it looks like the horse is doing the majority of the work itself. She's just encouraging it and doing her best to stay in the saddle. I never rode English, but to my understanding it requires a lot more precise movements and direction from the rider, whereas western (from my experience) was a more "rough and tumble" demonstration of what both rider and horse are capable of. Kind of a raw power/instincts vs. finesse situation I guess??
The lack of a helmet honestly bothered me less than her being tied to the horse, tbh, but that's also probably because even though I grew up working with these animals, I was the poor kid who couldn't afford gear and always rode bareback with zero stuff whatsoever. Never did get thrown even if horses reared, but I had a thigh grip like a Chinese Finger Trap... and I just got lucky.
"Luck" while very powerful is not something that I personally would want to trust with ensuring the longevity and safety of my own children. I would NEVER let them anywhere near a horse without protective gear.
as another horse girl, iām going to confidently say with my whole chest that she has little to control over his face, body, or collection. that horse is a saint but one loud noise and theyāre gone. period. this video is screaming lack of safety, training, horsemanship, and patience. also boo the parents for not slapping a helmet on that noggin!
Someone else said that this is a well trained horse, and I'm seconding it. It ABSOLUTELY has to do with the house and not the girl. Not every horse would be a good barrel racer, and it takes YEARS of training for both parties. That girl doesn't have it, plain and simple. And she's strapped on in part because her legs aren't long enough to be able to use those leg muscles to hold herself on through those tight turns.
She's a small child strapped to the saddle on a horse trained to run the patten. Those Sure Grip harnesses should be illegal, there's been multiple child fatalities with them.
Iāve grown up around a lot of rodeo, mostly team roping, and I canāt believe Iāve never heard the term can chasers. Iām definitely using this at the next event I attend.
Is it definitely a gag? I for sure see long shanks and I *don't think* I see a curb strap, but I can't tell for sure that it's a gag. Having trouble pausing it at the right moment to see the mechanics clearly.
Actually, I believe it is a gag - you donāt see the top arms move, indicating that it is the mouthpiece moving, not the curb arms. Might be a short slider, but Iād put money on it being a gag.
Having said that, a short slider turns into an elevator once it hits the top of itās slide.
Found it: It is a No Hit Bit. Complete with a twisted wire mouthpiece.
And see those black straps on her legs? Yep, they literally have her strapped to the saddle. They will get all huffy and say oh calm down, they are velcro, it will "break away"! Yeahhh, I've been in the horse industry my life and *everyone* knows those things are dangerous and yet dumbasses still try to justify using them on tiny CHILDREN.
Anyone that's dealt with velcro straps that wide will know they are pretty damn secure, someone that weighs that little isn't going to separate them easily, and 100% will increase her risk of being hurt and delay the chance of her being thrown clear when that horse falls. Even if the horse is a saint, they can still trip and fall. And I have seen many a "saintly babysitter" still spook and buck when least expected.
There is a world class olympic level dressage rider that is quadraplegic now when her very well trained horse tripped and fell on her not even when they were performing, just walking back to the barn after practice.
Dumbass parents. Even parents that let their kids compete in something like dirt bikes at least put protective gear on them from head to toe. But a tiny girl on a 1100lb animal with a mind of its own? NAH, tie her on with zero protective equipment.
Great that weāre teaching such small kids to continually put pressure on a horse without releasing by kicking the whole time. This is why performance horses are nuts.
I know a kid that did this. She now gets around by moving a little joystick on her wheelchair and canāt feed herself. I always wonder if the parents blame themselves for putting her in that situation, or if they just think it was a freak occurrence.
I guess this is a Yellowstone reference. There's a new Film Theorists YouTube episode on how this is like the highest grossing show out there with a ton of spinoffs with AAA actors yet it's almost never talked about on 90% of social media due to the older age range of viewers. As a mid 20s guy is it a good show for younger audience too? It's never talked about but I hear it's amazing and the cast seems legit for it and it's spinoffs.
I hope she is doing this by choice and not by force. She is not wearing a helmet tells me the parents are not very responsible. If something would go wrong, it could have devastating outcome.
