Yep. So happy that all of these years, the people I’ve been called a “snowflake” by, people who condone this blatant abuse, are now hopefully going to be held accountable. Ive always said I love my horses too much to participate in those practices. So glad to have more people speaking out on these topics!!!
I'm so glad you decided to talk about this!!! I wish more people did because it's just so terrible and I wish more people were less ignorant and actually educated themselves before claiming that Olympic horse riding isn't abuse
@@GypsyEquestrian To be fair, you would think that the most public, grandiose, widely-marketed sports event of all time would have higher standards, not lower. :/
I was on the fence if I wanted to support olympic equestrians at first, but this video helped me realize that I shouldn’t. High level riding SHOULD be about a well trained horse and rider, not piling on abusive tack, bits, and technique to make them do what you want. It’s such a shame.
Yea, you shouldn’t have to abuse your horse to win a Medel! You just need hard work, not yanking on a peice of metel in your horses mouth. Don’t abuse horses!
Thank you so much for speaking out about this! If anyone wants to try and help make a difference for the treatment of Olympic horses “Raleigh Link” has a petition on her UA-cam community section that I suggest you sign.
I never watch the olympics because I'm always too busy to do so, but I always thought that the horses involved were treated better than most horses. Thank you for this funny, yet insightful video. :(
yes this is so true I did not get to watch all of the horse olympics and I can't belive the way they treat their horses. By the way love your channel, and I hopefully will be R+ with you later in the year with my 2 ponies.
Its actually so sad that some ppl treat horses like this. As you said at the end of the video, this NEEDS to stop. My best friend and I watched the show jumping (We're showjumpers) and you can honestly see that those horses are not happy/comfortable. But honestly you managed to make an actually lighthearted video on this horrible topic and that must've been kinda hard. Hats off to you😇
Thank you for posting this. You showed very clearly everything wrong with high level equestrian sports, and actually did it in an easy to understand, humorous way. As an old timer who used to ride dressage, it didn't used to be like this. Dressage is supposed to be about lightness, balance, show progressive training, subtle cues and harmony between horse and rider. If you watch old videos of Dr. Klimke (4 time gold medal in dressage) and others from back in the day, the riders seem to barely move. The horses are relaxed and happy. Now it's turned into something ugly with incredibly poor riding - super heavy hands, seats all over the place, legs flapping around...not to mention bloody mouths, blue tongues, effing rollkur! I remember sometime back in the early 2000's, a grand prix judge told me that they were - kind of secretly - starting to introduce saddlebred blood into European dressage horses. I was like "Why would they do that?" and she said "Because saddlebreds are ATHLETES!" It seems to me like they started adopting the abusive attitude towards training that saddlebred trainers are so famous for. When i see olympic dressage today, they do remind me a little of saddlebreds - strong knee and hock action but less real extension, no support from their hindquarters, tension in their body, and the wide, distressed eyes that you often see in saddlebreds. They might as well just ask for big licks in the dressage ring and be done with it! At this point I'm all for eliminating equestrian sports from the Olympics.
I watching some videos of people riding higher levels like that and it was painful to watch. So many things my trainer would’ve gotten onto me for. That’s one of the reasons I started wanting to train horses so that I can help make a difference in at least a few horses lives.
Unfortunately, this is too true. All these high-level disciplines take it WAYYY to far. All of them. Once high amounts of money are involved, people just go insane. I hate to see it. #stophorseabuse
So true. As a younger person, I used to love watching the Olympic equestrians but now that I’m older and understand more, this is just gross. I don’t even know why the equestrian sport is in the Olympics if the horses are treated so poorly. I was watching the riders in all events and I just wanted to scream at the very top of my lungs. I just wish things can get better for all these horses. Why do these people even get recommended for the Olympics.. they should be recommended for jail time and not just a slap on the wrist. Thanks you for pointing this out. Ik a lot of people have but the more actual equestrians there are, the better. Thank you. Also love the vids😊 sorry for such a long comment😅
Let me cach my trainer wiping my horse... It would everything inside me to not wip the hooves off of her. That is why I don't have a trainer, most (not all) of them are abusive. It time someone stands up for what's going on in the Olympics. Thank you for showing this to people! Love your channel.
if you look at the Pentathlon there were also these moments i caught. One of the riders that was riding for the woman's to replace another because she got injured(I think?) was the same one that beat their horse last time crying because the horse wouldnt jump.
it really just depends on the rider there id abuse in every discapline its up to the rider to make that desicion ive met some english riders really respect their horses but some dont care
That dressage walk in the beginning though 😂😂😂 In all seriousness though, thank you for making this video. I totally missed all of the equestrian sports this year. These wrongs were very disheartening to see. Such a shame.
