Harriet Biddick loses her bridle at the Al Shira'aa Hickstead Derby - Speed Derby 2023 🫣 

If you're using the reins to balance, you're hurting your horse. Reins are for communication, not hanging on.

It's not that simple when you are jumping. All the riders at this sort of event are experts with years of experience, most of them have been riding since they were small kids. These are professionals.

​@@wjm1319 Yes. That's why some end up hurting horses because they try to balance themselves on the reins.

Impressive job of both of them 🙌🏼

A meeting of the minds. They both knew what the goal was.

Yes!!! ❤

It's a veteran. 18 years old.

As a kid when I took some small jumping lessons we were once asked to ride without reins entirely, across a pole course. It is important to be able to do that if you want to jump. Actually, I would go as far as to say that who can't do that shouldn't even start. There are so many videos out there from small competitions where you can clearly see the rider keeps pulling around in the mouth even across jumps.

@cindyrissal3628, total trust between horse and rider is most important as well.

I used to ride a great horse named Sidepockets. He was named that because you could 'rein' him with just your legs. little pressure right, little pressure left. He was such a smart horse!

And with a good working relationship with a great horse!!!

So true. I made a big thing about being able to ride my pony without reins, often holding them demonstratively loosely just for the sport. It's safer that way if you know what you are doing. Unfortunately, I couldn't afford to move up to big horse sports. It's very expensive.

Except it didn’t. There’s one more fence and they didn’t jump it

Absolutely! That's the most important thing 🙏

They actually train this way,because equipment failures do occur,notice it was a bitless bridle and she had a neck strap to hang on. But with all that ,yes,an amazing performance n both horse and rider.

Remember watching an Olympic event in horsemanship years ago. Rider fell off for some reason. Horse went on and finished the course in record time and flawlessly. Judges wouldn't award the gold however 'cause it has to be horse AND rider.

@@veramae4098 Thats not necessarily as cool as you think...

Aww but yeah, I do understand the worry

Great story! Horses are amazing creatures!

My first horse, a Quarter horse mare, carried me 12 kilometres home while I was having an attack of gallstones . She could tell when a spasm was coming on and would stop and refuse absolutely to move until it was over and I was balanced again. Just took over and did the job. Animals' capabilities to think and act are grossly underrated. I'll bet this combo of horse and rider are totally in synch. Brilliant!

We couldn't agree more 🙏🏼

"Snowman" was also a true-life documentary film in movie theaters years ago, featuring real-life black and white video of Snowman jumping and being a children's pet. Maybe you can find that movie online somewhere to watch. Snowman was MORE than an RD book - he was a real horse who went from a kill-pen to prize-winning show jumper.

Not entirely true. A rider's job is to use the reins to communicate to the horse what is coming up - if it's a long jump or 2 close jumps or a jump followed by a sharp turn. The horse knows how to jump, obviously. That's not what the rider is helping with. The rider's job is to use their knowledge of the course (which in competitions, the horse has never seen before, but the rider gets briefed on before competing) to tell the horse *how* s/he should be jumping in order to meet the next challenge on the course in their best form. Bits & reins are communication, not control.

@@wjm1319, understood, but far too many riders balance themselves with the reins and pull on the horse’s mouth/head during the takeoff & landing.

Depends on the horse.

It's a hackamore, there is no bit.

You shouldnt use the bridle to stop or steer, thats for your seat and legs

Take care of eachother ....care for your horse and it will care for you

It's a hackamore, so no bit, and combined with the earnet it was able to slide off. The start of it was on the hill where the horse made strange move and the rider got off balance as well. I've had this happen once, I also use a hackamore.

Not so. It’s a great horse, but that rider did a fantastic job of riding the way it should be done.

@@Debbie338 Yeah, she just sat there 🤣😂

Correctly fitted and used a bridle should have no impact on a horse's ability to see. There is control of the horse but it's mostly through communication, unless a person is abusive. Then, yes, a bit especially can be quite harmful. But for a horse to continue on so perfectly focused on their job it means the horse and rider have a good relationship and the horse enjoys their job.

Especially when it comes to show jumping too

it's a mechanical hackamore/bitless bridle. He raised his muzzle and she pulled at the exact perfect time that the noseband just slid over his eyes.

@@lynnie0524 you are right. I thought it was a bit. Especially since some folks said that it is mandatory to have a bit. 👍

@@shelm-b8p I think bits are mandatory in dressage, but not so in jumpers.

​@@lynnie0524I am waiting for the day when the dressage rules change, so that the less equipment you use the higher the score. No bridle places higher than neck rope places higher than bitless places higher than single reins places higher than double reins etc. assuming the horses perform all the moves correctly. The original point of dressage was to get the horse to do the moves without looking like you were telling it to. So the less you need to communicate with the horse, the higher your score SHOULD be. The points awarded could be on some kind of scale they figure out for difficulty of maneuver and how well the horse performs it with whatever equipment is used, but less should always be more. Dreaming on . . .

You don't "loose" anything, because it's not a verb!!

Apparently this was a bitless bridle or hackamore, and it just slipped off over the horse's head.

bridle

@@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633 corrected.✌

It must have broken.

It was a hackamore/ bitless bridle. The horse lifted their head and the rider pulled at the same time, causing it to be pulled off their face

Why? If she doesn't jump in such competitions, she's not the best.

Read what she said again.@@ag8289

Many years ago I was basically forced to use a bit on my horse because it was regulation for western classes. I gave it one season as my horse absolutely preferred his hackamore. I recall him taking off in the arena and I had lost control of him however I let him run it out just to prove to the judges that the bit wasn’t for all horses 😅 my belated apologies to the other riders in the class, we went back to the hack and stayed out of arenas after that!

Agree, the music is so bad

I like it..

@@TomiokaGiyuu2518 sociopath?

@@rhythmandblues_alibi nah. It maybe doesn't really fit to horse jumping but it's not that bad

@@TomiokaGiyuu2518 … von solcher Musik wird die Milch sauer … in you know what I mean…

That horse was not wearing a bit, which is why the bridle was able to come off like that. It's wearing a hackamore, also known as a bitless bridle. A great option, if bits don't work for your horse, but bitless doesn't work for every horse either.

You should be embarrassed by making that assertion in this case, where it clearly does not apply.

Bits, spurs and whips are only brutal wheb used incorrectly.

A) not 'totally unnecessary' at all, some horses can't be ridden without bits B) bits aren't brutal when used correctly and C) bitless bridles, like all other equipment, can be brutal when used incorrectly or by riders who are harsh to their mounts regardless of equipment

Not much Hollywood about it because she didn't win, and Hollywood is all about the fantasy, against-all-odds type endings.

No, she pulled at the exact perfect moment where it could slip over the ears and come off, since there is no bit

the 'weird' jumps (hills etc) here are more "natural" than the ones with the poles painted bright colours

You can't make a horse do something it doesn't want to.

I was going to explain... logic, to you but you clearly havent see a horse IRL... You dont have room to talk here

It’s a bitless bridle

In the contrary of what has been said on the upper comment, I do not think that a bitless bridle is allowed in derby, although I can be wrong. If it's really not allowed, the bit probably wasn't properly attached to the bridle and fell off, which made the bridle come in the direction of the rider as the noseband opened

The rider is using a hackamore bridle

@@malice6477 oh okay. Good to know

@@eyyjes1056 Also good to know.