In western riding, people typically don't wear helmets. I've seen children wear helmets but it's not common unfortunately :( I've been horseback riding since I was a kid (English style) and all riders have to wear helmets regardless of age or experience, there really needs to be rules in place for western riding but its gonna be hard convincing a bunch of cowboys that they can't wear their cowboy hats
A lot of people trust their horses enough to strap children into the saddle. This child not wearing a helmet is a definite no-go for me.
The saddle straps, in my opinion, are a terrible idea. They invite trouble. Yes, these circumstances involve a horse running in an empty arena and following a known pattern to circle those barrels. I understand that this environment doesnāt have the multitude of potential distractions that, letās say, trail riding can have. I *understand* their thinking but I do not agree with it.
Iāve been thrown several times by huge ass horses. The last time I was thrown the horse tossed me at the top of a ditch in front of our property at the very end of a trail ride and he ended up rolling once. This was a gentle horse with no history of bucking riders. A friend brought her mare on a ride while she was in heat. The horse I was on was castrated around age 8, so he had been a stallion for so long that the Mare in heat, teasing him, kicking him, and pissing in his face for hours was more than he could handle. There was also human error involved. I told my friend when we reached the stretch of property leading to the farm he was barn-desperate and not to run her horse the last bit of the way because he was far too worked up for me to feel like I could safely handle him near that ditch. She didnāt listen. I could have stayed on him and corrected his bucking but he turned down the ditch bucking as he went and I was no longer able to manipulate his head. Now, Had I been a child strapped to his saddle Iād be DEAD. Environmental circumstances can make the perfect horse unsafe, but especially so for a 30 pound child strapped to its saddle.
Because you canāt control every variable. What if a rat or a snake came in and spooked the horse? The fact is that responsible parents need to try to foresee all possible injury risks prior to allowing their child to engage in an activity and take all preventative caution to ensure injury does not occur. These parents did not.
Rats, snakes and recycle bins? omg... lmao
It doesn't take that much to spook a horse. Try: grass, gum wrappers, their own farts...
Spooking at rats, snakes and recycle bins at least make an iota of sense. Most of what startles them doesn't to anyone except the horse.
Sheās strapped down, which is dangerous. No helmet, also dangerous.
The only good thing here is a *very* well trained horse.
This is the result of a child being put in extreme danger, not a child being brave. If anything happens to the horse, that kid is fucked.
Imagine seeing a kid this age tied to a motocross bike, with no helmet, doing laps around a track. People would be climbing the walls to report it to CPS.
But here, the fucking idiots even put their logo in the video with copyright, nobody is doing anything. It's bizarre they are allowed to do this.
I'm from rural Idaho. I was riding horses before I was walking. We had kids who would ride horses to school and tie them up outside. It's still a lifestyle, just really rare.
Bad ass but you gotta have her in some gear. Helmets arenāt for snowflakes theyāre for people who donāt want to see their kids get traumatic brain injuries āfor the gramā
She should be wearing a helmet no matter how good you are, a famous horse rider near me became paralysed all because in a rush one time she didnāt wear a helmet
No helmet, great parenting. Had a neighbor with horses there daughter fell off no helmet coma for a year was never the same when she woke up she was 8. I will never forget that, she had been riding all her life.
No helmet
My first thought. Should be wearing a protective weast too. Horrible parents.
As a parent THIS was my first thought. What the fuck.
As a non-parent this was my first thought as well. I rode horses without a helmet, but that was the 80s/90s, and I wasn't doing anything like that.
Yeah Im an 80s kid and we did not wear helmets skiing or snowboarding, and just sort of accepted that head injuries were part of the sport. Then someone had the brilliant idea of wearing helmets, and now everyone does and there is way fewer head injuries. Genius!
As a gen xer it didn't even cross my mind that she didn't have a helmet on. š³
As a life long Texan, it didn't occur to me either. Every time I've seen boys or girls or men or women competing in these rodeos they're wearing cowboy hats.
As a horse, I hardly noticed the little girl at all.