Olympics needs to be tackless (including spurs and crops). If theses are elite horsemen/ women, they should all be able to ride a horse tackless just fine...
tackless should at least be an event. if their horses will do the same at least without a bridle, it would be a very good demonstration of horsemanship.
I think people who enjoy having their lower back over 4’+ jumps might disagree but what do I know 🤷♀️ I think a lot of countries don’t really do tackless to the point where there’s a lot of athletes to pick from
@@BrightStarHorses Cool! An old cowboy I knew used to ride his cutting horse without a bridle and she would do everything the same as with. one of his favorite sayings was "the more on the horse's head, the less in the riders" 🤠
@@itsstorytimee6156 there are degrees of tackless. I wouldn't ride bareback anymore faster than a walk, and for some events, bareback would be too dangerous, but riding without a bridle is a good skill to learn, particularly if the bridle breaks in some way.
I thought, when I saw the 1994 version of Black Beauty, with Sean Bean, Peter Davison, Peter Cook, Alun Armstrong, David Thewlis, and Alan Cumming as the voice of the horse, I thought, "OK, this is the 19th Century, when working people had to depend on horses to make a living, and working them too hard and hurting them was probably inevitable. But everyone with access to horses today can afford to treat them better." It's only by watching UA-cam videos over the last two weeks that my eyes have been opened to the cruelty going on today.
@AbsolutlyChaos well, I have always wanted to try western (not abusing, obviously aha) but is western pleasure as a whole abuse or are there just elements of abuse like in top level dressage for example? I don't know much about the discipline
@@appls_equestrian it's really only some people. I feel like with any discipline, the people who want to win are usually the ones who treat horses like tools. My * favorite* discipline is O-Mok-See, I would highly recommend as everyone I've met is so nice and supportive!
@@appls_equestrian Western pleasure generally is ok. The point is to have a relaxed and collected horse. There is some very sketchy people but generally “pleasure” sports are better than extreme ones.
it's unbelievable what riders do to win. and FEI just watches. this should absolutely be illegal, glad you pointed it out. dressage is meant to be a symphony, where horse and rider are working together to look beautiful and graceful. its less and less of an art, and more and more abuse. its awful how so many people just watch, and a lot of people dont even see it as abuse, thus doing it themselves. when will riders, trainers, and orginazations finally realize that theyre asking too much of the horses? and when will they do something about it? thank you for making this video, ive been watching your videos for a long long time!
You know the funny thing is most olympic horses are abused Mostly talking about jumping jumping a horse 6 feet Is not natural to an animal that weighs 800+ That cannot be good on their cannon bones 😅
@@BeMoreBillyOfficial thank u so much for the confirmation I do think that those riders should not even be allowed to own horses and some of those riders r actually good riders I do lessons at a barn and they take amazing care of all their horses and they do boarding and still help with exercising all the horse! And btw sry for the long answer
After the demonic blasphemous opening I refused to watch any of the Olympics. It’s no surprise considering the demonic nature that this is how the poor innocent horses were treated. I’m so tired of this abuse taking place at the so called “top levels”.
Honestly they should make it all bitless then it would be better (not perfect I know but at least a little ebtter) but people who want justice for the horses 👇🏻(not forcing at all
RO IF I GET TO THE OLYMPICS I WILL NEVER ABUSE THE HORSE LIKE I RIDE HORSES WITH NON BAD TACK BUT STILL IM SCARED IF IM ABUSING when and or if I go to the Olympics I’ll make sure my horse is ok the whole way through
I just hate how horses get treated like machines and has to do everything "perfect" (even though that's impossible) just for human entertainment and for the win. It's absolutely disgusting...
