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Flipping over: Nice looking horse, scary behavior Posted: 25 Oct 2009 01:44 PM PDT This is a scary video, and the story behind it is that the horse was bought from a KY trainer who assured the new owners (mom and daughter) that the horse could go to the upper levels of eventing. This is footage of the first show, daughter riding. Quite sensibly the horse is no longer being ridden. With the understanding that there's little to go on in this video, anyone care to guess what is happening with this horse? Amazing that this young girl landed on her feet -- very athletic... My only observation is that the loin connection looks very weak (or else he's just racing thin and it's an optical illusion. His back may not be able to comfortably support a rider, but then that's probably true of a lot of horses who don't flip over in protest. He doesn't look particularly overwhelmed by the show environment, but he is a young horse. Even so, I'm not sure what you do with a horse who exhibits this kind of behavior. The owners seems thoughtful and reasonable, best of luck to them in solving this.

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