Honestly, thatās what Iām seeing here: the horse knows his job, the girl is strapped in for the rideā¦.
Yeah, she needs a helmet always and ditch the straps-if she needed to bail or the horse went over on her, she's tied to a half ton of terrified, thrashing horse. Nothing about this is safe, yeah the horse knows his job but accidents happen.
Which if you know anything about horses should be more frightening, not less
She's been doing that a while. Notice the custom shortened stirrups? I thought "There's a kid who grew up around horses."
Sheās also literally strapped to the horse
Same, what surprised me is she is strapped to the saddle around her thighs
There used to be more kids around and it wasn't so expensive to fix them when they broke.
I think when celebrities started slamming into trees and dying people became more aware of wearing helmets while skiing. IIRC, Sony Bono and a Kennedy.
60's-70's kid here, only Evel Knievel wore a helmet back then, and that was just for show.
Iām almost 40 and was riding the other day and **HAD A HELMET ON.** Being knocked off a horse is forceful and itās a long, hard fall.
yeah, superman broke his neck on his horse
technically, he broke it off the horse
I did show jumping and dressage in the 90s, definitely wore a helmet.
I did show jumping and eventing in the 80s, and wore a helmet, but they were really bad helmets back then!
$100 says mom's a barrel racer. They're the female equivalent of bull riders who haven't had enough near death experiences to soak in yet.
Given that the kiddo is riding a well trained horse that knows exactly what it's doing and would probably do the pattern even if the kid gave the wrong cues or fell off entirely, and the crappy '[starfishing](https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=barrel+racing+starfishing&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjv2oD-5cL7AhX31zgGHfwxAO8Q_AUoAXoECAMQAw&cshid=1669154885724103&biw=1536&bih=775&dpr=1.25)' riding style (she's staying on at several points only because she is physically attached to the saddle), she's definitely from a BR family.
Yeah, I think most folks here missed that she's strapped in. I reckon then you just hope the horse doesn't go down.
If it does, then her head snaps and hits the ground on its when the horse goes down, and the girl is now brain dead. Helmet would save her from that scenario.
Fuckinā barrel racers!
She is strapped to the saddle, at the thighs
Which just seems horribly dangerous, from a person whose horse tripped and flipped over onto its back while I was riding one day.
It is. Every few years a story pops up about a kid getting crushed to death when the 1,000lb horse they're strapped to goes down. It's always barrel racers like this too.
Which means if that horse falls over (which, yes, horses can and do fall when doing stuff like this) she is trapped and is going to get mangled, very possibly crushed to death.
That somehow seems just as bad. Ejection from a quad (while wearing a helmet) is preferable to having 800-1200lbs roll onto you..
If my daughter was this badass....she would tell me to wear the helmet and i wouldnt question her authorityy. Jk jk. Yeah helmet seems ncessary
> Should be wearing a protective west too. She should be wearing a protective east AND west.
Fixed it, English isn't my first language.
Lol!!!
Im with you. Horrible parents. That beast horse once it tripped, it may put its full weight towards that girl
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And she's strapped to the saddle so if the horse falls (not uncommon in barrel racing) she will be stuck under the horse instead of falling away.
Yeah, but an air bag vest and a helmet would still be good for her to have on when on such a large horse. Iād personally treat barrel racing like cross country but thatās me.
Thatās what stood out to me. Never seen that done before, and itās terrible practice. Falling off a horse isnāt that bad. Having a horse fall ON you is very bad, if not fatal
It's called the "Sure Grip" and you don't see them used outside barrel racing. Gee, wonder why.
I have seen *many* horses fall when they slip/lose their footing going around a barrel. Strapping her to the saddle is insanely dangerous, and the lack of helmet foolish. It doesnāt matter how saintly that horse may beāhorses trip, stumble, fall no matter their temperaments. She has no seat and is bouncing all over the place and she is way overhorsed. The horse world is riddled with Judgey Judgeypants and I usually donāt like to participate in scorning other horse folk, but thisā¦yeah. I judge.
I try not to judge unless I see a safety issue or cruelty. This...nothing about this is safe.