(I do not support any of the abuse shown in the video and dont take this comment as defence of what they do (which I think is horrible)) at least in XC the horses looked happy and pretty excited compared to SJ and Dressage (Again Im not saying they are much better but i do want to bring attention to the horses and I think it is very bad with how dangerous the jumps are in XC)
This is seriously why I do not watch anything high level with horses because I know in some part I am going to see abuse and it makes me mad, and so I try and avoid that
The things they did during the Olympics are so wrong! Whatever happened to the "vets" that are supposed to check over the horses... I would not abuse an animal for money or prizes. They are souls, too!!! How dare they... #stophorseabuse
This is a good light hearted take on such a serious topic, well done for putting the spotlight on this.
Yep. So happy that all of these years, the people I’ve been called a “snowflake” by, people who condone this blatant abuse, are now hopefully going to be held accountable. Ive always said I love my horses too much to participate in those practices. So glad to have more people speaking out on these topics!!!
Ikrrrrr I wouldn't do dressage in my dreams (no hate i love dressage but just wouldnt do it)
I’ve missed these comedy type videos. Especially the ones that are comedy mixed when a serious topic
So glad to hear it!!
@@GypsyEquestriancould you start doing these vids more often?
Beautiful message!! #stophorseabuse
I'm so glad you decided to talk about this!!! I wish more people did because it's just so terrible and I wish more people were less ignorant and actually educated themselves before claiming that Olympic horse riding isn't abuse
It's pretty saddening to see people excuse the abuse because its the olympics too
@@GypsyEquestrian To be fair, you would think that the most public, grandiose, widely-marketed sports event of all time would have higher standards, not lower. :/
I was on the fence if I wanted to support olympic equestrians at first, but this video helped me realize that I shouldn’t. High level riding SHOULD be about a well trained horse and rider, not piling on abusive tack, bits, and technique to make them do what you want. It’s such a shame.
Yea, you shouldn’t have to abuse your horse to win a Medel! You just need hard work, not yanking on a peice of metel in your horses mouth. Don’t abuse horses!
Frr
This was phenomenally done..thank you for pointing this ALL out to anyone who did not know how awful it was to watch this year.🥺😕
I absolutely agree with you!
This madness needs to stop!!!!!! Poor horses! Also… this video was amazing!❤
this is so true. Thank you so much for for putting this out there!
Thank you so much for speaking out about this!
If anyone wants to try and help make a difference for the treatment of Olympic horses “Raleigh Link” has a petition on her UA-cam community section that I suggest you sign.
Thank you for calling attention to this. It was so hard to watch, and I really hope things change😢
I never watch the olympics because I'm always too busy to do so, but I always thought that the horses involved were treated better than most horses. Thank you for this funny, yet insightful video. :(
Excellent !!!
👑 Thank you on behalf of the horse !!!
You guys cracked me up on your stick horses! So funny!
I love your videos you are so encouraging and kind
This is not meant to be funny.
@@BrightStarHorses Ik I’m saying her others are
Love this video! ❤ More awarness needs to be spread! Your videos are awesome because they make them interesting to watch but still informational
thank you! That was my hope and goal!
@@GypsyEquestrian TYSM FOR HEARTING MY COMMENT AND REPLYING 💗💗💗 you just made my whole month 🥹💕 ofc! You did awesome
yes this is so true I did not get to watch all of the horse olympics and I can't belive the way they treat their horses. By the way love your channel, and I hopefully will be R+ with you later in the year with my 2 ponies.
I’m so happy u found a way to put true life situations into your bideo
Preach sister!
Its actually so sad that some ppl treat horses like this. As you said at the end of the video, this NEEDS to stop. My best friend and I watched the show jumping (We're showjumpers) and you can honestly see that those horses are not happy/comfortable. But honestly you managed to make an actually lighthearted video on this horrible topic and that must've been kinda hard. Hats off to you😇
Love this so much this is so true, the sport changes so much as you go up in the levels.
NOT THE ‘TWILIGHT’SAGA SHIRT SLAYY!😆😁👁️👄👁️💅🏻❤️♥️
Thank you for posting this. You showed very clearly everything wrong with high level equestrian sports, and actually did it in an easy to understand, humorous way.
