That's the point . It's who does them better

@The Magic Twister it's the age these horses are required to perform at. Racehorses and reiners are expected to do this hard hard work at such a young age. Dressage horses don't go pro until much much older and most Olympic showjumpers you won't see under 10 years old. It's different asking an already fully grown horse to do those things.

Shame on them for what? This is a AMAZING ride the horses don't seem to be hurt, frustrated, Anything! So shame on u for bashing them fir no reason

Dude let's see do the horses seem frustrated? No do they seem in pain? Nope! Do they seem they even might like what there doing? Yes!! So get ur head outta ur ass and realize there fine

no it isn't.  much less injuries to the horse compared with jumping or racing. and it is a lot of fun too, for both horse and rider.  I have a rescue horse that evidently was used for reining before I saved her from slaughter. she does all those things, she licks and chews and has as much fun as I do. it is a blast. ride em cowgirl!

I reign bridleless bitch it is the best thing in the world for me. I have to have a saddle because I'm not ready to go bareback yet. it's amazing.

Equestrian Girl so's your grammar

I guess show jumping and western pleassure, barrel raccing, eventing isnt??

+_Equine_Perfection_ rollkur?

There's no good benefit from rollkur.. even if didn't do harm though what's the point? On a dressage horse it literally does the opposite of what one should be trying to achieve. Here it just serves to put the horse in a state of learned helplessness and put their balance at risk.

That is my biggest problem with reining. The rolkur.

Rollkur isn't always the case for reining.

you're wrong ERRRR try again,go back to peta. 1.the horses dont get dizzy 2.their heads are fine you obviously watched flicka once and think you know everything lmfaooo

horses can get dizzy guys lol you're honestly just as ridiculous as people who claim horses can't feel pain

I doubt they get dizzy but the rolkur is bad for balance.

Have you ever actually like...ridden a horse

A yellow starfisher, thank you very much.

Well for your personal information, I was not insulting your discipline, yet here we are. You're probably just a twelve year old. XD

Twenty twelve year old, thank you very much.

Well that, my friend, is not a thing. Your sarcastic tone has reached the point where it is no longer comprehensible.

I'm a taking gibberish, thank you very much,

+Anthony tie Well said!! VIVA REINING. LOL

kkk Kim mmmmm

Preach! 👏👏

Yes, and all on the slightest cues, shows how horses don't have to be jerked around and heavily cued. They teach them lightness from the start, so they stay light forever.

Well I'm sure the horse does back up with out lifting his hand but being that it is reining why would you knock him for using his reins?

Name a reining trainer better than Shawn or even andrea? Jonathan the skinny one isn't bad at the sport either. Shawn doing what he loves and knows. I guess your the joke

Jenny A. I ride a 30,000 dollar reining stud. Putting your hand up makes the horse lower his/her head.

it truley is. I've been riding for 2 and a half years and it is so much work but it all pays off in the end

I thought 2:27 was good. Horse was holding the ground but after that the horse wasn't the greatest at the back up. Very nice horse though i wouldn't complain. Probably +1/2. Better backup would have been a 1

Definitely looked rough

They are trained. They are gauged with spurs and the bit is constantly bumped until these babies mouths are so sore that they are not about to put their head out of that position. I watched a training video. Think it was Clinton Anderson. The whole time he's spurring a little horse in the side to soften him up and sawing on his mouth to get him to give. Well it works but I don't see the purpose and it's hard physically on these horses. I adopted an exreining horse that had sold for thousands but hocks were soooo bad he'd just give out in the back end and collasps. He was only 12 years old but in his younger day could spin a hole in the ground. But he paid dearly for his good work. A horse is not developed enough at 2 or 3 to do this hard work. These people are just money hungrey animal abusers.

bellasue02 Clinton Anderson is a bad example to watch. I personally find alot of his techniques quite harsh and physically rough. Where I ride they have some reining horses (One who is 33 and still giving a lesson once a week) and they are all trained to go off a shift in weight and a light touch. Ive never seen them be ridden roughly.

Clinton is a horseman not trying to push gimmicks as most clinician. Learn from him, I guarantee you can't accomplish 1% of what he can with a horse. Clinton understands horses and doesn't sugar coat. If you hand him a problematic horse he will get through the tough spot. You people don't understand horses and are actually dangerous to be around. Anyone who knows anything about horses knows Clinton is a good hand.

He does know horses. He knows if you put enough pressure/pain in the right place the sensitive young two year olds will do what he wants. You don't understand horses or care about what happens in the long run for the horses. My husband is a vet and we see the results. You like the rest just want the blue ribbon.