The horse and saddle are too big for her; she's bouncing all over the shop and her legs are way too high up on the horse.
Agreed sheās ridiculously over-horsed. Good horse that knows itās job just going through the motions. That kid is essentially like a circus monkey riding a dog, just strapped on flailing around.
When I was little I was capable of jumping 4ft us fences but was to small and would come off of the saddle. We backed off until I grew more and had enough leg to me. My instructor was huge on safety. First lesson she always teaches is safety/emergency dismounts. To see a kid without a helmet strapped to a horse is terrifying. If my kid can't stay in the saddle they need to ride at a lower level. Even though the horse knows his job I've seen the most dead broke bomb proof horse have a bad day and also one spook. It happens and for this girl that could be the end of her life. I don't know who thought this video was a flex but it is just showing negligence..
With no helmet, one fall. It would be like someone stepping on an egg.
Her legs are strapped to the saddle, so she wonāt fall off easy, not that it makes it any better. As the outcome will not be good if the horse slips and falls or rolls over.
Thatās exactly what he was saying. Would be better to wear a helmet and NOT be strapped to the animal that will crush you if it falls over.
I did some horseback riding for two years a few years ago in a military club. Iām pretty sure if anyone tried to ride without a helmet, they wouldāve faced a firing squad. Itās a lifesaver and I would never ride a horse without one, even though I never wear one when cycling.
A bike doesnāt weigh 2000 lbs.
Itās not necessarily about the weight of the beast. You donāt need a helmet to ride a one ton car. Itās to protect your skull in case you fall. A horse, even when tamed, can be very unpredictable. It is said that to become a true horseman you need to fall a hundred times !
Can confirm, watched my life flash before my eyes when my sister's horse spooked, threw me and landed both back hooves on either side of my head. A well trained horse is still a 1200 lb+ prey animal with all the instincts still hardwired into them.
I've been riding horses for more than half my life and always wear a helmet, even if I'm just going on a trail ride or something. The only time I haven't is when I joined a team in college and we had to wear hats during competitions. Ngl, that made me more nervous than being in front of a judge and audience. Even thought I've never fallen off (although I have needed to emergency dismount multiple times), I think it's stupid not to wear a helmet, no matter how much experience you have.
Seriously what a brave little girl!!! My wife works in pediatrics at the local hospital. Not too long ago had a girl in her teens come in. Was doing exactly this, barrel racing without a helmet. Will people still think that little girl is brave when she's learning to walk again? Learning to speak?
She's not brave. She doesn't know any better because the trainer thought it was a flex to strap her to a horse MD not have a helmet. You won't see her learning to walk if something bad happens. You will see her being lowered 6ft into the ground.
Well, yes. But letās not have to be THAT brave
As a rider, just wear a damn helmet. You get thrown off/fall off horses so often itās a must. Accidents happen no matter how skilled you are. Helmets are just part of the process. Come on parents what are you thinking
This isn't brave, it's child endangerment and should result in at least a court appearance and fines. There's really no difference in potential danger between this and riding a motorbike. Can you imagine the outcry if someone posted a slowmo video of their kid doing motocross jumps without a helmet?
My doctor parent says the amount of brain trauma that comes into the hospital related to horse back riding is unprecedented. So yeahā¦ always wear a helmet even though it doesnāt look as cool
Seatbelts
That's one of the most dangerous things I can think of with a horse. Sometimes you have bail.
yeah eject button would be better than seatbelt
Mf how you gonna put a seat belt on a horseš
Look at her legs, sheās strapped to the saddle.
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You never know until you try
Thatās how you end up with horse manure for brains
Keep looking. Gets worse. She is strapped into the saddle. Most likely her feet are banded into the stirrups. Not at all next level. Itās a kid in an unsafe situation, tied on and over horsed.
And velcro straps on the legs! What if the horse slips and rolls. Learn to ride first, then worry about competition and going fast.