As an old timer who used to ride dressage, it didn't used to be like this. Dressage is supposed to be about lightness, balance, show progressive training, subtle cues and harmony between horse and rider. If you watch old videos of Dr. Klimke (4 time gold medal in dressage) and others from back in the day, the riders seem to barely move. The horses are relaxed and happy. Now it's turned into something ugly with incredibly poor riding - super heavy hands, seats all over the place, legs flapping around...not to mention bloody mouths, blue tongues, effing rollkur!
I remember sometime back in the early 2000's, a grand prix judge told me that they were - kind of secretly - starting to introduce saddlebred blood into European dressage horses. I was like "Why would they do that?" and she said "Because saddlebreds are ATHLETES!" It seems to me like they started adopting the abusive attitude towards training that saddlebred trainers are so famous for. When i see olympic dressage today, they do remind me a little of saddlebreds - strong knee and hock action but less real extension, no support from their hindquarters, tension in their body, and the wide, distressed eyes that you often see in saddlebreds. They might as well just ask for big licks in the dressage ring and be done with it!
At this point I'm all for eliminating equestrian sports from the Olympics.
100% all of this! What we see now is not what it was meant to me! I’m also all for it being discontinued in the Olympics if it doesn’t change!
I love your Pariodies vid❤Pls make more❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I looove this I have been watching you for sooo long
3:34 HELPPP HAT IS THISSSSS😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 3:48 and gurl what is going on 😂
I feel like the cross country jumps r WAY to dangerous
I loved “Ms Stacy would be SO mad at her, those are NOT quiet hands” 🤣
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Thank you for this info !!!!!!!!!! I didn’t know this . That’s my best friend !!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I only watched the Cross country this year, and I didn’t watch too much of it. But wow, I had no idea how much people abused horses in the Olympics.
I watching some videos of people riding higher levels like that and it was painful to watch. So many things my trainer would’ve gotten onto me for. That’s one of the reasons I started wanting to train horses so that I can help make a difference in at least a few horses lives.
She’s just So right
3:30 WoNdErFuL PaRtNeRsHiP
Unfortunately, this is too true. All these high-level disciplines take it WAYYY to far. All of them. Once high amounts of money are involved, people just go insane. I hate to see it. #stophorseabuse
The only high-level event I could find without wild amounts of corruption/abuse was show minis, which still has incidents
Tysm for making this vid it makes it so clear that it is abus
It's sad how much abu$e was displayed in the Olympics this year. FEI didn't fault like ANY of the riders this year🙁
2:19 who does the test
Hi girly pop I love your videos❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
So true. As a younger person, I used to love watching the Olympic equestrians but now that I’m older and understand more, this is just gross. I don’t even know why the equestrian sport is in the Olympics if the horses are treated so poorly. I was watching the riders in all events and I just wanted to scream at the very top of my lungs. I just wish things can get better for all these horses. Why do these people even get recommended for the Olympics.. they should be recommended for jail time and not just a slap on the wrist. Thanks you for pointing this out. Ik a lot of people have but the more actual equestrians there are, the better. Thank you. Also love the vids😊 sorry for such a long comment😅
Let me cach my trainer wiping my horse... It would everything inside me to not wip the hooves off of her. That is why I don't have a trainer, most (not all) of them are abusive. It time someone stands up for what's going on in the Olympics. Thank you for showing this to people! Love your channel.
When will you post part two of horse girls at a sleep over😭😭
Lol this is great 😂❤My trainer was yelling at me for apparently see sawing when I wasn't then not even an hour later she did it 🥲😑
if you look at the Pentathlon there were also these moments i caught.
One of the riders that was riding for the woman's to replace another because she got injured(I think?) was the same one that beat their horse last time crying because the horse wouldnt jump.
it really just depends on the rider there id abuse in every discapline its up to the rider to make that desicion ive met some english riders really respect their horses but some dont care
Thank you for putting this out there,l had to laugh at how bad they are 😢
Did like to see some of my country doing bitless in the showjumping❤❤❤(atleast it LOOKED bitless, I hope it was🙃)
Yes there were some bit less riders in Showjumping this year
That dressage walk in the beginning though 😂😂😂
In all seriousness though, thank you for making this video. I totally missed all of the equestrian sports this year. These wrongs were very disheartening to see. Such a shame.
