11/30/2025
Copied & pasted....not sure who to give credit...
Have a bad ride? Rough day working at the barn? A saddle you want just financially out of reach?
I'd like to take this time to remind you that...
Hunter/jumpers: we ride horses in circles and jump sticks for a living and then we let some person tell us our horse did, or did not, jump the sticks as pretty as another horse.
Dressage: we trot in circles and let someone tell someone else to write down whether or not we are circley enough for the circle club
Eventers: we decided jumping out of an airplane without a parachute wasnt exciting enough, so we run at mach speeds towards walls, ditches, and small lakes to see who can do it fastest.
Barrel racers: we spend all of our time fine tuning our ability to turn 3 times faster than anyone else
Ropers: we catch calves that are technically already caught
Steer wrestlers: we wrestle an animal that didnt even know there was a wrestling match coming their way
Team Sorters: even on our worst day, we didnt spend as much as the cutters.
Reiners: see dressage, add speed.
Cutters: we let several people tell us were better, or worse, at not letting calves hang out with their buddies.
Team penners: we take caught calves, and make them a little more caught
Mounted shooters: because weve used this skill ever in the last 200 years
Endurance: we take 10 times as long, and 10 times more money to get somewhere an ATV could've brought us.
Western Pleasure: we poke around at wine sipping speeds in the equestrian equivalent of a ball gown.
Obstacle challenges: we use anything that might possibly scare the crap out of most horses, spend too much time to set it up, then bring the formally sleeping horse through it as we tell them to relax.
Trail riders: cheers. Yall have it figured out 🤣
It's not that serious yall, so just have fun!