Are you too heavy for your horse? 

Thoroughbreds need the lightest and most athletic of riders - as do Arabs. It's sad seeing a horse even falling sideways under the heaviness of a rider.

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I think the horse would prefer she didn't climb on its back, overweight, or not. There is a reason horses are not born with bridles and saddles.

But they sure can be ridden WITHOUT either!!

@@camera2painting horses have been bred for hundreds of years to be able to carry people for whatever purpose. you can also ride horses WITHOUT tack, but it takes training. how about you educate yourself.

@ottb.harvey Making such an obvious statement hardly requires education. Plenty of examples of horses and riders on TV. The size of the horse usually reflects the purpose, and the riders' weight is appropriate to the horse and the purpose.

Hey x this is what I'm trying to do. How did you achieve it? Well done btw and Thanks x

Yes! Precisely. I see this double standard often on social media. Another double standard i've seen in my personal life is muscly people who are too heavy for their horse, getting critiscied much less than people with a lot of fat. Muscle weighs a lot more than fat, so a good-looking muscly person can actually do considerably more damage in comparison to a fat person, and weigh much heavier, but people are more likely to let it slide because they physically looking good. Being able to ride a horse isn't just about how much fat you have, it's also taking into consideration your height and muscle mass, the last two of which people are more likley to disregard, unless it somehow contributes to someone looking less conventionally attractive.

@@shadow14805 and @ielektra: For the love of Pete, (Yes, that's a man's name), please stop it already. Who cares what sex the rider is??? I can pretty much guarantee that the horse doesn't give two craps about who is on their back apart from the weight, relationship with and experience of their rider. Hijacking this video in order to further a social justice agenda only removes the focus from the intended lesson the owner and Steve are trying to help us all see here. Making a horse's life better, not worse. Grow up and get a better helmet if this video "triggers" the issues you have with your scales.

@@hazeltyler89 "Who cares what sex the rider is???" Tell that to the people me and ielektra are critiscising, lol. That's literally our whole point. The only person getting unnecessarily triggered here is you. What's your problem? Do you _not_ want people to be fairly critisised? Do you genuinely think good-looking heavy people should be given more leeway on hurting a horse's back? We're not saying anything controversial. Get a grip, dude. Your obsession against anything "social justice" is clearly rotting your brain to the point that you'll see someone say some pretty basic shit and get upset. It's the equivalent of someone getting so obsessed against anything politically opposing that they start accusing everyone of being communist. Put down the phone and take a breather. No one is saying anything extreme here. If you can't handle people talking about the reality of a situation, you can't handle reality. Scroll past if you don't agree with what's being said or create a genuine counter argument, don't just throw a hissy fit. It's unproductive and gives you a bad look.

Wow. a) you can't make me - just like YOU, I'll say what I want, where I want. and b) you really missed the point.@@hazeltyler89

You might want to reread the comments you are criticizing. The point they were making is that it doesn't matter to the horse what gender the rider is, weight is weight, but that people tend to criticize heavy female riders and rarely criticize equally heavy male riders. I've seen that happen.

I agree, updates are so welcome!

There are many reasons women in particular can put on weight from a physiological standpoint: thyroid problems, autoimmune problems i.e. lupus, PSOS, peri menopause & menopause.

Not even those breeds. Horses backs are incredibly delicate. I agist at a riding school and the poor heavy breeds get all the overweight people on them. Their backs are destroyed and they’re still forced to work. 😢

Added years to the horses too

Agreed..definitely no more than 20% including all tack.

They weren't riding Arabians!

Horses then where bred for a particular job,and any ridden horse that was a form of transport weather ridden or driven had to be able to do the job in hand, it was peoples lively hoods,especially a knights horse, many knights were winched into the saddle for their stint or to fight in battles, peoples horses were part of their very existants then and horses were kept differently and bred differently, so i guess all was good .Friesians are a good example of need breeding from Friesland were ladies riding hunters types, during the wars they were bred as artillery horses,light draught,and now they do both, in hand and ridden.

@@firstnamelastname-uq9hr Thank you

Knights -in-armour rode huge heavy-weight horses like shires.

Also people in general were much smaller in the old days, look at some of the old clothes and shoes in museums, people today are just overall bigger from better nutrition , less illness etc.