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[perchie.girl]

Quote: What I didnt like was the use of the Flying W.... Crazy cruel.... Or Trip wires.... for scenes where the horse needed to fall.

I nearly 100 horses died in the Ben Hur scenes.... As well a stunt man. 1959

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

Ahh yes, I remember those summer days bare back riding and getting off my horse looking like I'd wet myself with about a pound of horse hair stuck to my backside.

I also still to this day I'm getting mad at the TV whenever they have a chase on horseback and the horse is just loping along. I'm yelling 'That isn't a gallop! Give that horse it's head ya bunch of pansies!' My poor husband just shakes his head at me.

But growing up with westerns on TV was far better than some of the nonsense that they show now and call it entertainment.

Spent alot of hours riding in shorts and cowboy boots Bareback.... I could grab mane and swing up too. Up to about sixteen hands.

degb

 

[microchick]

Me too.

Luckily my little App/Morgan mix was short enough that I could just grab a hold of a handful of mane and jump up to lie across her back. From that point on all I had to do was swing a leg over and I was good to go.

I can still hear my dad bawling me out for riding in shorts and barefooted. I'd go in and get my cowboy boots on and still be wearing the shorts. I was bad, but those were fun times. Even when I was riding up a steep ridge and a big cock pheasant flew up under my horse's chin. She reared and I slid off her rump slicker than snot right on my backside. I managed to keep hold of the rein or I'd have been walking home.

Looking back it's a wonder I didn't break a lot of bones, lol.

 

[Beer can]

 

[Beer can]

 

[perchie.girl]

Me too.

Luckily my little App/Morgan mix was short enough that I could just grab a hold of a handful of mane and jump up to lie across her back. From that point on all I had to do was swing a leg over and I was good to go.

I can still hear my dad bawling me out for riding in shorts and barefooted. I'd go in and get my cowboy boots on and still be wearing the shorts. I was bad, but those were fun times. Even when I was riding up a steep ridge and a big cock pheasant flew up under my horse's chin. She reared and I slid off her rump slicker than snot right on my backside. I managed to keep hold of the rein or I'd have been walking home.

Looking back it's a wonder I didn't break a lot of bones, lol.

rode in flip flops too. no one to yell at me.... LOL. The riding part is easy peasy its the walking on foot leading a thousand pounds on cookie cutter hoofies

The mare i have now weights 2000 pounds never been shod thank goodness. One day I was in my tennis shoes (the kind for riding) and she causally set a hoof on my toe and stood on it... Thank goodness the shoes were too big. I curled my toes and tried to shove her off me.... but she was too close... I tried hitting her with my fore arm and fist yelling Get Off with each hit.... she just wiggled her lip as if to say Oh do that again.... Which set me into a fit of laughter... she eventually moved... I never had a horse that moved IN to pressure before....

had to rethihk some of my training strategies....

deb

 

[bruceha2000]

Ahh yes, I remember those summer days bare back riding and getting off my horse looking like I'd wet myself with about a pound of horse hair stuck to my backside.

I also still to this day I'm getting mad at the TV whenever they have a chase on horseback and the horse is just loping along. I'm yelling 'That isn't a gallop! Give that horse it's head ya bunch of pansies!' My poor husband just shakes his head at me.

But growing up with westerns on TV was far better than some of the nonsense that they show now and call it entertainment.

And didn't you LOVE how the "white hats" could shoot while galloping and wing the "black hat" in the arm causing him to fall off his horse? LOL

 

[microchick]

And didn't you LOVE how the "white hats" could shoot while galloping and wing the "black hat" in the arm causing him to fall off his horse? LOL

You bet. I loved how they shot an Indian off his horse at a full run over rough ground with a Colt .45 revolver. They were usually trailing the poor Apache/Commanche/Lakota Sioux by a good half mile.

Man, I wish I could shoot that good!

Perchi.GIrl my horse used to do that to my dad whenever he was trying to trim her hooves for me. Poor man had an Army career of horses stomping on his feet only to have my horse add to the damage. Plus she would lean on him whenever he lifted her foot to rasp. I couldn't help but laugh at the sight, not so much of her stomping on his feet but him trying to put his shoulder into hers and pushing back like a big reverse tug of war.

At least she wasn't a big Percheron. Dad was only 5'7" tall. That would have been worth the price of admission to see if she had been.

Beer Can, nice looking cockerel. What kind is he?

 

[Bunnylady]

I nearly 100 horses died in the Ben Hur scenes.... As well a stunt man. 1959

deb

A little research says that there was only one stuntman slightly injured in the filming of the racing scenes of the 1959 version of Ben Hur, and fewer than 80 horses were used in shooting it, so I don't think 100 could have died.

The carnage in the earlier version of Ben Hur (1926?) is hard to document; the carelessness about animal (and possibly human) life may have been somewhat downplayed at the time, and exaggerated in the years since.

The mare i have now weights 2000 pounds never been shod thank goodness. One day I was in my tennis shoes (the kind for riding) and she causally set a hoof on my toe and stood on it... Thank goodness the shoes were too big. I curled my toes and tried to shove her off me.... but she was too close... I tried hitting her with my fore arm and fist yelling Get Off with each hit.... she just wiggled her lip as if to say Oh do that again.... Which set me into a fit of laughter... she eventually moved... I never had a horse that moved IN to pressure before....

had to rethihk some of my training strategies....

deb

I'm told that's normal for very green/young horses; I know I've had a devil of a time getting Syd to stop "hugging" me when she feels nervous, and Blondie has only recently learned to move away from me when I try to squeeze past her in the trailer, and not smash me between her and the wall.

 

[chickadoodles]

Oh ya I forgot The Big Valley we watched that all the time and we loved Barbara S.