Who is the horse and rider at 2:20?
Olympics needs to be tackless (including spurs and crops). If theses are elite horsemen/ women, they should all be able to ride a horse tackless just fine...
tackless should at least be an event. if their horses will do the same at least without a bridle, it would be a very good demonstration of horsemanship.
@@halavana1 Liberty/tackless is actually now considered a discipline and there are finally liberty shows!!
I think people who enjoy having their lower back over 4’+ jumps might disagree but what do I know 🤷♀️ I think a lot of countries don’t really do tackless to the point where there’s a lot of athletes to pick from
@@BrightStarHorses Cool! An old cowboy I knew used to ride his cutting horse without a bridle and she would do everything the same as with. one of his favorite sayings was "the more on the horse's head, the less in the riders" 🤠
@@itsstorytimee6156 there are degrees of tackless. I wouldn't ride bareback anymore faster than a walk, and for some events, bareback would be too dangerous, but riding without a bridle is a good skill to learn, particularly if the bridle breaks in some way.
Amen!
I thought, when I saw the 1994 version of Black Beauty, with Sean Bean, Peter Davison, Peter Cook, Alun Armstrong, David Thewlis, and Alan Cumming as the voice of the horse, I thought, "OK, this is the 19th Century, when working people had to depend on horses to make a living, and working them too hard and hurting them was probably inevitable. But everyone with access to horses today can afford to treat them better." It's only by watching UA-cam videos over the last two weeks that my eyes have been opened to the cruelty going on today.
Girls, you are AWESOME for "shining a light" on this HORRIFIC Equine ABUSE!
five minutes and seventeen seconds of why I ride western 😭
Western has abuse too... and not every English rider is like this. Although _most_ top level riders aren't the greatest, yeah.. 🫠
@@appls_equestrian Unfortunately I know 😭. I used to ride western pleasure... yeah.
@AbsolutlyChaos well, I have always wanted to try western (not abusing, obviously aha) but is western pleasure as a whole abuse or are there just elements of abuse like in top level dressage for example? I don't know much about the discipline
@@appls_equestrian it's really only some people. I feel like with any discipline, the people who want to win are usually the ones who treat horses like tools. My * favorite* discipline is O-Mok-See, I would highly recommend as everyone I've met is so nice and supportive!
@@appls_equestrian Western pleasure generally is ok. The point is to have a relaxed and collected horse. There is some very sketchy people but generally “pleasure” sports are better than extreme ones.
it's unbelievable what riders do to win. and FEI just watches. this should absolutely be illegal, glad you pointed it out. dressage is meant to be a symphony, where horse and rider are working together to look beautiful and graceful. its less and less of an art, and more and more abuse. its awful how so many people just watch, and a lot of people dont even see it as abuse, thus doing it themselves. when will riders, trainers, and orginazations finally realize that theyre asking too much of the horses? and when will they do something about it? thank you for making this video, ive been watching your videos for a long long time!
Showjumping with Tom thumb bits? Do anything with those bits? .....
Who knew …. It was like this. Makes me really sad poor horses. This is horrible
Abuse is so icky 😢
Gotta go. I get what you're doing, but i can't watch anymore. Keep up the great work!😢
The Olympics should be without a bridle 🫠
I don’t think there are… any horses outside the US who are broke without a bridle lol
@@itsstorytimee6156 what do you mean with broke? :0
@@itsstorytimee6156 You really think that only americans can ride horse tackless? You need to get out more.
Horrible, horrible things that are happening to these poor horses. #stophorseabuse
Worst Olympics ever. What's happened to the world?😢
Go check out cutting! They have zero contact, using your hands is illegal in competition. It's so cool cuz the horses really do love it!
I like that she atleast made it comedy while speaking out abuse
Thank you! I try to make it entertaining
@@GypsyEquestrianI’m glad I’m not the only one who hates the FEI
The rolkur position is such a horrible practice
The hyperflextion causes a horses breathing to be stopped
I may be wrong, but the GBs Laura Collette didn't abuse but please correct me if im wrong!
