A Judge's Perspective: 2017 AQHA Select Western Horsemanship World Champion

[@sierralabranche2657]

Great rider and horse pairing. Good example of western horsemanship and a ride to aspire to.

[@cathleencaratan3373]

It’s no longer a wonder why AQHA has shut off comments to their more recent videos after reading some of the nastiness here.

[@lillycheek322]

Omg she is not a bad rider she is probably better than all of you

[@katharineforsyth1870]

Extended lope?? Where???? There's no speed or length change in that stride. It looks broken and unnatural.

[@sierralabranche2657]

The lope is supposed to be low and slow. It takes muscle in a horse to do it that slow.

[@Yasmin-vz9mj]

😂 it does

[@GreyGhostBreyers]

@@sierralabranche2657 not an excuse for the horse to look kind of crippled

[@chfgirl2481]

Courage in an extended trot?? Ummmmmmmm, NOT! This poor horse never moved faster than an ugly crawl. It is a sin how these show horses have been destroyed, and stripped of natural gaits!

[@Britty0189]

Horse is nice, rider.. no.

[@crking685]

Rider is so stiff and wrong curve to her back, stiff neck, stiff arms

[@AnnaMiller-iy6qi]

This is select. Over 50yr old riders. They aren’t gonna have THE best position

[@shellyedson]

No control of her left foot whatsoever. Toes and ankles cranked out, it's flapping all over the place. Right foot was a little better. I would expect a whole lot more from riders on this level. I would hate to see the other exhibitors performances if this is the world champion.

[@Britty0189]

Shelly Edson I agree with that left foot, my eye kept getting drawn I that ugly position. These are the select riders so.. 🤷‍♀️

[@kathyharper7187]

But she always wins 🤔

[@johnnadrazetic7674]

That horse looks lame and miserable.

[@nolanjuelson4891]

Johnna Drazetic why do you have to be negative, I don’t see anything wrong with the horse

[@katharineforsyth1870]

N+izzati there's nothing negative about it. Pointing out obvious issues and flaws in someone's training isn't negative. It's necessary. Apparently you don't care about the welfare of the horse.

[@victoriaferrioli9104]

@@katharineforsyth1870 let's see you do western pleasure and then we'll talk