Well, stating the obvious here and I mean no disrespect but he needs to lose some weight to ride these reining horses most especially little baby 3 year olds. They shouldn't be pushing 3 years olds the way they do regardless but my goodness all that extra weight cannot be good for them. Most folks know they are around 14.2 14.3 on average....
Okay so first anyone who knows reining knows that Shawn Flarida is little so that weight comment is irrelevant 2nd that horse clearly tripped over his own hoof. If weight was an issue he wouldn’t have been able to catch himself and get up he would have just laid down! Don’t make comments like these when your not educated the reining horses bred today are much stronger at 3 years of age than mostly any horse out there they are bred to be strong and capable so keep those comments to yourself especially when speaking on the god father of reining who has made and excess of 6 million doing what he does!
@@jalenroberson8991 Firstoff, as I mentioned I mean no disrespect to S. Flarida, this is freedom of speech and I feel I am making points that are worthy of consideration. Shawn Flarida's record speaks for itself so no one is debating that. In terms of the weight comment it is my opinion and I will say this, if he were a woman, there would likely be no end to comments about weight. I feel my point about a 3 year old futurity is completely valid...even if the horses are physically ready mentally, it is pushing it!!!! It is like getting college degree by the time you are 10 or 12 years old. To have a 3 yr old in a curb bit with a metal chin strap is not a wholistic way of doing it. Just because you can does not mean you should. Lots of horses are on medications and it is a very demanding sport on joints, period. Reined cow horse, for instance, has a more wholistic approach in terms of how they bring those horses along, why can't the same be the case for reining horses - bosal --> snaffle --> bridle horse?
@@krist6074 it’s a public forum, for Christ-sake intended for public discourse, so whatever to that non-point…comments would be turned off otherwise. I like the sport and love the horses and stand by my point that a more graduated approach to competition would be more reflective of noble, for lack of better term, horsemanship. Other disciplines like dressage and reined cow horse do it that way. Of course, you don’t know what goes on in every program, but if I were a horse I sure would not want to be locked in a stall for most of the day but that is another topic, altogether.
@@krist6074 the person you commented to didn't say anything begrudging the reining horse industry or wishing that it wouldn't grow. He stated his opinion (and I concur) that it would be in Shawn's and his horse'a best interest to lose some weight. I used to show Quarter Horse Circuit. I used to be a chubby, fat girl I told I slimmed down. I have seen another obese man ride two different horses, and the horses could not properly handle his weight and struggled pitifully. I just watched Shawn win at the QH Congress Level 4 Reining Futurity.
A Real Cowboy would have helped the horse by pulling the rains to help the horses head come up and a Real Horseman would have Stoped the run got off and Checked on his horse !!!
