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- Albion & Landy - the fastest mile of the yearThe two had never met, but the 20 year-old Harry Landy had knowledge of his charge, and that contributed to Albion pacing to the fastest mile thus far of the year at Cal Expo. Winners-Over pacers, racing for a harness racing purse of $4,500 purse, were featured on Saturday night (February 18), on which Albion got back on the winning track. […]
- Itrustyou extends his winning streak to 13Itrustyou made it a lucky 13 in a row as he won the $74,600 Exit 16W final, the headliner in a trio of stakes contested Saturday night at the Meadowlands Racetrack. The 13-strong harness racing card also produced the highest total handle of the meet, with $3,144,519 wagered. […]
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- Harness racing - adding that personal touchHere is a behind the scenes video on harness racing. The author writes; 'My Dad works with a guy named Jamie who owns the Pompano Racetrack. Jamie owns about 12 horses. We got to see everything behind the racing scenes. […]
- The art of training with 'Billy' and 'Arty'This seven minute video shows Sue (whoever Sue is), going behind the harness racing scenes. Sue and her pacers 'Billy' and 'Arty' are shown training on her track prior to an evening race. […]
- Night Of Champions: reliving the 2010 seasonThe Night of Champions in American harness racing honors humans and horses who shined bright in 2010. That year's Dan patch Awards gala took place in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. […]
- 'Act of terrorism' on a NZ horse racing trackAbout 150 nails have been scattered around a New Zealand horse racing track, which race officials are calling an "act of terrorism" against the industry. An anonymous phone call 90 minutes before racing was due to start at Ascot Park Raceway in Invercargill on Saturday alerted officials that there were 120 lead head nails spread on the galloping tr […]
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- NSW representative - KerryAnn TurnerKerryAnn is currently the leading female trainer in NSW and has been recently selected to represent her state in the upcoming Australasian harness racing Young Drivers Championship in Perth next month. […]
- Golden Terror wins Open Pace in a thrillerGolden Terror, a five-year old Western Terror gelding out of the Artiscape mare Bell Ami's Love, won the $10,000 Open Pace in a season's best 1:58.3, over a sloppy track, for harness racing owners, Terri L. and David C. Esposito of Buffalo, NY, here at Buffalo Raceway Saturday night (February 18). […]
- Albion & Landy - the fastest mile of the yearThe two had never met, but the 20 year-old Harry Landy had knowledge of his charge, and that contributed to Albion pacing to the fastest mile thus far of the year at Cal Expo. Winners-Over pacers, racing for a harness racing purse of $4,500 purse, were featured on Saturday night (February 18), on which Albion got back on the winning track. […]
- Washakie is ready to bounce says McCarthyVeteran pacer Washakie is tough as teak and his harness racing trainer John McCarthy is confident the eight-year-old will bounce back to the winning list when he contests the fifth heat of the V75 interdominion championship at Gloucester Park on Monday night (February 20). […]
- Put Mback returns in stylePromising four-year-old Put Mback made an impressive return to harness racing at Tattersall's Park in Hobart today (Sunday February 19) leading all the way to easily take out the Big Park Stud Mobile (C0) over 1609 metres. […]
- Driller Mac is now Derby boundDriller Mac proved he is a genuine Tasmanian Derby contender with a game win over star filly Cloudy Delight in The TOTE 3YO Pace over 2090m at Tattersall's Park in Hobart today (Sunday February 19). The Mick Maxfield-trained gelding faced the breeze outside of the odds-on favourite Cloudy Delight for the last 1200 metres but proved too strong over the c […]
- Itrustyou extends his winning streak to 13Itrustyou made it a lucky 13 in a row as he won the $74,600 Exit 16W final, the headliner in a trio of stakes contested Saturday night at the Meadowlands Racetrack. The 13-strong harness racing card also produced the highest total handle of the meet, with $3,144,519 wagered. […]
- Summer Camp & Bartlett justify favoritismInvading Summer Camp (Jason Bartlett) went the distance Saturday night (February 18), winning Yonkers Raceway's $33,000 Open Handicap Pace. Leaving from post position No. 4 as the 7-5 harness racing choice, Summer Camp worked around P H Jackpot (Cat Manzi), making the lead just after a :27.4 opening quarter-mile. […]
- Bay Of Sharks & Bay Girl prove too smartYoung harness racing trainer, Corey Johnson, and owner Michael Sergi made a profitable journey to Woodbine on Saturday night as they sent out a pair of $50,000 Series final winners in Bay Of Sharks and his half-sister, Bay Girl. […]
They tie the tails up when the horse is in its stall and when it has its blanket on. over time the tails just stay like tht. Also, to add more color, trainers will put “Weeds” in the tails. You kno…just like we put exstentions in our hair. lol
But these arent walking horses karminou. lol. god people. Get your breeds right. I ride Morgans and i can even tell the difference between walkers and Saddlebred.
Actually they havent been deformed. They naturaly move like that. Even as foals. They’re not Walkers. You dont need to pu heavy shoes on these horses to get them to put up their feet. lol. If your not sure about the breed. Dont comment.
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HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHAA i laughed so hard when i read this!
