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Sam and Si need all the horsepower they can muster to keep up with a speedy racehorse this week on Slo Mo. Luckily they've got Duncan Barbour on hand with his incredible 'VampyreBATT' and Mark Johnston's racehorse, Street Artist, skillfully ridden by jockey Andrew Bacon. Together they capture one of the most iconic slow motion subjects.
Duncan Barbour is an expert all-terrain driver. Please don't try this at home!
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[@bbcearth]

Learn more about one of the fastest animals on land with BBC Earth’s Fact Files 🐎 www.bbcearth.com/factfiles/animals/mammals/horse

[@NighttellerLegends]

As an animator this is very essential in learning the gallop as well as watching the stretch and squish

[@longlivebread]

I feel like most of these views are from animators tbh XD

[@jrfk3d]

yeah (:

[@panloon7776]

Same... though I'm making a physical animated model

[@virixs566]

I need those damn animators to perfect the horse animations for the Steel Ball Run adaptation. XD

[@skylarkmystique2702]

That’s why I’m here too haha

[@jameswest8280]

The fact the all 4 feet leave the ground had been debated for centuries, until photography proved it in 1872.

[@diane4549]

On a old show, called Death Valley Days, they had the man who originally filmed a galloping horse in slow motion. This man had a bet with another man, that the horse's legs all left the ground all at one time. The other fella said they didn't. Needless to say, the photographer won!

[@tomoakhill8825]

Yes. Leland Stanford, governor of California, United States Senator, and founder of Stanford University. In 1872, Stanford commissioned the photographer Eadweard Muybridge to undertake scientific studies of the horse at a gallop. Images of the horse's hooves were captured. Stanford wanted to determine if the horses ever had all four hooves off the ground at the same time during the gallop. (They did.) The result was the proto-motion picture "Sallie Gardner at a Gallop (1878)". This was a series of 11 photographs, taken by separate still cameras. When viewed in a "flip book" they give a moving picture of the horse galloping. Thomas Edison contacted Muybridge to get technical information. From this Edison invented the motion picture camera.

[@siewheilou399]

​@@tomoakhill8825 A con job by Thomas Edison, he only worked out the sprocket syatem of the Kinetograpg, he stole, robbed, copied the othet technologies, and told the world he invented movie.

[@AngelWingsTVdavcs]

Such a beautiful horse! And the slow motion captures the beauty even further!

[@kropotkinnie]

uhrelated, but those are some of the gentlest hands i have seen on a jockey. usually in gallop almost every racehorse i see has intense pain face and a gaping mouth. while this baby has a couple signs of discomfort, it's far from the big pain face, and in slowmo you can see how much the jockey moves their hands to work with the neck of the horse, so kudos there

[@bellalee27]

Aww I love horses. Such strong, beautiful animals

[@marinairathemagnificent]

Whats happening with my dudes feet? That ain't proper riding position! 1:15

[@Retired20244]

In Jockey Position we often ride with our toes down, this shot is an extreme example, but this helps better with our position and balance when we have short stirrups in two point, as we grip with our knees turned inwards and take a hold with a bridged rein, compared to gripping with your lower leg and having a rein in each had like English. When riding Racehorses, I honestly keep far less of my foot in the Stirrup, especially riding Racehorses over jumps, hurdles and fences, I would rather lose a stirrup than have a TB dodge to the side, I lose my balance and have my foot stuck in the stirrup after being shoved in there. But some of the best most experienced jockeys have much of their foot in the Stirrup, that's how they were taught in the day, and they're very clearly doing something right. Keep in mind in this shot he's also changing from the standing position to riding a finish, where the Jockey crouches down for more aerodynamics to "Push" the horse on with his arms while pushing with his legs, this is what can also cause the toes to point down. There is nothing wrong with this in this discpline, our saddles, stirrups and entire way of holding a horse is far different. At 0:35 you can see his foot position is far less extreme, but also not heels pointing down, which is incorrect for the Jockey Position.

[@markmahnken6409]

I want to know why he was pulling backward on the reins each stride.

[@warriormaiden9829]

​@@markmahnken6409 It's to keep constant contact with the horse. The horse's head and neck moves back and forth as they take each stride, which means the rider's hands need to move with them. If the rider didn't, the reins would go completely slack and then snap back hard at the end. For a visual demonstration, tie a long string around your toe and hold the ends. Bring the string to a gentle contact so you can feel it under your toe. Start bouncing your foot, and move your hands with it so you keep that same tension the entire time. (Works best if your legs are crossed.) Once you've held a solid rhythm for about 30 seconds, stop moving just your hands. You'll start feeling those harder bounces.

[@ashdog9235]

Thank you needed this in an argument concerning Pokémon

[@margotrosendorn6371]

I bet that colt had a fun day showing off and getting attention from the crew.