But a lot of Olympic riders DO care for their horses. Keep that in mind ❤
yes its up to the rider most of them really care for their horses and respect them
Racing and Olympic sports that involve horse are so cruel because the riders push the horse to hard so this happens. 😔
1st I was at the Olympics watching the xc
You know the funny thing is most olympic horses are abused Mostly talking about jumping jumping a horse 6 feet Is not natural to an animal that weighs 800+ That cannot be good on their cannon bones 😅
100%!!!!
How r all those horses who got hurt in the jumping and cross country and all the other ones
I think they are all ok, if they weren’t it would probably have been announced. I hope they were anyway
@@BeMoreBillyOfficial thank u so much for the confirmation I do think that those riders should not even be allowed to own horses and some of those riders r actually good riders I do lessons at a barn and they take amazing care of all their horses and they do boarding and still help with exercising all the horse! And btw sry for the long answer
After the demonic blasphemous opening I refused to watch any of the Olympics. It’s no surprise considering the demonic nature that this is how the poor innocent horses were treated. I’m so tired of this abuse taking place at the so called “top levels”.
Like this comment if you hate the equine Olympics
Honestly they should make it all bitless then it would be better (not perfect I know but at least a little ebtter) but people who want justice for the horses
👇🏻(not forcing at all
hackamores hurt just as much as bits do.
@@BlutoServicePup there’s other kinds of bittless than hackamores yk? (No hate at all💗)
@@Brenna_EQ I know, and i often see people yanking their horse around in a halter/bitless bridle/hackamore because they think its humane.
My horse actually hates bitless a LOT. People just need to be better
RO IF I GET TO THE OLYMPICS I WILL NEVER ABUSE THE HORSE LIKE I RIDE HORSES WITH NON BAD TACK BUT STILL IM SCARED IF IM ABUSING when and or if I go to the Olympics I’ll make sure my horse is ok the whole way through
Lol😂
I just hate how horses get treated like machines and has to do everything "perfect" (even though that's impossible) just for human entertainment and for the win. It's absolutely disgusting...
What happened to all of the animal updates? You kinda disappeared
She has just been really busy
Sorry about that still working on them
@@GypsyEquestrian Kazi, we never really hear about her
All of them
@@GypsyEquestrianKazi!! i love all of them but she’s the OG
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PS I LOVE HER SO MUCH!
Usually I don’t like basing peoples riding off of a few frames but man I thought they were competing in the Olympics what is this 😭
I had a lot of video clips showing lots of their tests but I got copyrighted so I had to take screenshots instead 😵💫
@@GypsyEquestrian I wish UA-cam wouldn’t copyright random things used for educational purposes.
(I do not support any of the abuse shown in the video and dont take this comment as defence of what they do (which I think is horrible)) at least in XC the horses looked happy and pretty excited compared to SJ and Dressage (Again Im not saying they are much better but i do want to bring attention to the horses and I think it is very bad with how dangerous the jumps are in XC)
This is seriously why I do not watch anything high level with horses because I know in some part I am going to see abuse and it makes me mad, and so I try and avoid that
#stopanimalabuse
#stophorseabuse
Hey, that cross-country was actually good. No horses were hurt, which has to be some sort of record.
The things they did during the Olympics are so wrong! Whatever happened to the "vets" that are supposed to check over the horses... I would not abuse an animal for money or prizes. They are souls, too!!! How dare they...
#stophorseabuse
And u are so wise and an amazing rider with a horse or with a hobby horse
the bits were a little tight . .
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Oh my word the poor horses I feel so bad for them all animals do nothing deserve that the Olympics just want to win
Wow. I had no idea. Makes me sad.
Wow
I was so fooled…until I realised the dressage and showjumping was so god damn awful and I cried I was such a fool back then
There is BEGINNERS at my yard that ride BETTER than these Olympic riders
I had no idea it was this bad. Damn
It's horrible, I didn't have time to watch it this year with my puppy but I will stop shaming myself about it.
I didn’t watch it. The clips I saw were so bad I didn’t even look for it. Everything I saw just looked really bad.
Well done! Horse abuse under the guise of "I love horses".
Modern dressage is a joke! People need to educate themselves on proper horse biomechanics
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