Well I do care about the long run and keep the horses best interest in mind. Maybe I don't uderstand but there all I know all I do, people send me horses with an intention that I try my best to accomplish. Weather if it's a non pro reiner, a prospect, or a colt to get going around the arena and basic foundation meaning following it nose around with direct rein. Normally I found once a horse figure out how to follow there nose around both ways they are pretty good about being soft off both reins.than start asking them to side pass a little. Horses are typically good leaded so that develops on there own in most cases. I'm sorry about you rescue horses who's haucks are used up. That's sad. I feel horses need to be manage properly. The good guys don't thrash on them because they break. Reiners done right have a great foundation that hrs of slow boring repetitive through maneuvers. If you tap out the maneuver they learn to not like the stop or turn or any maneuver. I even get sent occasional jumper or dressage horse with bad habits/rearing, bucking \ stuff that average rider can't handle. In that case it's not about earning that horses trust at first it's about scaring the horse in the moment of there negative habit. Horses are creatures of habit in my opinion and I try to create good habbits. Your husband the vet probably doesn't see warn out haucks on regular basis I would assume ocd in stifles and navicular cases on these kind of horses. I don't know your experience with Clinton but he works with lots of horses that art safe for average hobby horse person. He owns and breeds very high quality of horses that are leading in this industry. We do have plenty of heavy handed rough looking guys in this business probably in any disepl

Okay, that 's what I thought. Thank you.

I don't know for sure, but I'm willing to bet that horse is descended from Gunner (aka Colonels Smokingun and Colonels Smoking Gun). Gunner was bred to be a pure Quarter Horse, but the AQHA refused to register him because of the white rule: white extending past the knee on the front leg, past the hock on the back leg, or past the eyes on the head were considered defects, and disqualified horses from registration with the AQHA, regardless of the purity in their pedigrees. So, his owners registered him as a Paint Horse with the APHA, instead. He is officially named Colonel's Smokingun on his APHA papers. The APHA was happy to have him, especially when he became a leading stallion in the NRHA (National Reining Horse Association). His bold markings allowed even casual observers to instantly recognize him, his champion status made him a household name in the Western Horsemanship world, and the APHA enjoyed the boost to its prestige. Gunner proved that a Paint could rival and even best a Quarter Horse. When the AQHA repealed the white rule in 2005, he was accepted into the AQHA and registered as Colonel's Smoking Gun. Yes, that one stallion had three official names: Gunner, Colonels Smokingun, AND Colonels Smoking Gun! As a popular, double-registered, world champion stallion, he was an extremely valuable horse. He earned his owners, Tim and Collen McQuay, more than $5,000,000 in his lifetime. The irony is that the excessive white on his head did cause a serious defect. He was deaf! The same is true for all of his progeny with similar facial markings. The connection between excessive white on the head and deafness is now well known. It's caused by a mutation that limits the distribution of pigment and hinders embryonic development, thankfully not fatally. An equine geneticist can even tell you the specific allele and locus where the unfortunate mutation occurred. However, Gunner proved that his disability didn't matter. He pwned horses with perfect hearing! You may notice that horses with so much white on their faces also have floppy ears. That's because they never fully developed the muscles that control their ears because they never needed them, and the useless ears just flop around as a result. But to finally answer your question, the horse in this video may be a Quarter Horse registered with the AQHA, a Paint Horse registered with the APHA, or both simultaneously!

I'm pretty sure he is a quarter horse

Could be by Spook's Gotta Gun, too.

Ich reite auch western😇

Welches pferd hast du?

I looks to me like Rollkur from Dressage.

i dont like it neither

I don't like how he keeps constant pressure on that nasty bit with the first horse when he backs up! Poor horse!

If you don't understand the sport, instead of saying "I hate how..." ask "Why does..." You'll sound a lot more educated.

Everyone has an oppinion ans is entitled to it but I have seen horses trained to have this head set humanely. I am a reiner

Jordan Savioli Of course you're a reiner!! Only a reiner would look at a horse with his head hanging inches from the ground like he's sick or in pain and see that as acceptable! I have seen reining horses with normal/natural head sets and they did just as well as the horses with their heads hanging, they did better IMO! Just because a judge or an industry says something is right doesn't make it so! I would also like to know your definition of 'humane' training, I'm sure many abusive trainers would say their training is humane without hesitation. Saying something is humane doesn't make it so.