I too ride saddleseat and i couldnt agree more wit wut you said about all this sick jealous people who just arnt talented enough to pull of the saddlebred style
These are Saddlebreds, not Walkers! And I’m asking as one horse person to another, do these horses look unhappy? They have their ears up, they are expressive and traveling very normally for a saddlebred; as previously posted, often babies have this much motion with no training. Just look at the faces and ask if these are abused. Why not harass someone who owns a starving horse, not people who want to enjoy their breed for its beauty. Have you ever seen a baby doing dressage in the pasture?
Seriously people , what part of this is acceptable ??? these horses have been deformed on purpose , intense torture to look like that …. what part is natural pls explain : the heavy shoes or the tail,holders or the injections
I am not a hunt seat rider. And it never fails to amaze me that somehow it is okay for you to speak your mind, but anyone else is just a, what did you call it, oh yeah, a cunt rag. And if you’ve been doing it all your life, it means you’re either too stupid to see the harm you cause, or you just don’t care. So tell me about soring and cutting the tail tendon. If I’m so ignorant, enlighten us all about just HOW the horses get such exaggerated movement and a bent tail.
Natural? Seeing these images makes me wonder what the equestrian world is coming to, very sad.
I know I’m right, I’ve been doing this my entire life. So don’t try telling me or anyone else that this is the horse world’s dirty little secret. You just think that because you are not a part of it. your probably some huntseat or whatever rider, I don’t really care; people like you are so fucking boring to watch in the show ring. spewing filth? I’m speaking my mind, excuse me if ignorant jerk-offs like you piss me off enough to be profane. .
Go ahead, dazzle me with your experience and genius when it comes to this. Or are you just into spewing filth on a public forum? Read up kid, this stuff is the dirtly little secret of the horse world.
people like you make the horse world look bad, cunt-rag. you don’t know shit about these horses honestly you really don’t. you can tell yourself you do but in the end your just an ignorant little dumb shit.
Okay I agree the Big Lick Walkers are terrible with what they do, but that is totally different than a fine harness horse and is a different breed (if you don’t know the difference?). To claim the “you know everything about cruelty” I sure hope you have the education and credentials to back that up.
Yeah right, fyi I have with beautiful angels here, 26 horses I rescued from slauther because they were not good enough for shows anymore, I took them directly from the pens where they were starving waiting to be killed. 2 of them were walking horses with rotten hooves that took several months to heal due to pads and chains with acid on it. What’s sad is people like you telling so candidly what hurts and what doesn’t. I know everything about cruelty, I spent my entire life trying to stop it.
Pads weigh less than your running shoe soles which cushion the foot fall. Chains are light weight “rattlers”. And yeah, there is no acid honey. Do you even know what blinkers are for? They have nothing to do with actual blinking (duh). And uhm the tails aren’t pinned – you must be new.
Watch a saddlebred weanling or yearling without shoes and the majority will still have have high knee motion – just like Standardbreds are bred to pace, it’s their gait. The soring is Tennesse Walkers and yes it’s cruel but you have your breeds mixed up people.
this is natural! and also it dosent hurt them bits dont hurt horses well its just the way you use them and they treat them good also saddlebreds love it
yep look at these horses with such beauty and how they walk its wonderful
By the way in comparison to Saddlebreds – hunters, dressage horses and western horses just seems so boring. They are kinda dull.
Wow, as there are some pretty ignorant people out there who really beliebve rumors and are too daft to go out and research for themselves. As an equine science graduate who is involved with the breed let me assure you you dont put cloves in the anus, the pads are lightweight leather and actually add cushioning like a runjing show and it is not a tendon cut…please educate yourselves.
I worked at a vet (horse) hospital and go to horse shows and most saddlebred love, and I mean love people, and they love attention and I have seen retired saddle breds sound as can be, I don’t like set tails it’s not needed to make them pretty, the weighted shoes don’t seem to do any damage on the average horse, they are bred to be so sound, I love them and though saddle seat isn’t for me Saddlebreds can do anything, wonderful horses.
If they are natural, why is a tendon in their tail cut for AESTHETICS? If they are bred that way, why are ENORMOUS pads put on their feet? Why do they wear chains on their ankles? Why do hackney’s wear rubber tubing harnesses to make sure they can only have one foot on the ground at a time? Why do people shove cloves in their anuses? I promise, while dressage isn’t perfect (far from it), I have NEVER had to put a grocery item in a horse’s butt just to win.
saddleseat is most definitely not a dying part of the industry. look at the morgan, arab, NHS, saddlebred, fresians, dutch harness horse and hackney breed shows. american saddlebreds are show horses from every aspect. they were not bred to be natural, they are bred to be freaks. thats their purpose. they are 100% SHOW horse. I’m sorry, but there isnt any form of riding or driving out there that isnt artificial.
Wait a second. Acid doesn’t hurt? God made their tails look like that? You’re kidding right? They are beautiful, and if it were natural it would be impressive. But its SO artificial–why can’t they just be amazing with their own natural talent? Why does it take all the above mentioned crap to win? God willing, saddleseat is a dying part of the horse world. They make us all look bad.
if you want the truth, just google soring the gaited horse and see what you get
lin, that is untrue, they “sore” their feet, they do have a natural gait, but the high stepping is not natural.