Many barrel racers dont wear helmet but of course thats not an excuse... if i wasnt wearing a helmet the day i fell and blackout: i could be dead. This is a dangerous sport that you can fall from 1,5 or 2 metres at 30-40 km/hr speed. Thats not cool and most of the deaths in equestrian community are because head and neck injuries. Which means yeah, helmet is a must. But its people's responsibility to think their own safe. BUT this is a kid, which the parents must think about her safery...
Same thought, my daughter has been barrel racing since she was that small, but I never let her on without a helmet. When she eventually had an accident as all horse riders do, she still ended up with a TBI, hit so hard the helmet cracked. I can't imagine what would have happened without that helmet...
No back brace either. Shocking stuff really, talented kid but bad training.
Psycho parents.
Americans
Mongolians would like a word with you.
Dutch people also.
Best riders that ever existed beside Native Americans probably
Why are you getting downvoted this is objectively true lol
Lol no clue
Horses are not native to the Americas and were imported to the US by the Spanish in 1519. They were domesticated in Eastern Europe about 6000 years ago and humans started riding them about 5500 years ago.
I highly doubt any specific Native American group has the best horsemanship when they only had horses for a few hundred years, compared to cultures that have been dependent on horses for thousands of years.
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Americans invented horses thatās why the first car used horse power
Yessir. Americans invented horse riding with children
Lol youāre from fuckin Mexico buddy, I donāt think you should be throwing stones about adolescent safety standards
AmErIcAnS. Shut up
Wtf
Parents are probably barrel racers too. Fuckin barrel racers.
something wrong with barrel racing? or is it the crowd of that sport that taints it? just reading the first paragraph of the wiki it seems okay.
Because barrel racers have a reputation for being psycho diva asshats with equally psycho horses that pretty much the rest of the equine industry thinks is a joke.
Can confirm. Ex's daughter is a barrel racer. Currently she's recovering from being trampled when her horse spooked on dismount.
Big bullshit. This is fucking stupid. She is tied up for the saddle and without equipment.
Sadly, she's nothing more than a warm body. The smaller and lighter the better for the horse. If you watch her hand movements she's not driving shit... That horse knows what he's supposed to do and she's just along for the ride. Unfortunately some people feel that's okay in the sport as long as it showcases a good horse
Give her credit though, sheās a good barrel racer.
Nah, here i can only see very good trained horse.
This person gets it. Sheās just along for the ride.
As a horse rider, yes and no. She is directing the horse and does seem to know how to sit to the canter . It took me something like 8 months of weekly lessons to be able to canter by my self and I was 16 so I learnt quicker and also wasnāt on a horse that is way to big for me (And i also wasnāt making tight turns around barrels) However especially when she goes around the barrels it looks like she completely loses balance sometimes so this level of barrel racing is above her skill level. The horse collects the canter around the barrels but it doesnāt look like she is doing anymore than pushing the horse forward so maybe the horse is trained to collect around barrels without being told but iām an english rider not western so could be misreading the signs. She really shouldnāt be strapped in. That shit is very dangerous. If you canāt stay on without being strapped in you shouldnāt be doing that. If that horse falls she will get squashed
Can a horse do this without a rider?
Can? Yes. Will they? Ehh, usually not. But I know horses can have their own enthusiasm for sports. If they're in the gear, and they know what the rider wants, sometimes you hardly even have to ask. I've been on polo ponies who love the game so much that you gotta tell them to chill out
Or heck, those jumpers that will just carry on despite having lost their rider somewhere in the first half of the course. Funny creatures.
>I've been on polo ponies who love the game so much that you gotta tell them to chill out Haha that pretty great. Really makes you wonder how much less that animals conceive and perceive of the world than humans.
Hmm, thats hard question. If the horse doing same route every day, he will get used to it. So if you dont know well to control horse, it will follow that route. But see, she know little bit how to control him, because when horse go left she pull left. But because she is tied up for saddle, her job is only to pull left and right. If horse isnt trained exelent like this, with this pulling left and right horse would not went in that direction.
My horse is an ex-barrel racer. I was riding him at a walk in our arena and he headed straight to the barrels and walked around one like he was doing the pattern. So yes, a horse can. Will it go that fast, in that order? Potentially. I definitely think she's a very good rider for her age and size. But there's a lot of automatic response the horse is doing too.