[@SUSHILKUMAR-vk4ip]

1:09 mustang logo

[@TimpBizkit]

I'd love to see how fast they can run with no rider

[@just_a_horse_life]

POV: you slowed it down even more

[@thj_5046]

oh this is a beautiful reference for animation im glad i finally found a well lit recording and not some low quality blurry clip off of tiktok or whatever

[@stirnarai]

Beautiful,beautiful,beautiful!!!

[@wewhofly]

They should use this cooling down technique for Marathon runners coming across the line on the BBC after London Marathons. A bucket of water across their backs instead of the blunt advertiser's towel.....! I think enough athletes would have enough energy left to throw a punch....... *whistle*

[@jaiheheee]

this helped me a lot with drawing a still life of a horse running! thanks so much!

[@iSOBigD]

It would just be tough and dangerous to do. You'd have to spend lots of time just training the horse to run in a straight line along side a vehicle on command without running away or into it.

[@lindamerrill1694]

this would be so much more beautiful without the bit in the horses mouth .........

[@zidanjkhan]

Who's here for drawing purpose?

[@warriormaiden9829]

Another great place to learn for drawing is FEI livestreams! Check them out! :)

[@MyMurphysLaw]

Such an amazing animal!

[@mdaziz-ep3wz]

Horse my happiness ❤❤

[@luisalejandrohernandezmaya254]

Hurry up horse! You are going too slow!

[@LesterHolmes-bm4qn]

Just eating up the ground....

[@heidimcneil2869]

There fast I'm as.fast as a horse!🐴🐎🐎🐎

[@andrelopez6483]

Background music used?

[@genxer74]

the slow mo is so chopped up you can't really get into it.

[@lightingworld]

Amazing.

[@poppyorangeflower]

such an incredible animal look at those hindquarters

[@MellowRaccoon]

so cool

[@DodgerDaDog]

0:19 My friends:It's swishing it's tail ready to run Me:It is gallop and its about to 💩

[@elizabetesilva7929]

lindo cavalo!!!!!!!!!

[@rapturesrevenge]

The music used in the head-on sequence is also used in a lot of true crime shows, I think mainly in Forensic Files, and I think the creator of Plague Inc used it as well. I've watched this many times (I'm an artist) and I just noticed it.

[@gr8sword97]

If Muybridge lived to see this he’d have a heart attack on the spot

[@malinateyou]

I watched wanting to know the pattern of the footfalls, what surprised me most is that in the side view the footfall was LF, RF, LR, RR. When filming from the front, the pattern was RF, LF, RR, LR. Do horses alter the footfall pattern at different times or speeds? Now I'm really curious?

[@ssaayaka]

idk if i have this right, but when i was learning how to ride, the footfall depended on which hoof the horse was starting from and which way the rider was making it turn.

[@warriormaiden9829]

This may be a mite late, but yes. It's called a lead change. It's much easier to see at slower speeds, but it does happen at even the fastest gallop. You can actually see it happen in the slo-mo of the Maximum Security controversy. It's most often used to help with turns (as cross cantering a turn can feel odd to the horse) or to avoid clipping/getting clipped by another horse when in close quarters. The cue for it at the canter is a pick-up of the inside rein and a shift back of the outside foot. (So if you want a left lead canter, you'd do left rein/right foot.) The reason the OUTSIDE foot is used is because that is the foot the horse starts on. Using the left lead again, it's right hind, left hind/right front simultaneously, and then left front striking the ground. For racing Thoroughbreds, the signal is as subtle as a weight shift to one side or the other. Hope this helped clear things up! :)

[@Versada42]

It could've been a lead change

[@MuhammadEgypt]

How slow is that slow motion?

[@markmahnken6409]

Why was the jockey pulling backward on the reins each stride?

[@yaad2226]

yo mamaaaaaaaaa

[@oc_george]

What’s the music at 1:20

[@stevemitchell7981]

He is beautiful.

[@MayurKhade93]

Rice srike,horse 🐎

[@Grizzlyne]

I agrée with bamfife

[@Vent_Acc_tohelp]

Amazing 🥰

[@jupiter8544]

Superb.

[@bamfyfe]

Would love to see this without any gear and rider on the horse : )

[@warriormaiden9829]

Might be able to pull it off with a double long-line like you see in driving training...🤔

[@bamfyfe]

But still very beautiful.

[@chanskichanski7874]

So beautiful!!

[@Grizzlyne]

Sorry : I agree with bamfyfe

[@lillie1423]

Alot of horse racing is abusive but not this person

[@henrietta9394]

Actually a lot of it isn’t abuse, it’s a very small minority that is. It’s stereotypes like this that are ruining the sport for everyone…

[@ThatBuckskinPony]

@@henrietta9394 no

[@moaningpheromones]

next video: slowmo miniature pony. slowmo woman throws drink in my face.