05-01-2010, 07:02 PM
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Oh stop. Did you see any welts on the horses hide walking him to the finish line? I didn't.
I ride. My father was a jockey for a time down at Hialeah before he married my mom. He taught me how to ride and he taught me about proper "stick handling" on the final stretch. A good horseman never uses the whip as an instrument of pain but as an extension of his / her arm.
When I rode regularly I always carried a whip or crop, and not once have I raised a welt on the animal. It's a tool like horse shoes and saddles and bits. In fact, the bit in it's mouth is the most cruel piece of equipment.
That horse ran willingly for Calvin.
I ride. My father was a jockey for a time down at Hialeah before he married my mom. He taught me how to ride and he taught me about proper "stick handling" on the final stretch. A good horseman never uses the whip as an instrument of pain but as an extension of his / her arm.
When I rode regularly I always carried a whip or crop, and not once have I raised a welt on the animal. It's a tool like horse shoes and saddles and bits. In fact, the bit in it's mouth is the most cruel piece of equipment.
That horse ran willingly for Calvin.
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