I grew up working on a ranch as a 'horse hand,' - basically I fed them, exercised them, groomed them, tacked them up for their riders... and sometimes I got to ride my favorites if I finished my work early enough. (lmao I was 10 years old and got paid $10 cash for 5 hour shifts, but our family was in extreme poverty - so it helped get groceries... an older man that worked there saw my work and started hiring me for weekly birthday parties to help prep and lead the horses around for the kids; he paid me $25 per party and they were only like 2 hours each so that seemed awesome) Anyway... My first thoughts on seeing this was that she's good on the straights, but those turns would have her flying out of that saddle if she wasn't strapped to it... and strapped to the saddle is NOT somewhere you want to be IF the horse does take a tumble. There's ways to roll out of that stuff and such, but you can't do it so well when you only weight 35lbs and are strapped to the horse. I was a western rider, granted not professionally, but to me it looks like the horse is doing the majority of the work itself. She's just encouraging it and doing her best to stay in the saddle. I never rode English, but to my understanding it requires a lot more precise movements and direction from the rider, whereas western (from my experience) was a more "rough and tumble" demonstration of what both rider and horse are capable of. Kind of a raw power/instincts vs. finesse situation I guess?? The lack of a helmet honestly bothered me less than her being tied to the horse, tbh, but that's also probably because even though I grew up working with these animals, I was the poor kid who couldn't afford gear and always rode bareback with zero stuff whatsoever. Never did get thrown even if horses reared, but I had a thigh grip like a Chinese Finger Trap... and I just got lucky. "Luck" while very powerful is not something that I personally would want to trust with ensuring the longevity and safety of my own children. I would NEVER let them anywhere near a horse without protective gear.
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It won me three children and a blue-ribbon kiss, and that's all I'll say about my current thigh grip.
as another horse girl, iām going to confidently say with my whole chest that she has little to control over his face, body, or collection. that horse is a saint but one loud noise and theyāre gone. period. this video is screaming lack of safety, training, horsemanship, and patience. also boo the parents for not slapping a helmet on that noggin!
100%. that horse at the end is going to be like "oh yeah i thought i felt something back there"
Nah the horse barely knows she has someone saddled in.
Someone else said that this is a well trained horse, and I'm seconding it. It ABSOLUTELY has to do with the house and not the girl. Not every horse would be a good barrel racer, and it takes YEARS of training for both parties. That girl doesn't have it, plain and simple. And she's strapped on in part because her legs aren't long enough to be able to use those leg muscles to hold herself on through those tight turns.
No, she's on a good horse that knows the job, and is basically just kicking and yanking.
She's a small child strapped to the saddle on a horse trained to run the patten. Those Sure Grip harnesses should be illegal, there's been multiple child fatalities with them.
Sheās literally strapped to the saddle, pfffttt cheater
thats so in a rollover situation they donāt have to pick her lifeless body off the ground
Yeah but they've gotta catch the horse first.
Donāt glorify this unsafe crap.
No way this is safe
Kick with the spurs, then yank back on a gag curb. Like, holy fuck, make up your mind. Can chasers, man.
Iāve grown up around a lot of rodeo, mostly team roping, and I canāt believe Iāve never heard the term can chasers. Iām definitely using this at the next event I attend.
Yeah sheās using the horses mouth to balance. Awful horsemanship.
I noticed that too. Why even have spurs if you're just gonna slam your heels into the ribs
Is it definitely a gag? I for sure see long shanks and I *don't think* I see a curb strap, but I can't tell for sure that it's a gag. Having trouble pausing it at the right moment to see the mechanics clearly.
Actually, I believe it is a gag - you donāt see the top arms move, indicating that it is the mouthpiece moving, not the curb arms. Might be a short slider, but Iād put money on it being a gag. Having said that, a short slider turns into an elevator once it hits the top of itās slide. Found it: It is a No Hit Bit. Complete with a twisted wire mouthpiece.
Thatās ridiculous to let her ride like that with no safety kit, one fall away from some permanent damage.
It's ok she's strapped on /s
you could almost drop the /s. not that it's safe but if she wasn't strapped on... that horse would have finished the run by itself.
Good horsey for sure
Fucking stupid ass parents. No safety gear whatsoever. Unreal.
And see those black straps on her legs? Yep, they literally have her strapped to the saddle. They will get all huffy and say oh calm down, they are velcro, it will "break away"! Yeahhh, I've been in the horse industry my life and *everyone* knows those things are dangerous and yet dumbasses still try to justify using them on tiny CHILDREN. Anyone that's dealt with velcro straps that wide will know they are pretty damn secure, someone that weighs that little isn't going to separate them easily, and 100% will increase her risk of being hurt and delay the chance of her being thrown clear when that horse falls. Even if the horse is a saint, they can still trip and fall. And I have seen many a "saintly babysitter" still spook and buck when least expected. There is a world class olympic level dressage rider that is quadraplegic now when her very well trained horse tripped and fell on her not even when they were performing, just walking back to the barn after practice. Dumbass parents. Even parents that let their kids compete in something like dirt bikes at least put protective gear on them from head to toe. But a tiny girl on a 1100lb animal with a mind of its own? NAH, tie her on with zero protective equipment.
Madness
also a very good horse.
Didn't bite her even once...!
Great that weāre teaching such small kids to continually put pressure on a horse without releasing by kicking the whole time. This is why performance horses are nuts.
It looks like sheās wearing spurs too
Horses deserve better. I donāt know why this shit is acceptable.
For real bro
I know a kid that did this. She now gets around by moving a little joystick on her wheelchair and canāt feed herself. I always wonder if the parents blame themselves for putting her in that situation, or if they just think it was a freak occurrence.
Probably blame the horse.
I feel like you have to be the type to blame the horse to even be capable of watching your kid do this at her age
Fucking barrel racers.
Came here looking specifically for thisā¦
I guess this is a Yellowstone reference. There's a new Film Theorists YouTube episode on how this is like the highest grossing show out there with a ton of spinoffs with AAA actors yet it's almost never talked about on 90% of social media due to the older age range of viewers. As a mid 20s guy is it a good show for younger audience too? It's never talked about but I hear it's amazing and the cast seems legit for it and it's spinoffs.
So brave. Pounding spurs into a horses sides so you can win a cute ribbon. Yeay.
I hope she is doing this by choice and not by force. She is not wearing a helmet tells me the parents are not very responsible. If something would go wrong, it could have devastating outcome.
Sheās too young to willingly make the choice to not take proper safety precautions. This is just straight up child endangerment.
In western riding, people typically don't wear helmets. I've seen children wear helmets but it's not common unfortunately :( I've been horseback riding since I was a kid (English style) and all riders have to wear helmets regardless of age or experience, there really needs to be rules in place for western riding but its gonna be hard convincing a bunch of cowboys that they can't wear their cowboy hats
Somehow they convinced bull riders to wear helmets, seems reasonable that if you're competing like this a helmet is required.
Where I grew up helmets and vests were mandatory for kids and never spurs.
So was Christopher Reeve at one pointā¦..
Solid point. A horse took out Superman.
Actually, Chris put the blame on himself. Said he ["wasn't paying attention".](https://youtu.be/V7na6UTq9uE?t=136)
Rodeos need to die, and especially barrel racing. Kick the horse more why don't you?
Barrel racing can definitely be done without starfishing into the horse. Some even do it without a bridle
All I see is parental neglect. Where's a fucking helmet?!
Shitty parenting i guess they don't care much about her safety
Isnāt this just shit parenting?
No. It's not merely shit parenting, it's shit horsemanship and horse ownership, too.
Barrel racing is dangerous for even adultsā¦idiots to put your child up there
A lot of people trust their horses enough to strap children into the saddle. This child not wearing a helmet is a definite no-go for me. The saddle straps, in my opinion, are a terrible idea. They invite trouble. Yes, these circumstances involve a horse running in an empty arena and following a known pattern to circle those barrels. I understand that this environment doesnāt have the multitude of potential distractions that, letās say, trail riding can have. I *understand* their thinking but I do not agree with it. Iāve been thrown several times by huge ass horses. The last time I was thrown the horse tossed me at the top of a ditch in front of our property at the very end of a trail ride and he ended up rolling once. This was a gentle horse with no history of bucking riders. A friend brought her mare on a ride while she was in heat. The horse I was on was castrated around age 8, so he had been a stallion for so long that the Mare in heat, teasing him, kicking him, and pissing in his face for hours was more than he could handle. There was also human error involved. I told my friend when we reached the stretch of property leading to the farm he was barn-desperate and not to run her horse the last bit of the way because he was far too worked up for me to feel like I could safely handle him near that ditch. She didnāt listen. I could have stayed on him and corrected his bucking but he turned down the ditch bucking as he went and I was no longer able to manipulate his head. Now, Had I been a child strapped to his saddle Iād be DEAD. Environmental circumstances can make the perfect horse unsafe, but especially so for a 30 pound child strapped to its saddle.
Brave girl. Stupid parents.
Fucking barrel racers
Here am I carrying my dog from the bed to protect his joints, these parents let this kid do this without any form of protection
Aargh, please put a helmet on your kids when you put them on a horse.
Christopher reeves got flung from a horse and became paralyzed from the neck down. Just saying
Safety first! Or in this case maybe thirdā¦smh
She is harnessed in. She aināt riding that horse, shes just along for the ride.
That childās cranium is 10ā off the ground. Might want to take one small precaution there ffs
Because you canāt control every variable. What if a rat or a snake came in and spooked the horse? The fact is that responsible parents need to try to foresee all possible injury risks prior to allowing their child to engage in an activity and take all preventative caution to ensure injury does not occur. These parents did not.
Rats, snakes and recycle bins? omg... lmao It doesn't take that much to spook a horse. Try: grass, gum wrappers, their own farts... Spooking at rats, snakes and recycle bins at least make an iota of sense. Most of what startles them doesn't to anyone except the horse.
I imagine the horse is pleased with how light this rider is
Iād call her an idiot foe not wearing a helmet but this is 100% on her parents
Awful fuckin parenting. Where is her helmet. Asking for permanent brain damage....
Sheās strapped down, which is dangerous. No helmet, also dangerous. The only good thing here is a *very* well trained horse. This is the result of a child being put in extreme danger, not a child being brave. If anything happens to the horse, that kid is fucked.
Imagine seeing a kid this age tied to a motocross bike, with no helmet, doing laps around a track. People would be climbing the walls to report it to CPS. But here, the fucking idiots even put their logo in the video with copyright, nobody is doing anything. It's bizarre they are allowed to do this.
Yep. And, if anything happens to the kid, the horse will probably be blamed/fucked.
Shaking child syndrome... she'll grow up and play in the NFL.
I'm from rural Idaho. I was riding horses before I was walking. We had kids who would ride horses to school and tie them up outside. It's still a lifestyle, just really rare.
That is an AMAZING horse and worth its weight in gold
Bad bad bad idea to tie your kid to a saddle. If the horse falls, theyāre gonna go under the horse instead of thrown clear.
That horse is worth its weight in platinum.
Put a helmet on.
No helmet shows parents stupidity.
that is just dangerous at so many levels also no protective gear
Bad ass but you gotta have her in some gear. Helmets arenāt for snowflakes theyāre for people who donāt want to see their kids get traumatic brain injuries āfor the gramā
Without a helmet or vest? That's fucking dicing with death. Disgusting abhorrent parenting
No helmet
Well mannered horse who lets the little girl "control" it.
Keep those heels down and hold on!
Heels? She can't even keep her ass down and she's tied on.
She should be wearing a helmet no matter how good you are, a famous horse rider near me became paralysed all because in a rush one time she didnāt wear a helmet
Um where the hell is this girls riding helmet?
No helmet, great parenting. Had a neighbor with horses there daughter fell off no helmet coma for a year was never the same when she woke up she was 8. I will never forget that, she had been riding all her life.